NIOSH identified seven primary sources of silica dust exposure during fracturing operations and found that workers downwind of sand mover and blender operations, especially during hot loading, had the highest silica exposures.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed four bills to list K2 and others as Schedule 1 drugs, while DEA thanked congressional negotiators June 19 for agreeing to add 26 synthetic drugs to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
OSHA initiated a December 2011 inspection following a referral from the Pennsylvania State Department of Health indicating that employees had high levels of lead in their blood.
The U.S. has seen four lightning deaths so far this year—all male—with three struck while fishing.
Calling their safety culture "poor," Dr. George Byrns details two surveys that identified many shortcomings.
Each year, thousands of outdoor workers experience heat illness, which often manifests as heat exhaustion. If not quickly addressed, heat exhaustion can become heat stroke.
The new test will help diagnose dengue within the first seven days after symptoms of the illness appear.
The NIOSH director always draws an appreciative audience at safety and health conferences. He urged the industrial hygienists to involve themselves in international standards and to prepare for new challenges.
For the second year in a row, the foundation awarded more than $100,000 in scholarships this year, Treasurer Brian Daly said.
Basic supplies include absorbent compresses, antibiotic treatment, medical exam gloves, and adhesive bandages.
CDC says the www.smokefree.gov website also received more than 400,000 additional unique visitors because of the "Tips from Former Smokers" national ad campaign.
From Legionnaires’ Disease diagnoses among workers at an auto shredding operation to mail order pharmacy workers exposed to pill dust, students and professionals have explored interesting IH challenges recently.
The company has been issued nine serious safety and health violations for failing to monitor workers' exposure to nickel, chromium, hydrochloric acid, and sulfuric acid while cleaning electroplating tanks.
The opening keynote speaker at this year’s AIHce conference spoke quietly and didn’t say much of anything about industrial hygiene until the end of his talk, but he kept his audience spellbound nonetheless. Juan Enruiquez, co-founder of Synthetic Genomics Inc. and managing director of Excel Venture Management in Boston, discussed genetic engineering and explained how it is already changing businesses around the world.
States that have them saved almost four times more per registered motorcycle than those without these laws, according to the study in CDC's MMWR.
Northwestern University's Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine will house the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine, which the Querrey Simpson Charitable Foundation will establish.
The need for blood is being driven by increasingly sophisticated medical and surgical procedures such as cardiovascular and transplant surgery, trauma care, and therapy for cancer and blood disorders.
A willful violation was issued for failing to provide required training to protect employees from incidents of violent behavior by inmates, including stabbings, bites, and other injuries.
This app gives instant access to information on how to handle the most common first aid situations and includes videos and interactive quizzes.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decisions are expected shortly before the American Public Health Association opens its 2012 Midyear Meeting in Charlotte, N.C.