"These violations are indicative of the kinds of safety and health concerns, often found at department stores, that can pose serious risk to employees," said Jean Kulp, director of OSHA's Allentown, Pa., Area Office.
The Food and Drug Administration recently announced that it had obtained a permanent injunction barring Neilgen Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Westminster, Md., its parent company, Advent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Advent), of East Windsor, N.J., and two of their officers, Bharat Patel and Pragna Patel, from manufacturing and distributing any unapproved, adulterated, or misbranded drugs.
The company disclosed more than 680 violations of water, air, hazardous waste, emergency planning and preparedness, and pesticide regulations to EPA after auditing 12 facilities it acquired from DuPont in 2004.
The company has been fined $121,500 for violations associated with process safety management, hazardous waste operations, and emergency response, including the company's failure to identify all of the causal factors of the incident during the investigation. The chemical release resulted in the evacuation of residents living within a three-mile radius of the facility.
"This order reaffirms both the right of drivers to refuse to operate vehicles when they reasonably believe it is unsafe and the Labor Department's commitment to taking the necessary steps to protect that right," said Ken Nishiyama Atha, OSHA's regional administrator in San Francisco.
Conditions at the worksite resulted in the issuance of 35 serious and two other-than-serious citations following inspections initiated in response to a complaint.
The California political community is closely watching the May 19 special election because two of the candidates have the same surname. Democrat Judy Chu and Republican Betty Chu will be listed next to each other on the ballot.
The company has "a highly involved frontline employee workforce, an excellent medical program, and energy control procedures. Safety is valued from the bottom up," said Greg Baxter, OSHA's regional administrator in Denver.
This is another example of the alarming increase in the number of pregnancy charges that this agency has seen in recent years," said Mary Jo O'Neill, regional attorney at the EEOC's Phoenix District Office.
Steven Chu is making his first visit to the Sandia National Laboratories after visiting Los Alamos National Laboratory yesterday. He’ll speak on the labs' role in advancing President Obama's nuclear security agenda.
The initial inspection carried proposed penalties totaling $25,500. The re-inspection carries $108,000 in proposed penalties.
A measure to adopt the Dec. 12, 2008, OSHA final rule is on the board's agenda for its May 4 meeting in Louisville.
Automated external defibrillators are among 25 medical devices for which FDA is telling all manufacturers to submit safety and effectiveness information so the agency can evaluate their risk levels.
Employers cannot rely on online or video training tools as the sole source of training because physical manipulation of actual components of PPE (as opposed to virtual components of PPE) must be part of the program, the agency notes.
Former flight crew members complained they suffered retaliation after raising air carrier safety concerns with the company.
The DOL Solicitor’s Office has alerted parties they have until May 19 to supplement their comments made in OSHA’s recent public hearing and until June 18 to file comments about the hearing testimony and evidence in the record.
Jordan Barab, senior labor policy advisor on health and safety issues for the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, has been tapped by Secretary Solis to be deputy assistant secretary for OSHA and acting assistant secretary, effective Monday.
The U.S. Department of Energy has issued Preliminary Notices of Violation to three contractors -- Stanford University, Pacific Underground Construction, Inc., and Western Allied Mechanical, Inc. -- for violations in September 2007 of the department’s worker safety and health regulations.
IFCO Systems North America Inc. has paid $1.6 million to its employees and been fined $963,050 in civil penalties. The same unit agreed to pay $20.6 million to the U.S. government in an immigration case, the parent company announced in December 2008.
Investigators found that an employee requested PPE while performing dry cleaning duties and the company denied the request.