When Keith Cooley, left, ordered a Cease Operation Order to be executed Thursday, it was only the third time the Michigan workplace safety agency had taken this action for a repeated failure to abate hazards.
Failing to follow labeling instructions and allowing two pesticides--Direx 4L and Garlon 4--to enter a Northern California waterway were violations of the federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Clean Water Act, EPA said.
OSHA is proposing $110,000 in penalties for 25 alleged serious safety violations uncovered at CITGO Asphalt Refining Co.'s plant in Savannah, Ga.
Seven repeat offenses for similar fall hazard violations in 2006 and 2007 alone resulted in $100,000 in proposed penalties.
EPA has released the final "Integrated Science Assessment for Oxides of Nitrogen—Health Criteria," the agency's latest evaluation of the scientific literature on the potential adverse human health effects resulting from exposures to oxides of nitrogen, particularly nitrogen dioxide. There are significant new health data, particularly epidemiological studies, since the last scientific review document released in 1993.
Among the new requirements up for discussion, fumigant registrants will have to adopt more stringent worker protection measures and develop training for fumigation handlers and workers to enhance their knowledge and skills and to promote product stewardship.
L&I said the settlement includes a payment, made July 8, of $75,000 to employees who were owed overtime pay for working more than 40 hours a week.
An ANSI standard may be finalized by the end of this year, Connecticut's new penalties for drivers who injure workers take effect Oct. 1, and the Subpart K federal rule will take effect Dec. 1.
An average of one death per week in the industry has the Health and Safety Executive focused on inadequate training and skills.
The final rule requires importers and others to keep records, register, and ensure the security of these materials.
A lack of fall protection equipment and PPE were among the repeat violations OSHA cited.
“Thanks to the hard work of the legislature and representatives of labor and industry, we have enacted one of the nation’s strongest mine safety laws, which completes the work begun following the Quecreek Mine accident,” said Gov. Edward Rendell, signing the new law.
Water provided onboard aircraft through lavatory and galley faucets must meet standards for human consumption, which includes uses such as washing face or hands; brushing teeth; consuming beverages made with onboard water; and drinking the water from galley or lavatory water taps.
Jukka Takala, director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, was among about 50 decision-makers who adopted the Seoul Declaration on Safety and Health at Work last week.
EPA recently fined a Phoenix, Ariz. paint and hazardous chemical storage and repackaging company $23,800 for violating the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.
"We understand the governmental requirements and process that have to be followed, but this unending delay is totally unacceptable," wrote AEM President Dennis Slater in a letter to DOL Secretary Elaine Chao and OSHA head Edwin Foulke.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Protection Plan Progress Report, released on July 2 in conjunction with the Interagency Working Group on Import Safety Action Plan Update, shows significant areas of activity to further improve the safety of America's food supply since unveiling its Food Protection Plan in November 2007.
Last year, the United States imported more than $2 trillion worth of products. These products were brought to the United States by roughly 825,000 importers, through more than 300 ports of entry. All projections indicate that this volume will continue to rise, sharply.
“We do not know why such a highly competent leader and administrator of an agency that has been, by any measure, a success in the eyes of our members across the country and the entire safety and health community should not be reappointed,” wrote ASSE President Michael W. Thompson, CSP, in May.
OSHA has cited KMA Manufacturing LLC for numerous alleged safety and health violations following a fatal industrial accident in December 2007. OSHA is proposing a total of $119,400 in fines for the violations.