According to PEO Soldier, the agency that develops and procures equipment for Army soldiers, the Gen II sensor weighs about 2.14 ounces and can store 1 gigabyte of data.
The product emissions and chemical content testing firm eco-INSTITUT helps European manufacturers test construction materials, floor coverings to more than a dozen indoor air quality standards.
A sparkling educational program is a highlight of the AIHA/ACGIH annual conference June 16-21 in Indianapolis.
An Emergency Response Plan Tool enables program members to build a customized plan to help their employees know their roles in the first 24-72 hours of an emergency.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents presented the Diamond Jubilee Award to the Olympic Delivery Authority on May 15, the same day the London 2012 Athletes' Committee gave its seal of approval to the Olympic and Paralympic Village.
The Missouri Department of Insurance is warning residents whose insurance claims are incomplete that many policies contain a 12-month deadline for consumers to receive full compensation.
With thousands of employees, visiting scientists, research fellows, interns, and volunteers, the Smithsonian uses cutting-edge programming to achieve results, ranging from its automated injury-reporting system to its use of electronic medical records and medical surveillance, ACOEM said.
The online tool from NHS Choices includes information about different types and causes of back pain, treatment options, and prevention methods.
Its former safety director says they’re in place but well hidden in the Toyota Elephant Passage, which will open to the public June 1 –- just in time for those attending ASSE's Safety 2012 to visit, should they choose.
Dozens of tall ships and U.S. Navy vessels, as well as an expected large spectator fleet, will sail up the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore beginning June 12.
A team from Carnegie Mellon University and AT&T Labs will present their findings at Pervasive 2012 on how drivers process the sensory feedback from a haptic steering wheel.
A two-day forum involving the board members and numerous experts will explore the issues in depth.
The Federal Highway Administration decided not to delay the Jan. 17, 2013, compliance date in the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
The Electronic Learning Community is now available to provide high-quality training for emergency responders. Its first course concerns responding to situations involving hydrogen fuels.
Joseph Faigl, a conductor with Union Pacific Railroad, and Mark Sheffield, mechanical supervisor with the South Buffalo Railway Company, received the award for outstanding safety achievement during the preceding year.
Ten of its operations received awards from the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association, but the company also announced it has reduced its workforce this year because of weaker domestic demand.
Pennsylvania's latest effort to strengthen highway safety is the addition of 20 officers -- 13 state troopers and seven municipal police officers – who recently were trained as drug recognition experts, State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan announced May 7.
The paper by Professors Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan for Copenhagen Consensus 2012 suggests four steps, including flood walls and effective early disaster warning systems.
A NIOSH analysis of data from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey found this group of workers has an especially high prevalence of averaging six hours or less of sleep daily.
Four years after a Rio Tinto executive announced the Mine of the Future program, an Australian newspaper reports some trucks at its remote West Angelas iron ore mine are being remotely controlled.