The initiative includes materials designed to help firefighters understand the risks of smoking and how to quit. The resources are available on a new Web site at www.iaff.org/smokefree.
An FMCSA notice published yesterday seeks comments on the application, which would affect the company's fleet of about 1,650 buses.
The proposed legislation "is about encouraging investment in safety through the purchase and installation of technologies on trucks and buses that have been tested and proven to work" said CVSA Executive Director Stephen F. Campbell. "It will certainly help reduce heavy truck fatalities which have been hovering around 5,000 per year for the last 10 years."
One aspect of this agreement requires participating employers to provide effective training on worksite safety and health issues to non-English speaking employees.
Recommendations in the downloadable document are consistent with
OSHA's Personal Protective Equipment Standard (29 CFR 1910.132-138)
and presented in the context of thermal spraying, the society says.
In March 2007, EPA charged the firm with making false claims about the
effectiveness of its products against microbial pests.
The United Kingdom, Finland, Japan, and South Korea also have ratified the 2006 ILO document recently.
According to the task group, the standard will most benefit state
departments of transportation that require high-performance corrosion
protection of reinforcing steel bars in coastal environments, as well
as departments of transportation that use deicing salts on roads,
bridges, and decks.
The revisions reflect 49 CFR Part 40 changes that were published in
the Federal Register on June 25 and will become effective
August 25.
According to the survey, more than one-third of Americans are at increased risk for insomnia.
"Handling dangerous chemicals, electrical hazards, and machine
guarding problems are issues that should not exist at any worksite,"
said Richard Gilgrist, director of OSHA's area office in Cincinnati.
The recommendations pertain only to bombings and other mass-casualty events, the agency noted, and not to "routine" emergency responses.
"The investigation brings to light egregious violations of virtually
every aspect of Iowa's child labor laws," said Dave Neil, Iowa Labor
Commissioner. "It is my recommendation that the Attorney General's
Office prosecute these violations to the fullest extent of the law."
"The sizable fines proposed here reflect the breadth of hazards found
during our inspections and the fact that the company had been cited
for similar conditions in the past," said Robert Kowalski, OSHA's area
director in Bridgeport, Conn.
Workplace safety professionals who want the ability to interact with each other more than just once a year at trade shows and conferences now have a new resource.
While AEDs are increasingly being installed in public gathering places such as stadiums, shopping malls, hotels, airports, and bus terminals, their use in the workplace is just beginning to gain momentum, said Brian Trusky, vice president of loss prevention at Moss & Associates.
NHTSA has a statutory responsibility to thoroughly study and test the issue before recommending changes to school bus transportation, which is already 44 times safer than the typical family car, said NAPT Executive Director Michael Martin. "We just want them to do their job," he added.
A public hearing is set for Aug. 28 in Salem to discuss elimination of the minimum $100 penalty for failing to create a committee and a change that lets these employers hold safety meetings with fewer paperwork requirements.
"A twenty-first century rail system cannot run safely on laws from decades ago," said the legislation's author, U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg. "We are risking too much by letting train crews work too long and leaving highway crossings unsafe."
At the Sept. 17-23 International Code Council Final Action Hearing in Minneapolis, BOMA hopes to derail the required extra exit stairway for tallest buildings and an emergency responder radio coverage proposal.