Such designs reduce staff stress and fatigue, improve patient safety, lower patient stress, and raise overall health care quality.
IFMA's 2010 World Workplace Conference & Expo opens Oct. 27 at the Georgia World Congress Center, giving thousands of facility management professionals a look at the newest products, greenest buildings, and best strategies for their careers and their operations back home.
OSHA announced its approval of the Pasadena, Calif.-based engineering and construction firm on Monday.
At a conference preparing for national oil bargaining in 2012, union Vice President Gary Beevers described a mentality of running equipment until it fails and delaying turnarounds.
Gy Bennar, a former landscaping and maintenance worker for the public golf course at the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark, filed a whistleblower retaliation charge against the Southwestern Oklahoma Development Authority irrigating a golf course with untreated effluent from sewage that had not undergone proper filtration or chlorination, exposing both golfers and workers to potentially harmful toxins.
According to DOE, the 2009 IECC now available will produce approximately 15 percent in residential energy efficiency gains compared to the 2006 edition.
Meeting Oct. 12 and Oct. 20, the commissioners will examine progress to date on integrating safety throughout the Commerce Department organization.
A worker died when he became caught in moving parts of a machine known as a stacker, which activated while he was inside the machine performing maintenance.
The agency that provides security for thousands of government buildings is understaffed and badly managed, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman and others on the committee say.
Criteria considered for the annual Secretary of the Navy award include mishap trend analysis, safety inspections, and initiatives beyond what the Navy's safety regulations require.
OSHA began its inspection in March after receiving a complaint concerning ammonia odors, trip and struck-by hazards, cuts, and stabbing injuries. The investigation was expanded to all areas of the facility when inspectors observed a high number of safety hazards.
A single citation for obstructed exit routes alone amounted to $70,000 because the company was cited for similar conditions at other locations three years ago, making it a recurring hazard.
The OSHA area director urged the company to evaluate all of its store locations for hazards after this latest filing.
An Oct. 19 seminar and Oct. 20-21 symposium are in Kansas City, Mo., sponsored by the NFPA and its affiliated Fire Protection Research Foundation, will include a case study by Imperial Sugar's vice president of Manufacturing & Engineering.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is responding to a congressional mandate for a yearlong, $575,000 study by the National Academy of Sciences on how to reduce or eliminate the stockpile at Bayer CropScience's plant in Institute, W.Va.
The event is part of a campaign designed to raise public awareness of indicators of terrorism, crime, and other threats and emphasize the importance of reporting suspicious activity to the proper transportation and law enforcement authorities.
As far as holiday weekends go, only Thanksgiving, July Fourth, and Memorial Day have more roadway fatalities—and nearly half of those are alcohol related.
The citations allege, among other things, that the company did not take air samples as required for workers who were overexposed to airborne lead nor provide the required annual training associated with the hazards. An additional willful violation alleges that the company stopped providing hearing tests to employees overexposed to noise.
Hurricane Earl, a Category 2 storm this morning, now poses little danger to the U.S. eastern seaboard. But the hurricane season isn't over, and other threats are out there.
If we continue to focus on the tactical issues and play "safety cop," we will impede efforts to suggest safety is truly a foundation for sustainable growth.