OSHA intends to establish a SBREFA panel in October 2016 as it works to develop a comprehensive combustible dust standard for general industry.
"Our government is following through on a commitment made in January 2016 to stop issuing new conditional registrations for pesticides. Moving forward, Canadians can be reassured that all pesticide registration decisions will be made with a consistent and high level of scientific and public scrutiny," said Minister of Health Jane Philpott.
"Employers should not wait for an OSHA inspection to identify fire, explosion, and electric shock hazards as well as those associated with flammable and combustible chemicals in the workplace," said Eugene Stewart, OSHA's area director in the Jackson Office.
The sorting facility also had inoperable fire doors, according to the agency.
The advisory circular does not create new requirements, but instead describes how they apply to extraction at federally obligated airports.
Evergreen Nursery has been cited for 18 serious violations.
Health and safety managers at a military facility requested NIOSH's help.
Waves as high as 60 feet have buffeted one of the search ships, measuring almost from the ship's waterline to the top of its mast, according to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which now expects to complete the examination of the expanded search area in July or August.
Why the drop in fatalities has occurred and what can be done to make sure the trend continues are still to be determined, said Scott Schneider, director of Occupational Safety and Health for the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America.
BBC News reported that the river had risen some 15 feet above its normal level, and that heavy rains across Europe have killed at least 10 people, most of them in Germany.
Caroline Smith DeWaal, the International Food Safety Policy Manager on the International Affairs Staff at FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, reported it is only the second arrangement of this type; the first one was signed in December 2012 between FDA and New Zealand's food safety agency.
The agency has asked the food industry to reduce sodium in processed and commercially prepared food.
W.S. Steel Erection faces $175,700 in proposed fines.
Little "ooops!" add up to big future problems.
The agency has issued 17 serious violations and $105,000 in penalties for exposures at Alstom's Hornell, N.Y., plant.