The Health Industry Distributors Association's "Preparing Your Customers for the Coming Flu Season" one-hour webinar begins at 2 p.m. EST Aug. 25 and will feature Litjen (L.J.) Tan, MS, Ph.D., director of medicine and public health for the American Medical Association.
"This inspection identified a broad range of hazards that, if left uncorrected, expose workers to electric shock, potential falls and 'caught-in' hazards posed by work around machinery," said Bill Fulcher, director of OSHA's Atlanta-East Area Office.
The importance of work-life balance, as well as health and wellness are not generally addressed when it comes to the safety professional, an issue that the Health and Wellness Branch seeks to address, ASSE said.
ComPsych‘s Aug. 15 report says emotional baggage is weighing workers down, to the extent that they may not be able to achieve healthy lifestyle changes.
The railroad industry had pushed for a less expensive mandate, which Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said is provided by the Aug. 24 proposal.
Sept. 22 is the deadline. The agency's request poses several questions, including whether a 1 in 1,000 working lifetime risk for workers should be the target level for recommended exposure
limits for carcinogens or lower targets should be considered.
For aircraft equipped with an ice detection system, the new rule mandates that the system alert the crew every time they need to activate ice protection.
OSHA cited Roma Construction after an inspection of the company's worksite in San Antonio found employees exposed to scaffolding hazards while applying stucco to the exterior of a home. Proposed penalties total $50,820.
Its designers say the robot can enter first and crawl over debris to assess the dangers and give responders information about them before they go into a mine following an accident.
Tests developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology may be used by NFPA as part of revised performance standards for Personal Alert Safety Systems worn by firefighters.
A U.S. university leads each of the four Engineering Research Centers that are sharing $74 million in National Science Foundation funding to address significant societal issues.
Office Depot Inc. is recalling about 34,000 of them that were sold in the United States and Canada after one customer was injured when his finger was pinched by the chair's tilt mechanism.
The North Anna plant located close to the epicenter of the Aug. 23 earthquake declared an Alert, the second-lowest of NRC's four emergency classifications, when it lost electricity from the grid.
The 2011 North American Inspectors Championship took place in Orlando this monthin conjunction with the American Trucking Associations' National Truck Driving Championship.
The company updated an earlier predictive model by analyzing more than 825,000 lost-time claims and 140 million individual medical billing transactions.
The American Burn Association and its Multicenter Trials Group are accepting proposals for it. The award funding is $500,000, and the project is expected to launch by fall 2013.
The willful violations involve a failure to have proper machine lockout/tagout procedures to prevent equipment from unexpectedly starting up and failure to have proper point-of-operation machine guarding in place.