OSHA, trade associations, and employers in eight states are scheduled to conduct one-hour construction safety stand-downs on that day.
Mixing novel technologies and methods with increased diligence in patient room decontamination is key to improving infection prevention.
The agency is making $550,000 available for educational and training programs to prevent unsafe conditions in and around mines.
The agency announced that from April 2012 to March 2013, more than 6,000 unemployed or underemployed Tennessee workers were enrolled in training programs.
The July 26 event is scheduled to take place at the agency’s headquarters in Frankfort.
The Aug. 26-29 national conference, one of the top annual events on the safety community's calendar, will take place at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center in Nashville.
A final rule available on the agency's website will require them to have an aircraft type rating and hold an Airline Transport Pilot certificate, which requires 1,500 hours as a pilot.
The society signed an agreement last month to work with Chinese workplace safety professionals and announced July 10 that it will work with Russia's National Association of Centers for Occupational Safety and Health.
Joe Salley, Ph.D., the company's president and CEO, will discuss "Safety From the CEO's Perspective" on the second day of the conferences.
The agreement followed negotiations after inspections at 42 facilities in 2009-10 found violations of OSHA electrical standards.
Safety is no longer "in the rear view mirror chasing upper management objectives." We are now leaders of the merged upper management team that runs the company.
This is key: Once the right risk assessment data is collected, it should be used to implement a long-term fall protection abatement program.
When your data shows a troublesome negative trend, rely on core safety principles that have worked throughout the years to get things turned around and your program back on track.
Once a company determines the need for a fall protection system, there are four options to evaluate: eliminate, prevent, restrain, and arrest.
A recent NIOSH study found workers from small companies and from well servicing companies are at greatest risk of dying in a motor vehicle crash.
ASSE's Women in Safety Engineering common interest group held its "Business and Networking" event June 24.
The June 8-11 event in Orlando will be here before you know it, and it follows a highly successful conference in another prime destination, Las Vegas.
Forestry and building and framing are two industries where the agency believes many temps are employed.
The World's Largest Swimming Lesson™ takes place June 18 with organizers predicting it will set another Guinness World Record.
Two took place in Tennessee and the Chicago area this week, focused on preventing caught in/between accidents and falls.