Orlando's spacious Orange County Convention Center welcomes ASSE's annual conference next month.
The American Society of Safety Engineers is holding its first professional development conference in India -- May 26-27 in Chennai.
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 U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously approved S.2322, the MAP-21 Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the nation's transportation programs for six years at current funding plus inflation.
The one-day event will involve nearly 60 employers and aims to promote safety and health on the job.
Scaffolds and mobile equipment are top of mind during the June 17-18 event in London.
The first edition was printed in 2004, and it is one of the society's best-selling books.
The May 9 ceremony in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to include Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez, Deputy Secretary Christopher Lu, and descendants of the railroad workers.
The agency has renewed its 2007 partnership with the El Paso chapter of the national organization.
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.
Their analysis, published in MMWR, also indicated Hispanics, self-employed workers, and workers in smaller establishments had disproportionately higher ladder fall injury rates.
The alliance aims to reduce Atlanta-area construction workers' exposure to respirable crystalline silica.
The Dallas and Chicago OSHA offices have formed an alliance with the Philippine consulate general in Chicago.
The rule includes significant PPE changes, such as mandating fall harnesses for workers in aerial lifts and requiring that employers provide and pay for FR apparel.
The apps address ladder safety, heat stress, safe lifting, noise monitoring, and first aid.
Speaking this month during the presentation of a construction industry safety award, Commissioner for Labour Donald Tong Hong cited fatalities late last year and three deaths this year in lifting operations.
Workers, safety managers, and management are asked to pause to discuss topics including ladder safety, scaffolding safety, and roofing work safety.
Thomas Fariello, acting commissioner of the city's Buildings Department, said all three 2013 fatalities resulted from lack of adequate fall protection.
They identify safety issues that should be addressed and steps to be taken to resolve them, some of which are already underway. The reports do not highlight any issue as serious as the construction flaws that caused the collapse of the Rana Plaza in April 2013.
The proposed plan would put $90.9 billion into safe and innovative transportation programs.