FAA included provisions for existing and new planes, and the rule addresses future aircraft modifications.
The cost of propeller guards, the least expensive option, would be at least five times more than the agency's original estimate.
Witnesses are expected from FDA and FSIS, which teaches food safety to consumers via the Be Food Safe campaign.
Recovering from a disaster is never easy, whether it's a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, fire, flood, or thunderstorm. These events have the potential to cause loss of equipment, power failures, non-functioning communication systems, and missing or otherwise preoccupied personnel.
THIS article deals with the subject of health and safety as cultural imperatives in organizations attempting to compete in a global environment; the article will help determine whether your organization has a safety-friendly corporate culture and provides a 10-step model for establishing such a culture.
IN case you missed it, the heads of state of Mexico, Canada, and the United States announced the North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza on Aug. 21, setting in place a much-needed Northern Hemisphere response to prevent a disastrous health episode. The crux of the plan is Chapter 5, Border Monitoring and Control Measures.
DOE also announced it is plugging $19 million into research to commercialize plug-in hybrid vehicles.
The event will focus on best practices for effective hearing protection programs.
The U.S. Postal Service chose to require pre-primary receptacles comply with OSHA's bloodborne pathogens standard rather than FDA's 510(k) approval.
All 19 winners achieved at least 4,000 employee hours in 2006 without a fatal or lost-time injury. This awards program began in 1925.
The settlement amounts weren't disclosed. Brent Coon, who also represented plaintiff Eva Rowe, settled these contractors' cases Sept. 18, 2007.
Nine metric tons of plutonium, enough to make more than 1,000 nuclear weapons, will be turned into mixed-oxide fuel commercial power reactors in coming decades, DOE Secretary Bodman said Sept. 17.
The revised guidelines state that psychologists must be licensed to perform initial evaluation and treatment of injured workers and also administer and interpret psychometric tests.
The "supersport" motorcycles are extremely popular, with registrations up 83 percent in 2005 from 2000. Their drivers have a worrisome death rate.
The National Academics convened a committee of experts in chemical and bio agents, building design, indoor airflow, and risk assessment to study the issues.
The Minnesota program began in 1996.
The Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers petitioned for the same emergency standard in July 2006 but say OSHA hasn't moved. Thirty-five deans and professors of public health and safety supported this latest letter.
Communication, monitoring, and machine control wireless systems are seriously challenged on the factory floor, but ongoing tests are finding some solutions.
THIS is part of my continuing series of useful links from the Internet. In this month’s edition, we look at Summer Safety. Underground Cables and Electricity In the summer, we may be doing some home remodeling to ensure that we have curb appeal. This means we have to dig up the ground around the home. Before we can do that, we have to get a utility markout by calling at least three days before we start work.