It is still a very dangerous business, and even with our best efforts, confined space accidents are still occurring.
Safety and health professionals who also have security and environmental responsibility may want to stay a while: Chicago’s McCormick Place plays host to ASIS, Safety Congress, and WEFTEC conferences in a three-week span of September and October.
A worker died in April 2012 in Portsmouth, N.H., when a plastic keg exploded as he was using a compressed air line to purge liquid from it.
CPWR, the Center for Construction Research and Training, unveiled its new design Oct. 4.
Here's your chance to get an early look at new products being exhibited at the Orlando conference.
Of course, workers cannot be properly protected from exposure hazards if they are not regularly using the monitors intended to detect the hazard.
If source sound levels increase for any reason, it is very simple to add a second layer of flexible sound curtain to an existing one or even to augment an existing rigid wall.
NSC describes the Safety Trail in the central aisle of the expo as "a visual journey through corridors of safety milestones from the last century."
Slapped with $68,500 in violations, an Ohio company failed to sufficiently protect workers from cave-ins.
A company in Wisconsin was fined $108,500 for failing to provide adequate protection in trenches.
Taking steps to strengthen safety standards in the wind industry, OSHA employees participated in a two-day training program.
They included personnel from Coast Guard Training Center Cape May (N.J.) and state and local emergency responders .
The fall protection market in North America will accelerate thanks to strong enforcement and will reach $670.5 million in 2017, according to a new Frost & Sullivan report.
Wind turbines and turbine blades are growing larger, as well. The new DOE report says about $14 billion of wind capacity was added in the United States in 2011.
Confined space training for farms is essential.
The three busiest weeks on the calendar of the Texas Engineeing Extension Service are coming up this month.
The Aug. 21 event in Arlington, Va., comes as OSHA is nearing completion of a confined spaces rule for construction and Cal/OSHA has launched a special emphasis program, ISEA President Dan Shipp noted.
OSHA, the Southern Nevada Water Authority, and the contractor are investigating the June 11 death of the victim, identified by KLAS-TV as Thomas Turner, 44.
OSHA found that emergency exit access from a receiving and storage area was obstructed by the storage of pallets containing merchandise and equipment.
Coal mines were issued 254 citations, 19 orders, and one safeguard, and metal/nonmetal operations were issued 52 citations and nine orders.