The "Drilling in Extreme Environments" report says insurers must fully understand the risks of these operations in order to hold realistic levels of capital and reserves.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has provisionally accepted the settlement agreement and civil penalty from Bad Boy Enterprises, LLC of Natchez, Miss., in connection with unintended acceleration in Classic Buggies off-road vehicles.
The U.S. Air Force's top officials approved ending the stand-down of all 170 aircraft after 12 incidents of pilots' experiencing hypoxia. Pilots will use additional protective equipment, according to USAF's announcement.
By implementing a first aid program developed with the specific challenges and injuries of a foodservice operation in mind, restaurants can help protect their workers and reduce exposure.
It says injury prevention is possible if contractors take steps such as using full sequential trigger nail guns, establishing nail gun work procedures, and providing workers with personal protective equipment.
Stone Zhang, DNV's director of operations for China Energy, said the company wants to share its expertise and bring best practices from all over the world to the Chinese pipeline industry.
Developed after the Fukushima Daiichi crisis began, the IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety is up for endorsement at the agency's 55th General Conference in Vienna this week.
These fires caused an estimated 3,120 civilian fire deaths, a four percent increase from a year ago, and an estimated 17,720 civilian fire injuries, also a four percent increase from the previous year.
The violations include failing to comply with the requirements of OSHA's process safety management standard, which resulted in workers being exposed to ammonia during maintenance of pipe lines.
Among 22 winners of $500,000, no-strings-attached awards announced Sept. 20 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation was Kevin Guskiewicz, who has focused his research on sports-related concussions.
The sector's fatality rate in 2009 was 24.7 per 100,000 workers, and an average of 243 farm workers suffer lost-time injuries each day, ASSE said.
A Fatal Alert posted by MSHA says this category of mines has experienced more fatalities in October than in any other month during the past 11 years.
The agency announced its $93 million will clean up lead and other health hazards in nearly 7,000 high-risk homes and train workers about lead safety methods.
Representatives of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation defended the large increases during a Sept. 13 public hearing, saying claims and the cost of adjusting sinkhole losses are skyrocketing.
The serious violations involve failing to investigate incidents as being related to process safety management and address inconsistent thickness measurements collected during pressure vessel inspections.
BOEMRE has decided independent audits are needed, plus procedures authorizing any employee to stop work upon seeing a regulated activity that endangers a person, property, or the environment.
The Z590.3 standard focuses specifically on the avoidance, elimination, reduction, and control of occupational safety and health hazards and risks in the design and redesign process.
More than 1,055 hospitals and 1,775 hospital teams now participate in the HHS project, and their patient infection rates improved by 33 percent after a year, the latest report shows.
DOT cites health concerns, not safety issues, in its proposed ban on using electronic cigarettes on all scheduled passenger aircraft. It may extend the ban to charter flights of U.S. carriers and foreign carrier aircraft that seat 19 passengers or more.
The European Maritime Safety Agency opened its doors in 2003 after two major oil spills occurred about three years apart off the coasts of France and Spain.