After a September 2012 investigation, Brenntag Northeast Inc. received more than $64,000 worth of violations.
Scores rose for most of the federal agencies involved with safety and health – including NTSB, the National Institutes of Health, the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the National Nuclear Security Administration, FAA, and CDC.
The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said four contractors received the notices during the first two weeks of March for violating federal regulations.
The agenda of the 2013 GMA Science Forum next month in Washington, D.C., is filled with FSMA workshops.
And these states have only 7 percent of the world's population, the World Health Organization reported March 14.
His speech at the annual West Virginia Mining Symposium mentioned how sharply the industry's fatality and injury rates have fallen since the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act was enacted in 1977.
The British government's transport minister, Stephen Hammond, announced a new, strict liability offense of driving with a specified controlled drug in the body is being introduced. The list of drugs to be included has not yet been finalized.
OSHA assessed 10 serious violations for alleged violations at CTO Management LLC, dba Health East Ambulatory Surgical Center in Englewood, N.J.
A new online portal is the Labor Department's gateway to activities associated with its 100th anniversary year. A century after President William Howard Taft signed the bill that created DOL, President Obama issued a proclamation honoring its work.
Almost 70,000 of them occurred statewide last year, causing 168 fatalities, and the problem is growing, Florida Highway Patrol officials recently announced.
A remodeling firm was fined and ordered to pay court costs in connection with the February 2011 injury of a worker who fell about 20 feet and was seriously injured.
David Hughart, 53, pleaded guilty Feb. 28 to conspiring to violate mine health and safety laws.
Ann Sherry has been appointed to replace Tom Phillips by the country's minister for employment and workplace relations.
Strikes on aircraft in the United States haven't abated, according to an article by Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Lehmann.
It notifies the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center of violations for failing to protect workers who were researching a bacterium that can cause meningitis.
The text of his Feb. 4 speech is posted on OSHA’s popular website. He said 2012 was "a remarkable year, because as we were hard at work, we watched the empirical evidence continue to accumulate: OSHA inspections prevent injuries, and we do this without hurting employment or employer profitability."
Two states that have tried it, Oregon and Mississippi, apparently have been able to reduce or maintain the decline in the number of meth lab incidents, according to the report.
In 2011, the Burlington store received citations for similar safety hazards.
The maximum civil penalty is $175,000 for a knowing violation that results in death, serious or severe injury to someone, or substantial property damage.
The worker fell about 10 feet, breaking his shoulder and several ribs, when he stepped on a walkway section that had been removed and replaced but not secured, HSE reports.