To help ensure that first responders, public safety officers, and military personnel can always talk with each other no matter what communications equipment they are using--a characteristic known as interoperability--the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have teamed up to create the Project 25 Conformity Assessment Program (P25 CAP).
The study administered a highly concentrated form to patients in shock during ambulance transport to the hospital. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute stopped the clinical trial because this showed no more survival benefit than using normal saline solution.
University of Utah scientists devised a new method, illustrated in this diagram, to find trapped miners that involves installing iron plates and sledgehammers at regular intervals inside mines, and sensitive listening devices on the ground overhead.
The W. Va.-based company was cited for failing to ensure that operating procedures addressed special or unique hazards of the process, failing to conduct adequate inspections on process equipment, and failing to ensure that proper respiratory protection and personal protective equipment were utilized during an emergency response, among other things.
The former OSHA chief and Fisher & Phillips LLP colleague Howard A. Mavity presented a webinar today in which they advised employers to review their corporate policies for disciplining workers who violate safety standards. Foulke said employers shouldn't ignore routine areas such as recordkeeping, lockout/tagout, and PPE, job safety analyses.
More than 70 public health and health care organizations will be represented at today's IOM public meeting, which is available by phone and online. By June 30, IOM must evaluate the response and recommend how to spend $400 million in stimulus money.
The Food and Drug Administration recently completed a "proof-of-concept" study of a test that quickly and accurately detects the presence of even the smallest amount of the deadly anthrax toxin.
Acting Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Nancy Ward has announced the appointment of former Fairfax County Fire Chief Glenn Gaines as the new Deputy Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Fire Administration.
"These findings are strong evidence against the common misconception in the emergency responder community that many of their members have BMIs in the overweight and obese ranges simply on the basis of increased muscle mass. Even in these young recruits, we documented a very strong association between excess BMI and an increased cardiovascular risk profile," said senior author Dr. Stefanos Kales.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety posted the maps last week, allowing anyone to know which three states have no laws on their books requiring motorcyclists or bicyclists to wear protective helmets.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Inc., of Mebane, N.C., has announced a voluntary recall of certain approximately 167,000 Kidde XL Fire Extinguishers.
The Ministry of Justice launched a program last October targeting 10 areas in England and Wales. Individuals given immediate jail sentences for possession rose by 23 percent, to 1,386, in the October-December 2008 quarter.
U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal, who approved the fine, said she had no authority to alter the deal submitted to her and cannot make the Texas City refinery safe, The Houston Chronicle reported today.
The Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service wins $5,000 to help its fire safety program for adults older than 65. The department has won many accolades and recently had its chief leave to become fire chief of Charleston, S.C.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released two new tools designed to protect and care for children who are in a hospital or a school during a public health emergency.
Rhode Island Gov. Carcieri wants to pay $10 million, which the state offered to victims, from federal stimulus money before July 1, and federal magistrate judge has approved a plan to distribute $176 million to more than 300 people.
NOAA’s National Weather Service has issued a report that analyzes forecasting performance and public response during the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history.
The findings were used to support a new statewide program to place automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in high schools.
Included in the penalty amount is one willful violation for the company's failure to appropriately test gas monitors for hydrogen sulfide and combustible gas in the HVAC systems for the control rooms.
The Healthcare Waste and Emergency Preparedness Coalition has been formed to raise awareness and provide education about two major problems facing the healthcare system today -- healthcare facility operational sustainability during a crisis and the proper methods of discarding hazardous medical waste.