Robert Bosch Tool Corporation and CPSC warned owners to stop using the saws immediately and contact the company for a free lower guard replacement kit.
The July issue of NFPA's Electric Vehicle Safety Training newsletter includes a report summarizing the May 2012 workshop on emergency responders' PPE for hybrid and electric vehicles.
OSHA filed citations for alleged willful violations of electric shock, arc flash, and crushing and laceration hazards at Cives Steel Co.'s Augusta, Maine plant.
Top officials from Boeing, which now forecasts a $4.5 trillion market in new airplanes during the next 20 years, and other big names in the industry are heading to London for the Farnborough Airshow.
The required compliance deadline will now go into effect Sept. 15, 2012.
Burns and lacerations to the hands, face, and head were the most commonly reported consumer injuries in 2010, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The adjustability of hard hats has come a long way since their invention in 1919.
Pieper was troubled by a recurring problem: The hospital was in dire need of places to store and deploy emergency supplies and equipment.
The job safety analysis (JSA) performed for each particular job function will best determine what is needed in a safety shoe -- or if a safety shoe is needed at all.
Earlier SCBA alarms would be important protection for firefighters. Meanwhile, NFPA is moving to change its NFPA 1981 standard to require that indicators alarm at 33 percent of rated service time.
Allegedly willful violations of fall hazards were the cause of $315,000 of the penalties OSHA filed against two concrete contractors for a Jersey City, N.J. site.
The violations involve deficient lockout/tagout procedures, a lack of machine guarding, defective slings, poor housekeeping, a lack of protective footwear, and failing to have legible load ratings on slings.
Montreal is the destination and May 18-23 are the dates of next year's American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo.
John C. Sheptor detailed his company's four-year recovery process from a devastating explosion to an AIHce audience June 20 and said their 18,000-item action plan will be finished this year.
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.
MRA, a nonprofit employers association, announced the opening of this division on June 6.
Mike Rawlings, mayor of Dallas, spoke at a public officials breakfast June 12 as the AWWA annual conference reached its midpoint.
OSHA issued citations following a Jan. 21 inspection referred by the Illinois Department of Public Health that found two gun range operators were exposed to airborne lead levels up to 12 times the permissible level.
OSHA found that emergency exit access from a receiving and storage area was obstructed by the storage of pallets containing merchandise and equipment.
Award presentations and reports by President James M. Shannon are highlights of the June 11 session in Las Vegas.