The proposed Canada Consumer Product Safety Act will provide better oversight of consumer products in Canada by improving the government's ability to take timely compliance and enforcement actions when unsafe products are identified.
Buildings Commissioner Robert D. LiMandri, shown here, explains the concept at a conference tomorrow. The city has made major changes to its construction safety requirements since last year's tower crane collapse.
In several EU countries, Labor Inspectors lack concrete guidance and must devise their own investigation methods and interpretations. It would be desirable to have a formal method that could be applied by all investigators. Besides, such formal methods should enable underlying causes to be discovered as soon as possible.
A handful of states and some countries, such as Japan, require automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in schools, in dental offices, or at gyms. And if your own organization takes employee health seriously, you likely have AEDs deployed at your workplace.
The plan was launched to safeguard domestic and imported food from contamination using three core strategies of prevention, intervention, and response.
Health hazard evaluation report HETA-2006-0332-3058, issued in April 2008, evaluates Republic Conduit workers' exposures to noise, metalworking fluids, welding fumes, and acids during metal conduit manufacturing. NIOSH investigators who visited the site in November 2006 and March 2007 concluded most workers were overexposed to noise, but the 168 workers weren't overexposed to acid mists, elements, or hexavalent chromium. The confined space and respiratory programs were incomplete, they found.
Publishing the proposed rule on Nov. 28, 2007, wasn't the end of the story. Contractors and their trade associations opposed it, testified against it at OSHA hearings, and filed additional documents as recently as October 2008.
An investigation began after OSHA inspectors witnessed employees working on a scaffold without using fall protection equipment at a worksite in El Paso.
The publications were developed to educate employers and employees on preventing injuries and illnesses from hazards associated with deck and spud barges.
The edcuational program for ASSE's conference and exposition, Safety 2009, includes three sessions devoted to safe confined space entries and two sessions about construction safety issues.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Friday voted 2-0 to give a one-year extension of the lead and phthalate content testing and certification requirements that would have taken effect Feb. 10, but the lower limits for both (600 ppm for lead, 1,000 ppm for phthalates in certain products) still take effect. Several manufacturers asked Jan. 28 for a delay.
The site offers news updates as changes are made, answers to frequently asked questions, articles, and an opportunity to pose questions to hearing conservation experts.
OSHA will hold an informal public hearing on the proposed cranes and derricks in construction standard on March 17.
In its latest 2009 update for the 111th Congress and President Obama, the agency designated three new high-risk areas, focusing on the U.S. Financial Regulatory System, the FDA's oversight of medical products, and EPA's processes for assessing and controlling toxic chemicals.
The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to take Venom HYPERDRIVE 3.0, a product sold as a dietary supplement and containing sibutramine, a controlled substance with risks for abuse or addiction and poses potential safety risks.
Contractors and vendors met in San Antonio last week to talk about technologies for underground utility work. Britain's HSE says a company's recent conviction after a worker suffered burns should remind other excavators of the hazards.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association recently sent a letter to President Obama offering support for his proposal to create more than three million new jobs for American workers.
Citing a fatal explosion in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 2006, U.S. Chemical Safety Board Chairman John Bresland has issued a new video safety message urging the state to move forward promptly with recommendations to extend OSHA coverage to all its public workers.
Registration is now open for the 2009 Oregon Governor's Occupational Safety and Health (GOSH) Conference, to be held March 9-12 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. The largest conference of its kind in the Northwest will feature more than 30 full-day workshops and 115 single-topic classes. It is designed to educate managers and workers about safety and health issues.
The event, from 11 a.m. to noon Central, opens the series with Editor Joel Haight participating and a focus on successful management of safety engineering work.