The U.S. Department of Energy puts $60 million into training the next generation's nuclear energy leaders.
Safety training is finally taking the next giant step in the right direction.
Company executives christened a gleaming new Training & Customer Experience Center where workers can get hands-on experience with confined space entry and rescue, communication tower climbing/rescue, servicing a wind energy nacelle, installing and using fall anchorages on a residential roof, and rescuing a co-worker from an oil rig’s catwalk and pipe rack.
A task group will identify well servicing positions that require Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities and will develop core competencies for each.
One session concerned a global, high-speed broadband service for the maritime industry. A ship could be fitted with CCTV video cameras so that during a security incident, the shipping company could view live feeds and retrieve security logs.
The Chicago-based meat company faces $53,000 in fines
Drilling Contractor magazine describes the planned facility as "a rig safety and skills laboratory."
Powered Industrial Trucks are critical to many industries. By implementing a forklift safety program and effective training, you can ensure that this asset doesn't become a liability.
When training is done well, in combination with engineering controls, it is a very effective way to reduce back injuries and create safer lifting environments.
Employers must continue to focus on forklift safety training and consider the use of multiple safety devices, such as strategically placed signs, painted aisles, and guarded walkways.
The Gaylord Resort Hotel & Convention Center at National Harbor, Md., is the site for the August 2014 event.
The guidance document recommends equipping AN storage areas with automatic fire sprinklers and not storing more than 2,500 tons of bagged AN without such a system.
Cindy Lewis, director of the Gulf Coast Safety Institute and an OSHA Challenge administrator, told the audience at her workshop that contractor safety is an issue for every site she visits.
A presentation by officials from Saint Thomas Health, TOSHA, and federal OSHA traced the Midtown Hospital's four-year effort to become the first health care VPP site in the state last year.
Results released Aug. 22 by the UK's largest fire department show that disabled and older residents, among others, are 18 times less likely to have a fire after firefighters visit.
OSHA announced the alliance and its new website for this purpose on Aug. 22.
The North American Council for Online Learning defines it this way: “Blended learning means many things to many people, even within our relatively small online learning community. It is referred to as both blended and hybrid learning, with little or no difference in the meaning of the terms among most educators. In general terms, blended learning combines online delivery of educational content with the best features of classroom interaction and live instruction to personalize learning, allow thoughtful reflection, and differentiate instruction from student to student across a diverse group of learners.”
According to the American Heart Association, over 300,000 sudden cardiac arrests (SCA) occur annually in the United States, and, according to OSHA, about 10,000 occur at work. For many companies who set out to improve the health and safety of their workforce by implementing an Automated External Defibrillation (AED) program, it’s often easier to set up a defibrillator program than it is to maintain and keep the program as vibrant as it was when it started.
Two employees from the company competed at the Leipzig event in July, one in electrical installations and the other in aircraft maintenance.
The settlement resolves two enforcement cases and applies to all 2,857 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores in OSHA's jurisdiction.