Organic food is all the rage, but, according to a team of food and poultry scientists, despite popular opinion it's not automatically safer than conventionally grown foods.
New runways at three of the nation's busiest airports mean countless travelers will experience fewer delays and better service during the Thanksgiving holiday travel season, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters announced recently. Peters noted they were the latest in a series of measures the administration was taking to improve air travel.
"OSHA relies on this committee to provide a real-world perspective to our work," said Thomas M. Stohler, acting assistant secretary of labor for OSHA.
The combination allows the distributor to merge two U.S. supply chains into one, cutting costs and enabling faster growth, Grainger officials said last week.
The Dec. 9 webcast will focus on possible new directions for OSHA under the new administration and the potential impacts on the practice of SH&E professionals.
Families, and individuals traveling with medically necessary liquids this holiday season will be able to take advantage of the Transportation Security Administration's family lanes, regardless of which airport they use.
Today is Public Health Thank You Day, a day to thank friends and colleagues working in public health for all they do.
Mining company CEOs labeled the bill "too punitive" and called it unconstitutional. It subjects company executives to five years in prison or a $300,000 fine if a worker dies.
"A great deal of technical development and capabilities have evolved since the 1982 edition of the standard," said Jeff Fryman, Z244 Committee vice chairman. "These new technologies make the control of hazardous energy both more complex and easier to achieve.
The Dec. 2-3 event in Washington, D.C., has attracted attendees across the food production and marketing spectrum. Several experts are scheduled to present.
Organizations worldwide are focused today on the disease, which affects at least 10 million Americans and is the fourth-leading cause of death globally.
Interestingly, the issue of emergency preparedness and response—previously one of the public policy issues most on members' minds—was nowhere near the top of the list of concerns in the latest survey.
According to a new survey released today by Kimberly-Clark Professional, 89 percent of safety professionals polled at the 2008 National Safety Council (NSC) Congress have observed workers failing to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) when they should have been.
The agency has developed a searchable database that pulls together publicly available information from various sources to help identify consumer and commercial products that contain mercury and their possible non-mercury alternatives.
The publication notes that every product has an impact on the environment during all stages of its life-cycle, from extraction of resources to end-of-life treatment, and the need to reduce the potential adverse impacts on the environment of a product is recognized around the world.
Combining efforts of materials scientists and measurement laboratories with those of biological and medical researchers, a new Internet-linked "community of interest" will exploit Web 2.0-style social networking technologies to enable creating and sharing information, as well as deliberating over technical details of in-process standards.
Among other achievements the bureau cited for the year was the reduction in naturalization application processing times to 9-10 months, down from the 16-18 months projected after the surge of applications in late FY07.
In other international news, France reported fatal accidents rose by 16 percent in 2007, and 3M bought a small food safety company in Norway.
Also, the International Organization for Standardization, which is the world's largest developer of consensus standards, will have a new secretary-general beginning Jan. 1: New Zealand accountant Robert Steele, shown here.
Severe or very severe impairment in role functioning was reported by 55.4 percent of these veterans for home management, 41.3 percent for ability to work, 50.4 percent for close relationships with others, and 57.7 percent for social life.