The president's Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order will require that new federal contractors with contracts valued at more than $500,000 disclose labor law violations for the previous three years. The National Association of Manufacturers responded that this is "a dangerous game for our President to be playing with federal contracts."
The proposal aims to simplify the process and improve consistency, with an emphasis on more serious conditions.
Aug. 1 is the first compliance date for the new rule that lowers the allowable exposure of coal miners to respirable coal mine dust; some parts of the rule are being phased in for the next two years.
Visitors can sign in to its website for access to 10 from this year’s Conference & Expo.
Alleged violations at a Chicago store brought a proposed penalty of $110,700.
The citations stem from work sites where employees were performing roofing work without fall protection.
OSHA has proposed more than $70,000 in fines against P. Gioioso & Sons Inc. for hazards at a Massachusetts work site.
The local share of the federal grant is $54,340, bringing the total to $543,400.
The new Workplace design solutions document cites steel embeds for guardrail support, embedded roof anchor points, and straps embedded in concrete.
Medicare provides much of the public financing for graduate medical education -- an estimated $9.7 billion in 2012. The report calls for more oversight and accountability.
The September conference will focus on wellness and total worker health.
Effective Aug. 1, subscribers who now receive printed copies no longer will receive them. The publication is available free online.
Seven cars in a Conrail freight train derailed Nov. 30, 2012, in Paulsboro, N.J., with one car carrying vinyl chloride ruptured as a result. New Jersey’s Department of Health reported earlier this year that its surveys of residents showed more than half experienced new or worsening health symptoms after the chemical release.
Advance Lifts made the announcement.
Tugboats completed the tow of the Costa Concordia to the port of Genoa, where it will be scrapped, on July 27.