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BP Touts Microsubs' Potential for Spotting Problems

BP is working with manufacturer Planet Ocean, the Marine Robotics Innovation Centre at the UK's National Oceanography Centre, and the Scottish Association of Marine Science to optimize the microsub technology before starting the first trial in the North Sea in December.

NHTSA Begins Car Safety Bus Tour

The tour is intended to raise public awareness of the Takata airbag recall, vehicle recalls and how to search for them using NHTSA's Recalls Look-Up Tool, as well as tire maintenance, child safety seats, and heatstroke when children are left in hot cars.

Tonawanda Coke Cited After Employee Dies While Servicing Elevator

OSHA says that proper safety procedures and training would have prevented the accident.



Alpha Natural Resources' Reorganization Plan Approved

The company's announcement said "Upon emergence, Alpha is expected to operate as a privately held company, positioned well to satisfy its environmental obligations on an ongoing basis."

163rd California State Fair Under Way

Food and thrill ride safety and fairgoers' security will be paramount throughout the fair. The new entertainment options this year include a high dive show where divers jump from an 80-foot platform into a pool of water below during three daily shows.

HHS Takes More Steps to Address Opioid Crisis

"The opioid epidemic is one of the most pressing public health issues in the United States. More Americans now die from drug overdoses than car crashes, and these overdoses have hit families from every walk of life and across our entire nation," said Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell. "At HHS, we are helping to lead the nationwide effort to address the opioid epidemic by taking a targeted approach focused on prevention, treatment, and intervention."

Amerway Cited Again for Overexposing Employees to Lead Hazards

Amerway Cited Again for Overexposing Employees to Lead Hazards

The company was also cited for failing to provide respiratory protection.

FMCSA said it will consider a crash non-preventable if the commercial motor vehicle was hit by a motorist who was convicted of one of these offenses, or a related offense: DUI, driving the wrong direction, striking the CMV in the rear, or striking the CMV while it was legally stopped.

FMCSA Seeks Comments on Crash Preventability Demonstration Program

FMCSA said it will consider a crash non-preventable if the commercial motor vehicle was hit by a motorist who was convicted of one of these offenses, or a related offense: DUI, driving the wrong direction, striking the CMV in the rear, or striking the CMV while it was legally stopped.

FAA Policy Encourages Voluntary Safety Equipment Installation

FAA Policy Encourages Voluntary Safety Equipment Installation

The new policy is intended for general aviation aircraft.

Multiple Hazards Found at Missouri Auto Parts Manufacturing Facility

13 serious and one other-than-serious violation were found.

Pediatric Health Care Provider Cited for Failing to Protect Workers from Sexual Assault

Epic Health has been fined $98K after an investigation.

Absorbable Stent Approved for Coronary Heart Disease Treatment

Coronary heart disease kills about 370,000 Americans each year, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Border agents in Scotland have confiscated more than 15,000 hoverboards that have been tested and found to be unsafe, authorities said Dec. 3.

More Than 500,000 Hoverboards Recalled

Made in China, they've been recalled by eight manufacturers or importers, one retail store, and one online retailer because of the risk they can overheat and catch fire.

MSHA Says No Mines are Eligible for a Patterns of Violations Notice

For the first time since 2010, none of the mines meets the criteria.

Zika virus is transmitted to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito, the mosquitoes that alos spread dengue and chikungunya viruses.

NIH to Monitor Zika Exposure Among U.S. Olympic Committee Personnel

Some athletes, coaches, and other USOC staffers attending the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Brazil next month will be monitored in a study funded by NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

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