One piece of legislation signed last week requires site safety managers to include in their plans a statement that workers have successfully completed a 10-hour OSHA course on construction safety and health within five years of working on the site.
Meetings today in Brussels will lead to an agreement helping emergency responders improve their procedures, communications, equipment, PPE, and training.
In addition to the enforcement activities, Cal/OSHA has conducted more then 649 heat illness seminars, onsite consultations, and outreach events throughout the state this year.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said the money will fund $10,000 scholarships at 58 nursing schools in a bid to combat the nationwide nurse shortage.
"Injury rates in trucking are far above the state average for all industries combined," said Barbara Silverstein of L&I's Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention (SHARP).
"Cleanup after a storm of this magnitude can be particularly dangerous, and employers and employees need to take the proper precautions to avoid serious injury," said OSHA chief Edwin G. Foulke Jr.
The Texas-based company joins the Washington Division of URS Corp., Georgia-Pacific, General Electric Co., the U.S. Postal Service, and Dow Chemical Co. in the program.
The four Wisconsin OSHA offices are offering a one-day training conference scheduled for September 9 in Wisconsin Dells, Wis., to advise professional caregivers on how to avoid ergonomic injuries, falls, and work-related illnesses.
One of the goals of the renewed agreement will be conveying civilian workforce safety and health best practices and injury/illness reduction lessons to soldiers where appropriate, the agency said.
By now you have probably heard of Second Life, the online community created by San Francisco-based Linden Lab in which people, or their animated representatives, can buy virtual “goods” and “land,” construct homes and buildings, conduct business, and essentially live second, imaginary lives—spending, and sometimes making, real money in the process.
In his epic work "The Waste Land" (1922), T.S. Eliot wrote convincingly that “April is the cruellest month,” but a case can be made for September. Throughout American history, all varieties of disasters have transpired in this ninth month of the year—from shipwrecks to plane crashes to terrorist attacks—the aftermath of which have changed the way we live, work, and simply function as a society. Some of these changes have been subtle, others, such as the events of 9/11 seven years ago, drastic.
Tomorrow, hundreds of air traffic controller trainees in Oklahoma City will become the first in the country to train using new state-of-the-art simulators.
Traditionally, when operators or maintenance personnel required access to the hazardous section of machinery, employee health and safety regulations required removing all energy to that machinery.
It is tempting to think in simple terms about lockout/tagout—that you merely need to power down a machine and put a lock through the deenergized disconnect to achieve safety. The reality is that it’s not that simple, and it’s dangerous to think otherwise.
The wheels are in motion to create the Fifth Edition of the "ILO Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety," with experts all over the world invited to contribute. It will be the first 21st Century edition of a reference dating to the 1930s and the first update since the 1990s' four-volume Fourth Edition, which cost nearly $7 million and took five years to produce.
All working Australians should concentrate on and be involved in safety at their workplaces Oct. 19-25, the Australian Safety and Compensation Council says.
The alliance partners jointly will develop training and education programs for new hires in the auto sales, repair, and service industry regarding job-related safety and health issues.
"We have long realized that accurate safety information, proper education, and training are synonymous with managing the risks we face on a day-to-day basis," said BCSC Executive Director Bryan Lowes.
The live-action afternoon demolition will be part of the group’s national conference, Sept. 7-10.
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) SafeWork program today welcomed the acceptance by Dr John Howard, former director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, to serve as chair of the Steering Committee for the 5th edition of the ILO Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety.