The city's Department of Buildings and its Department of Investigation announced the arrests Oct. 25 and said one of the people arrested is a construction company owner charged with possessing 32 fraudulent scaffold certification cards he had made.
The agency also is drafting amendments to its regulations to adapt to OSHA's crane operator accreditation requirement by Nov. 10, 2014.
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.
The subsidiary of Tyco International is also celebrating 80 years of operation and its role in helping to safeguard industrial, military, and fire service customers around the world.
OSHA renewed it for two additional years.
The discovery raises the number of fatalities to four in the partial collapse of a five-story parking garage being built in Doral for Miami Dade College.
Licensed design professionals can submit plans and obtain permits electronically for home renovations, office makeovers, façade repairs, etc.
CPWR, the Center for Construction Research and Training, unveiled its new design Oct. 4.
The recipients are attending community colleges coast to coast. The distribution giant also has designated October as "Skilled Trades Awareness Month."
After a company in Wisconsin failed to follow safety guidelines when repairing a shredder, it received 2 willful violations.
Every day, more than 500 people go to the hospital because of a ladder-related accident. Don’t be one of them.
Joining 24 existing OSHA Training Institute Education Centers, the four are joining this program at a time of record demand, Dr. David Michaels said.
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.
Signed Sept. 21 by Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie and OSHA Regional Administrator Ken Nishiyama Atha, the pact includes benchmarks for the state agency, including increasing state inspections.
A company in Wisconsin was fined $108,500 for failing to provide adequate protection in trenches.
BLS released its 2011 summary of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data on Sept. 20. Deaths in private construction declined for the fourth consecutive year.
A contractor in New York receives a citation alleging seven violations, including one classified as willful.
Washington is the only state where workers pay a substantial portion of premiums. Workers will pay about 24 percent of the premiums in 2013.
A construction superintendent at a Brooklyn site was monitoring more than legal limit of sites when one worker was killed and another injured.