A major challenge facing the industry is "to develop a workforce that will help us meet our safety mission over the coming decades," NRC Chairman Dale E. Klein said April 15. This photo shows the Oconee 1 reactor in Greenville, S.C.
U.S. House Education and Labor Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., said his committee will hold a hearing next month on workplace injury, illness, and fatality numbers.
The full results of the Falls and Trips Inspection Initiative are now available. HSE Inspectors found that approximately one in three sites and one in four contractors inspected were found to be working below the acceptable standard.
EPA has extended an open invitation to contractors, renovators, remodelers, and anyone who works in the construction trades to attend its free, one-day lead-based paint training program to be held on April 22 at its mid-Atlantic office, 1650 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Special emphasis will be placed on awareness and monitoring of the safety needs of non-English speaking employees.
The ninth annual National Work Zone Awareness Week starts today.
The PPE maker will be integrated into Honeywell Life Safety in a group headed by Roger Fradin, shown here.
Residential and nonresidential specialty trade contracting are weak, but power plants and hospitals are bright spots.
OSHA issued eight willful citations to the company for its failure to provide fall protection in hoisting areas and on low-sloped roofs, failing to cover skylight openings to prevent falls, and not training employees about fall hazards.
The prime-time Telemundo series "Pecados Ajenos" broadcast the first in a series of episodes last night highlighting solutions to common construction falls.
The ANSI/ASSE A10.19-2008 standard is one of a series of voluntary consensus standards that focus on construction and demolition operations.
Until further notice, a Buildings Department inspector must be present on a construction site whenever a tower crane is raised or lowered in New York City.
One of the 10 showed how better sizing of fall harnesses could reduce injury risks of construction workers.
"The same hazard recurring in multiple locations points to a systemic problem with the company's safety program that must be addressed before employees are hurt or killed," said Brenda Gordon, director of OSHA's Braintree Area Office.
A retired contractor complained to city building officials days before the collapse that he believed the crane was not properly braced, but an inspector visited and said it met regulations, the New York Daily News reported Sunday.
This is a victory for the American Society of Safety Engineers, secretariat of the A10.40 standard.
Employers must report a fatal accident within seven days and an injury accident within 14 days to the Commissioner of Labour.
Numerous safety organizations have filed critical comments about the proposed standard, but the big construction union praised it, for the most part.
About one-third of inspected sites were operating so poorly in February that inspectors stopped work there, the agency's chief said.
A workshop on the new standard will be held at the Marriott Anaheim Hotel on April 8, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m; in addition, a training class, Assessment of Vapor Intrusion into Structures on Property Involved in Real Estate Transactions, will now be held on a regular basis throughout the United States.