There are 24 official hotels for this year's National Safety Council Congress & Expo. Smart Meetings magazine highlighted green initiatives by five of them, as well as by the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
The Oct. 17 annual meeting of the members of the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust should be particularly interesting because police have not solved the case of deliberate contamination of saline solution given to patients at its main hospital, named Stepping Hill.
The two victims were a 37-year-old man and an 86-year-old man, both from Kern County. The state's latest update shows 93 human cases this year in 18 counties.
Dr. Craig Conover, the state's chief epidemiologist, was appointed Sept. 30 by Gov. Pat Quinn.
OSHA's inspections were initiated under a regional emphasis program aimed at preventing injuries and deaths caused by falls. Proposed penalties total $164,120.
"As the global population grows, there will be even more critical need for protection materials to keep people safe and to protect the environment, structures and critical processes," said Thomas G. Powell, president of DuPont Protection Technologies.
Traumatic brain injuries rose from 153,375 in 2001 to 248,418 in 2009, said the report.
The company’s iXL Learning System™ won the 10th award given by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's Product Design Technical Group, HFES announced Oct. 3.
Seven serious violations involve failing to provide protection from trip and fall hazards, ensure electrical cords are not spliced, and ensure industrial machines were properly guarded.
"The most common causes of home fires include cooking, heating, electrical malfunction, smoking materials, and candles,” said FEMA Regional Administrator Ken Murphy.
Its new book contains case studies from 11 companies in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Botswana, South Africa, and Germany.
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a secure, online CSAT Site Security Plan tool.
When OSHA withdrew its proposed reinterpretation of “feasible administrative or engineering controls” to prevent hearing loss, it promised to convene a stakeholder meeting. That meeting will take place Nov. 3.
Both resulted from lessons learned in one of the greatest sea rescues on record: the Oct. 4-5, 1980, rescue of all 524 passengers and crew members from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Alaska.
OSHA issued seven serious safety and health violations following the April death of a worker who was ejected from an aerial lift after it was struck by a falling tree.
Young men, ages 21–34, made up only 11 percent of the U.S. population in 2010, yet were responsible for 32 percent of all episodes of drinking and driving.
"This report shows us we are doing a great job, but there are things we can and will do better,” said FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt.