For the second year in a row, the foundation awarded more than $100,000 in scholarships this year, Treasurer Brian Daly said.
Basic supplies include absorbent compresses, antibiotic treatment, medical exam gloves, and adhesive bandages.
Dr. John Meeker updated an AIHce 2012 audience June 18 about his progress at evaluating commercially available local exhaust ventilation systems for construction welders' use.
The company's announcement is a boost for the shipbuilding industry. All of the vessels will exceed the strictest NOx emission requirements of IMO, and some will have the highest oil spill protection classification.
CDC says the www.smokefree.gov website also received more than 400,000 additional unique visitors because of the "Tips from Former Smokers" national ad campaign.
From Legionnaires’ Disease diagnoses among workers at an auto shredding operation to mail order pharmacy workers exposed to pill dust, students and professionals have explored interesting IH challenges recently.
The company has been issued nine serious safety and health violations for failing to monitor workers' exposure to nickel, chromium, hydrochloric acid, and sulfuric acid while cleaning electroplating tanks.
The opening keynote speaker at this year’s AIHce conference spoke quietly and didn’t say much of anything about industrial hygiene until the end of his talk, but he kept his audience spellbound nonetheless. Juan Enruiquez, co-founder of Synthetic Genomics Inc. and managing director of Excel Venture Management in Boston, discussed genetic engineering and explained how it is already changing businesses around the world.
States that have them saved almost four times more per registered motorcycle than those without these laws, according to the study in CDC's MMWR.
Three honorees worked for six hours to save to Inuit hunters from a life raft that had filled with cold water, while the other pulled seven survivors from a stranded motor launch in stormy conditions.
The new release of its Learning and Safety Management System at Safety 2012 allows users to include information collected in an incident investigation in a multimedia-based training course.
Fires peak over the evening dinner hours in one- and two-family and multifamily residences when cooking fires are prevalent.
Northwestern University's Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine will house the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine, which the Querrey Simpson Charitable Foundation will establish.
The 425-page document is based on recommendations of Witt Associates in the aftermath of the stage equipment collapse during a storm in August 2011 that killed seven people.
The need for blood is being driven by increasingly sophisticated medical and surgical procedures such as cardiovascular and transplant surgery, trauma care, and therapy for cancer and blood disorders.
The agency's chief, Ellen Widess, said the employer disregarded a city stop work order in January 2012, and a carpenter's death followed three days later.
MRA, a nonprofit employers association, announced the opening of this division on June 6.