Director Dr. Thomas Frieden will be joined by two other experts March 25 to discuss the rising threat posed by CRE and other types of infections.
The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said four contractors received the notices during the first two weeks of March for violating federal regulations.
More than 10,000 accidental exposures per year involve mouse and rat poisons, according to the agency.
The agenda of the 2013 GMA Science Forum next month in Washington, D.C., is filled with FSMA workshops.
Its final rule lists quantities of 16 radionuclides that a task force concluded warrant additional security or protection.
The Standards Council of Canada has engaged NFPA to adapt the training modules used by American emergency responders.
Michigan OSHA announced the renewal March 13.
The joint initiative by the International Maritime Organization and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was created two years ago, after severe damage was done to Black Sea fisheries.
And these states have only 7 percent of the world's population, the World Health Organization reported March 14.
Next time your systems integrator comes in for the routine fire alarm system inspection, ask for recommendations on preparing paperwork for accreditation.
People taking OTC medicines for headaches, pain, fever, or colds should ask their pharmacist or physician whether they are safe to use. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs including ibuprofen and naproxen are NSAIDs that can harm the kidneys.
Maritime New Zealand has recently provided guidelines for safety in various kinds of adventure activities, such as jet boating and rafting, commercial kayaking and canoeing, and commercial white water boarding.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has scheduled an April 24 meeting in Washington, D.C., to consider its staff's recommendation to find that RP 755, a fatigue prevention guideline for refining and petrochemical industries, doesn't satisfy the board's recommendation following the 2005 BP refinery explosion in Texas City, Texas.
The new law requires direct services providers that receive funding from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services to provide workplace violence prevention and crisis response plans.
The final pour of concrete for a barrier wall in the dam in Jamestown, Ky., has been done, The Tennessean reported. It is intended to prevent a breach that would have triggered catastrophic flooding downstream, including in Nashville.
The agency has issued a draft guidance document urging manufacturers that want to indicate natural rubber latex was not used as a material instead use the statement on the product label, "not made with natural rubber latex."
A NIOSH grant funded Tactus Technologies' development of the 3D Forklift Trainer. The Amherst, N.Y. company is a spinoff from the University of Buffalo.
Oral fluid testing is also increasingly finding more positives, according to the company.
The British government's transport minister, Stephen Hammond, announced a new, strict liability offense of driving with a specified controlled drug in the body is being introduced. The list of drugs to be included has not yet been finalized.
Co-sponsors Sen. Patrick Leahy and Sen. Mike Crapo said the bill's passage was a rare moment of congressional bipartisanship.