OSHA inspectors determined the employees were using a flammable brake wash to scrub the service pit floor when the fire occurred. As a result, three employees died, a fourth was critically burned, and a fifth employee was treated for smoke inhalation and released.
"We're pleased to award these grants to employer groups, labor organizations, and other non-profits that have demonstrated innovation and diversity in their training programs," MIOSHA Director Bart Pickelman said. "We appreciate the collaborative effort of these grantees and their mutual commitment toward preventing workplace injuries and illnesses."
Many of today's on-demand training solutions are highly affordable and scalable, offering hundreds of individual lessons that can be deployed to workers based on their specific training needs and requirements.
Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center is the setting for the National Safety Council's big annual conference next year.
Early Thursday morning, two explosions generating billows of thick black smoke were reported at a flooded chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, just 30 miles northeast of downtown Houston
OSHA recommends basing a lab's control strategies on the hierarchy of controls.
The NSC Congress & Expo is sure to be a week full of education and innovation in the safety and health market, so be ready to start your engines come September.
Hundreds of occupational safety and health professionals will be traveling to New Orleans to attend Safety+ at New Orleans' Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. It takes place Aug. 29 through Sept. 1.
The organizations will work together on education and safety initiatives in the chemical process industries
A new survey shows more than 21 percent of companies did not meet all GHS compliance requirements.
Don't let complacency permeate your hazard communication program.
An effective HazCom training program provides employees with a deeper understanding of the dangers and emergency situations they may face.
On the first anniversary of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, he said EPA has met its first-year implementation milestones under the law, having issued three new rules, provided a guidance document for external parties, and released scoping documents for the first 10 risk evaluations that will be conducted.
The event will help raise awareness of safety and health programs for stakeholders.
Amid a political change, ASSE has crafted a blueprint that highlights priorities and the vision for OSHA.
The promotion is happening during Safe and Sound Week.
Don't view the conclusion of this round of GHS deadlines as the end of the process, but rather the beginning of the new state of HazCom and what OSHA now expects for compliance.
McCain Foods USA, Inc. is recalling the products sold under the Roundy’s and Harris Teeter brands.
There were 4,836 fatal work injuries in the United States in 2015.
Being responsible for the impact of a chemical disaster—on staff, local communities, the environment, and the local economy—is every CEO's nightmare.