The new program will strengthen the coordination of work by TSA, law enforcement, airline, and airport security partners to reduce vulnerabilities on the "secure side" of the airport, which includes the tarmac.
Two easy-to-read checklists and an accompanying wall chart timeline provide evidence-based recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force regarding screening tests, preventive medicines, and healthy lifestyle behaviors men and women 50+.
The aim of the two-day event is to provide attendees with a "map" of resources that employers and government officials can use to prevent workplace hazards in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), according to Pilar Cancela, director general of Industrial Relations.
"Our big take-home message is, wear self-contained breathing apparatus during all phases of firefighting," said co-author Suzanne Snedeker. "Put on the gear before arriving at a fire and don't take it off until the operation or inspection is completed, even during fire inspections conducted days later when chemicals can still outgas from charred remains."
The ANSI Appeals Board Panel dismissed the appeal from the Construction Industry Employer Coalition, according to ASSE, the standard's secretariat.
The new safety video details the 2006 Partridge-Raleigh oilfield explosion in rural Raleigh, Miss., that led to the deaths of three contractors.
Failing to follow labeling instructions and allowing two pesticides--Direx 4L and Garlon 4--to enter a Northern California waterway were violations of the federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Clean Water Act, EPA said.
As Midwest floodwaters recede and cleanup efforts get underway, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Inc. is offering advice to help reduce the risk of infection.
"Before implementing such significant fee increases, DOT must demonstrate why the additional funds are needed and specifically how they will be spent," said Jennifer Gibson, NACD vice president of Government Affairs.
The July 29 event in Denver will survey accomplishments under the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA), which entered its second decade in 2006.
The association also outlines the problems that would occur, including substantial transportation cost increases, shipment delays, and opportunities for loading and unloading incidents, if railroads were to be relieved of their common carrier obligation and the transportation of TIH materials had to be shifted to trucks.
Seven repeat offenses for similar fall hazard violations in 2006 and 2007 alone resulted in $100,000 in proposed penalties.
Six years after then-Secretary Tom Ridge outlined the Homeland Security Advisory System, new AHA comments say the latest iteration for health care doesn't fit how hospitals respond to disasters.
The society currently has 92 active research projects, including ones focusing on hospital operating room air distribution and air quality on board commercial aircraft.
If constructed, the deepwater Calypso port would be 8-10 miles offshore with an average throughput capacity of about 1.1 billion standard cubic feet per day.
Sponsored by NIOSH and the Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center, the symposium will showcase the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA). NORA is a collaborative strategy by government, industry, labor, academia, and others for designing and supporting innovative research to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths.
Among the new requirements up for discussion, fumigant registrants will have to adopt more stringent worker protection measures and develop training for fumigation handlers and workers to enhance their knowledge and skills and to promote product stewardship.
"Interstate movers with fraudulent or rogue operations are hereby put on notice: federal investigators will be knocking on your door in the future and you will face serious legal and financial consequences," FMCSA Administrator John H. Hill said.
An ANSI standard may be finalized by the end of this year, Connecticut's new penalties for drivers who injure workers take effect Oct. 1, and the Subpart K federal rule will take effect Dec. 1.
The 30-second public service announcement will be seen on well more than 60 screens averaging 370,000 monthly viewers from June 27 to July 24, according to the department.