The Beijing meeting takes place April 13-18, and U.S. agencies are sponsoring a public meeting March 16 to take comments on the agenda items.
The agreement resolves charges by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's staff that GE knowingly failed to report defects and an unreasonable risk of serious injury from two models of its Profile freestanding dual-fuel ranges and some models of Profile and Monogram dishwashers.
The Pullman National Monument is the site of the town built by George Mortimer Pullman's Pullman Palace Car Company to house railcar manufacturing workers and their families. Amid the Pullman workers' crippling strike of 1894, Congress enacted a law making Labor Day a federal holiday.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx joined NHTSA in calling on Congress to pass legislation.
The Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union announced they have a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract covering workers at all 29 West Coast ports.
The funds will expand voluntary, evidence-based home visiting services.
The American Heart Association posted a news release about it Feb. 19, saying "researchers found a link between marijuana use and stroke in a total of 64 stroke patients."
The funds will be used to address flood damage in 26 states, as well as Puerto Rico.
NIST has agreed to provide $20 million to create the Community Resilience Center of Excellence at Colorado State University.
A Philadelphia federal judge has ordered restitution and barred defendants as fiduciaries and service providers.
The DOT agency has judged Sorbon Transport, Inc. to be an imminent hazard to public safety.
OSHA has proposed fines of $63K for 1 repeated and 8 serious violations.
More than 1 million workers participated in last year's stand-down, and the partner organizations are hoping to have stand-downs staged in all 50 states and around the world during May 4-15.
"Significant crystalline silica exposure during manufacturing, finishing, and installing natural and manufactured stone countertops" are a health hazard, the agencies' hazard alert warns.
After integrating the acquired distributor Safety Solutions, Inc. during 2014, Grainger will add 14 more shoemobiles this year and as many again next year, company leaders said.