Staffers will visit residential construction sites to focus on specific hazards the employers have requested. No citations and penalties for participating employers will be issued, but participants must agree to correct all serious conditions.
The company was fined May 16 after an engineer lost his hand in a machine in its Nofolk, UK plant.
Nearly 5,000 emergency room visit in 2012 resulted from exposures to them, and more than one-third of them occurred at homes.
"Safety is our top priority, and today's announcement puts all manufacturers on notice that they will be held accountable if they fail to quickly report and address safety-related defects," U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.
After reviewing updated earthquake hazard information for the 59 operating reactor sites and one unfinished reactor site east of the Rocky Mountains, the agency has directed 10 plant operators to submit detailed risk analysis by June 30, 2017, and the other 11 to submit it by Dec. 31, 2019.
The report cites fatigue, inadequate aircraft maintenance, lack of operations-specific risk management guidance, and lack of guidance for pilot knowledge and skills tests as safety issues for the industry.
The one-day event will involve nearly 60 employers and aims to promote safety and health on the job.
Speaking May 8 at the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Director Brian Salerno cited Navy submarines, nuclear power plants, and the space program as highly technical operations where failure is never an acceptable outcome. "I would argue that your industry falls into much the same 'no-failure-acceptable' category, with the level of technology now employed," he said.
The CDC agency's recent report confirmed that drywall imported from China during the 2000s may have been detrimental to human health.
The U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory reported May 2 that Mount St. Helens remains active but an eruption is not impending.
Alan Duncan, minister of state for International Development, discussed the government's support for workers injured in the Rana Plaza collapse, and for the ILO and the Bangladesh government, during a parliamentary hearing April 30.
Evaluating the proper, ANSI-compliant enclosed safety solutions for your climates is an important first step in determining the right solution.
Any activity that creates dust should be investigated to see whether there is a risk of that dust being combustible.
Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg writes that the states "have an important role to play in addressing a critical driver of opioid abuse -- inappropriate prescribing practices. However, we can't just focus on one drug, Zohydro, alone."
The Community Preventive Services Task Force is recommending that jurisdictions where sobriety checkpoints are legal use publicized sobriety checkpoint programs because they are an effective way to reduce alcohol-impaired driving.
"The terms of this agreement to improve conditions and training are unprecedented," said Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels. "The company has committed to supporting extensive worker participation, an important role for the joint health and safety committee, and implementation of a comprehensive safety and health program to better protect Republic Steel employees."
Safety agencies around the world observe this day, April 28, to encourage workers and employers to do all they can to be safer on the job.
The investigative agency will release and vote on its final report on the Tesoro Refinery explosion four years ago.
Their analysis, published in MMWR, also indicated Hispanics, self-employed workers, and workers in smaller establishments had disproportionately higher ladder fall injury rates.
Starting Feb. 1, 2016, mine operators must use continuous personal dust monitors to monitor the exposures of underground coal miners in occupations exposed to the highest respirable dust concentrations and the exposures of miners who have evidence of the development of pneumoconiosis. The rule also expands medical surveillance requirements and extends them to surface coal miners.