The entry deadline is Aug. 15, so inventors have little time if they haven't already begun.
Seeing modern tower cranes at work and scaffolding surrounding the soaring spires of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudi's magnificent basilica, is a reminder of safety's worldwide importance and progress.
The ISO 27065:2011 standard defines specific protection levels, allowing pesticide manufacturers to display the required level of protection needed on their products' labels.
The World Health Organization's director-general appointed Sir Liam Donaldson to the post on July 21.
The first new safety recommendation from French investigators July 29 is to make sure pilots receive training on manually flying planes at high altitude and recovering from stalls.
Women were twice as likely as men to suffer depression, and the major contributing factor was loss of a partner because of death, divorce, or separation.
Sales in each segment -- North America, Europe, and international -- rose by 18 percent, 33 percent, and 28 percent, respectively, year-over-year.
More than a million of these inaccurate blood tests are carried out annually to diagnose active TB, often at great financial cost to patients.
"Rarely does a summer pass without reports of serious burns sustained during camping trips, and sadly we do hear about fatalities from fires that have ripped through tents or caravans, often accelerated due to the explosion of fuel canisters," said Peter Cornall, RoSPA’s head of leisure safety.
Possible reasons for the link between height and cancer risk include hormone levels related to childhood growth, and in turn to cancer risk in later life. It was also suggested that the link could simply be down to the fact that taller people have more cells in their bodies, and so a greater chance of developing cancerous cell changes.
The report says better reporting by member states and a change in ICAO's definition of runway incursion caused the a 25 percent increase in major incursions, according to preliminary 2010 data.
Greater Manchester Police have referred five recent deaths at Stepping Hill Hospital to the coroner. Nurse Rebecca Leighton was charged July 22 with six counts of causing criminal damage with intent to endanger life or being reckless as to whether life would be endangered and one count of theft of medicine from the hospital.
The European Chemical Industry Council, cefic, recently released its first Responsible Care toolkit to help small and medium-size businesses with EHS issues, accident prevention, and reporting.
Baek Hun Ki, who previously chaired a national federation of labor unions, became president of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency on July 15.
Marks and Spencer plc will be sentenced Sept. 26 after being found guilty along with contractors of violating asbestos control regulations during reconstruction work.
In their current study, the researchers looked at the compatibility of the 2009 pandemic pH1N1 virus—which has some genetic characteristics that may allow it to reassort more easily than other influenza viruses—with an influenza strain known as H9N2.
They will continue initially for six months as part of a project studying the long-term impact of sustainable biofuels on aircraft performance.
The mining sector is a high-risk industry responsible for 2 percent of all serious worker's compensation claims and some of the highest injury and fatality rates nationwide.
Fears that REACH was too complex and set overly demanding deadlines for industry and regulators were overblown, says the first required report on how the REACH and CLP regulations are working.
The exception is that businesses still will be able to report fatal and major incidents and injuries by phone, however.