Taking steps to strengthen safety standards in the wind industry, OSHA employees participated in a two-day training program.
ADOSH finds fault with US Airways after a baggage handler died in a conveyor belt accident.
"We believe that by weaving the lessons learned from Fukushima into nearly all of our regulatory activities, we are ensuring their long-term sustainability," NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane said Sept. 17.
Washington is the only state where workers pay a substantial portion of premiums. Workers will pay about 24 percent of the premiums in 2013.
A study published in the September issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine evaluated this among workers in the Detroit area, which was hit hard in the recent recession.
Experts will speak about a host of safety and salvage issues, including cargo theft and robbery in Latin America, human factors in maritime accidents and claims, and piracy.
Associated General Contractors of America announced it will offer the training in eight locations next year thanks to its $120,000 grant.
Omega Protein of Moss Point, Miss. faces more than $79,000 in fines following the death of an employee in April.
OSHA orders Dana Holding Corp. to pay an employee turned whistleblower nearly $275,000 in lost wages and compensation.
Raul Recarey will lead the state's efforts to establish a secure, accurate exchange of electronic health information.
Four people, including Rachel Weintraub, director of Product Safety and senior counsel for the Consumer Federation of America, received them last week.
A construction superintendent at a Brooklyn site was monitoring more than legal limit of sites when one worker was killed and another injured.
They included personnel from Coast Guard Training Center Cape May (N.J.) and state and local emergency responders .
FMCSA reported it halted the company's operations after a review of the company’s operations uncovered extensive hours of service violations.
After an OSHA investigation, Anogla Pork received no citations in response to employee complaints.
The product's webbing can weaken, posing an unrecognized fall risk to users, according to the latest Rapex recalls report, which said one fatality associated with this product has been reported.
The one-hour webinar on Sept. 18 is part of a series presented by CDC, the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the American Public Health Association.