The Los Angeles Fire Department and the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers worked together on the checklist to help owners of the devices steer clear of fire and electric shock hazards during winter months.
Health and safety issues in the automotive repair industry include injuries involving sprains and strains, cuts and lacerations, and bruises and contusions.
This is the second year that HHS has partnered with the Critical Care Societies Collaborative to recognize critical care teams and health care institutions for outstanding leadership to reduce or eliminate these infections.
Dr. Anna F. Dominiczak, Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Glasgow, will begin with the January 2012 issue of the AHA journal.
The report, “High-Rise Building Fires,” cites apartments, hotels, offices, and facilities that care for the sick as accounting for roughly half of all high-rise fires.
These losses were 140 percent of the losses during the first nine months of last year, according to A.M. Best Co.'s estimate.
It was prompted by three incidents, including a September 2011 fatality in Havre de Grace, Md., as a team of workers replaced ties on a bridge over the Susquehanna River.
The framework released Dec. 6 by As You Sow, a San Francisco nonprofit, tells food and food packaging companies what they should ask their suppliers regarding safety of their products. Several food companies assisted in its preparation.
The company has signed an agreement to build it at J.R. Simplot Company's production plant in Lathrop, Calif. Sulf-N-26 is an ammonium sulfate nitrate fertilizer shown to have lower explosive potential than traditional nitrate-based fertilizers.
Certificates under ISO 22000:2005, the food safety management standard, rose by 34 percent in 2010 and rose fastest in China, Japan, and Greece.
The five board members will participate in the Jan. 10 hearing in Washington, D.C. The agency continues to investigate the Sept. 16 crash during a race in Reno that killed 11 people and injured 74 others.
An estimated 250 home fires involving Christmas trees and another 170 home fires involving holiday lights and other decorative lighting occur each year.
The agency will accept comments until Feb. 10, 2012, but has not yet decided whether to pursue a a new performance safety standards.
Injuries sustained while exercising accounted for a third of total injuries, despite the fact that exercising is designed to keep employees in good physical condition and decrease the risk of injury while on the job.
The revised materials address OSHA's Materials Handling and Storage standard that protects workers who service single-piece and multi-piece rim wheels.
CEO Nancy Brown says the move "will help our nation take on one of its most significant public health problems."
Examples of best practices include promptly filing the worker’s compensation claim, phoning the employer to talk about the worker’s ability to return to work or a light-duty job, and regularly assessing a worker’s ability to do work activities.
A highly sophisticated fire alarm network achieves new heights of control at a General Motors facility in Indianapolis.
Enlist a safety team. Push your managers, machine operators, and safety personnel to gain a broad perspective on warehouse, assembly, and other manufacturing equipment and operations.
The heart and soul of any digital signage program is the content. Far too little focus is placed on this aspect of the program.