Crossrail Ltd has dug 3 miles of tunnels so far with five tunneling machines working night and day to complete Europe’s biggest construction project.
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.
A World Health Organization report warns of widespread mental trauma from the Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan.
Starting Oct. 1, employers no longer need to utilize trainers approved by the Health and Safety Executive.
These new mandates should help prevent offshore drilling disasters like the BP oil spill in 2010.
Ann Sherry has been appointed to replace Tom Phillips by the country's minister for employment and workplace relations.
Its summary indicates as many as 5 million people worldwide are bitten by snakes per year and 4.5 million people in the United States alone are bitten by dogs annually. Worldwide annual human deaths from rabies are estimated at 55,000.
NEOSSat (the Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite) is the world's first space telescope dedicated to detecting and tracking asteroids and satellites, according to the Canadian Space Agency.
EU-OSHA and OSHA in the United States both have new documents available addressing safe work with these materials.
The operations that are the most at risk due to water scarcity are the smaller, less-diversified ones.
U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, said the meteor
explosion above Chelyabinsk, Russia, and the Asteroid 2012 DA 14 flyby justify investment in systems
for detecting and diverting asteroids that could threaten Earth.
Beginning June 1, smoking is prohibited inside state office buildings, universities, hospitals, sports stadiums, restaurants, and on trains, at railway stations, and near entrances to subways.
The REACH program, implemented five years ago, has made more than 30,000 documents available about chemicals on the EU market.
Health Canada and Statistics Canada are collaborating on the study and expect to complete it in 2014. Initially they'll survey adult inhabitants in 2,000 residences near up to a dozen turbines.
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.
One underwater platform has been installed and the second is about to be placed. Later this month, the salvors will complete a simulation model predicting how much water inside the ship will be released when it is rotated upright.
The Tokyo utility company will buy about 800,000 tons of it annually starting in 2017 from an export facility to be built by Cameron LNG.
After denying claims that its hamburgers contained trace amounts of horse meat, Burger King has admitted that a supplier provided meat contaminated with horse.
The British OSHA agency's chairman announced Jan. 30 that 1,418 Fee for Intervention invoices from October and November totaled $1.15 million.
The organization said it hopes the Health and Safety Authority's Strategy Statement 2013-2015 can reduce occupational fatalities, particularly in agriculture and the fishing industry.