Saelua Medical Corporation in American Samoa and the University of Arizona are sharing the 2026 awards from the Brookwood-Sago Mine Safety grant program.
Washington regulators will use the input to help develop a preliminary draft rule, which they will share before holding more meetings around the state in 2027.
Awards of $150,000 to $2 million will fund two-year projects, and each applicant must line up an industry partner in Ohio.
Lithium-ion battery hazards, hands-on extinguisher practice and recurring storage and hot work violations deserve attention for the rest of 2026.
A new NIOSH bulletin highlights elevated blood lead levels among battery manufacturing and recycling workers, along with workplace conditions that can increase exposure.
MSA Safety's ALTAIR io 6 is a six-gas detector with a built-in sampling pump, and its cloud software tracks worker status, gas alarms and where each device is.
New restrictions aim to reduce firefighters' exposure to PFAS while providing assistance for the disposal of existing firefighting foam.
Top-only helmets may fall short when an assessment finds side-of-head risks, and a labeled lock works if the label is readable, according to two OSHA letters summarized by AIHA.
State investigators found an unguarded skylight and said the company had not identified the fall hazard or given workers adequate training on it.
Before a crew can fix a problem, someone has to find it. That search window holds unmanaged risk, and the utility industry may have found the solution to close it.