"Union Pacific and the entire rail industry urge Gov. Scott Walker to veto this attempt to repeal Wisconsin's railroad trespass law and help keep Wisconsin citizens and our employees safe," Donna Kush, vice president public affairs for UP’s northern region, wrote in a July 10 op-ed for the Wisconsin State Journal.
The November 2014 deaths of four workers at a faclity in La Porte, Texas, triggered a second inspection from OSHA.
HB&G Building Products Inc. has been cited for 15 serious violations, the agency announced.
The safety board said in a letter that Amtrak should install crash-and-fire-protected audio and image recorders in the cabs of all of its trains.
Employees installed 55,400 cross ties and 217,000 feet of rail, surfaced more than 100 miles of track, and restored and performed maintenance on several bridges and road crossings during the 2015 Maintenance Jamboree.
Until Oct. 2, a "temporary enforcement period" is in effect: OSHA will not issue citations to employers who make good faith efforts to comply with the new standard.
The article, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, says three out of four adults favor raising the age to 21.
Entresto tablets have been approved for the treatment of heart failure.
The Thurston County Public Health and Social Services Department reports three cases with a possible connection to the motel have been confirmed within the past month.
The International Fire Code requires a trained crowd manager to be present at an event with 1,000 or more people and one crowd manager per 250 attendees.
The proposed changes would require faster notification following pipeline accidents and other regulatory adjustments and updates.
The program will safeguard its employees better against assaults, after a patient assaulted a nurse at the Brooklyn facility in 2014, OSHA announced.
Gov. Mary Fallin has signed State Senate Bill 262, which requires school districts in the state to provide training on workplace safety and health to students in grades 7 through 12.
WHO's announcement said the agency is already working on some of the recommendations, including the development of the global health emergency workforce and a contingency fund to ensure needed resources are available to mount an initial response.
The Saskatchewan Environment Ministry reported July 6 that there have been 574 wildfires during this fire season -- more than twice as many as the 205 at the same point last year.