If you have already addressed stockpiling needs for your facility, OSHA invites you to please provide your underlying assumptions and methodology.
"Employers have an essential and unavoidable responsibility to see to it that areas with flammable liquids and chemicals which carry significant health risks are made safe for their employees," said Richard Gilgrist, OSHA's area director in Cincinnati.
This summer, Americans can expect an increase in the number of air quality alert days, as a result of EPA's new ozone health standard.
EPA has proposed a significant reduction in the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for lead emissions from the 1.5 micrograms per cubic meter of air to a range of 0.10 to 0.30 micrograms per cubic meter.
Industry associations say methods used to measure asbestos under MSHA's new rule "may indicate that asbestos is present in a mine when in fact it is not."
The council has not recommended auto-injectors for use by health care personnel, at whom the guideline is directed.
Coal miners who wore it for a month did check their dust levels and made adjustments to lower them, a NIOSH team reported.
Michigan OSHA announced its resumption April 11 and said it is following OSHA's lead, now that an annual congressional block has been removed.
As of April 21, industry personnel who apply for qualification, certification, and instructor credentials must register to get a new ID number. THose responsible for maintaining dust sampling units must get a new number to continue sampling.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning employers about working with dangerous substances without a proper health and safety assessment following the prosecution of the world's largest clay brick and tile manufacturer.
"Our Alliance will continue to work together to provide AFS members and metalcasting businesses with free guidance and training resources to protect the well-being of employees in the foundry industry," said OSHA chief Edwin G. Foulke, Jr.
The agency plans to purchase thousands of the improved units and says it expects some of them to be available in time for this year's hurricane season.
Armed with the most money ever appropriated for emissions reduction grants, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is calling on all applicants to submit their application packages today no later than by 5 p.m.
When it filed for bankruptcy protection in April 2001, the company said it had been named in 325,000 asbestos personal injury claims.
The document lists good practices that can prevent excessive exposure to lead and noise by officers using indoor firing ranges and by employees of the ranges who clean up.
Dutch, Swedish, and British researchers conducted the research with 10 male volunteers.
The new chromium-3-based coating system is a safer to human health and the environment and more effective than the standard chromium-6-based paint used previously, the Army says.
The PPE maker will be integrated into Honeywell Life Safety in a group headed by Roger Fradin, shown here.
The original cost estimate, $3 billion, was wrong because the program didn't end in 1976 as planned and eligibility and benefits were expanded. Almost 1 million claims have been filed.
The agency created the action plan after an Institute of Medicine panel said preparedness is urgently needed for the nation's 14 million health care workers.