Its chairman sees "a few signs for optimism" in latest DOT report, which estimated 41,059 people died in U.S. highway crashes last year.
Cities with a population of 8,000 and greater will be eligible for inspection, and all active residential and commercial sites within a selected zip code will be inspected.
Maximum civil penalties for violations now can top $10 million, and the agency can ban toy imports made by a company whose products persistently present substantial product hazards.
The agency declared motor coach vehicles and drivers used by Liberty Charter & Tours that are or were recently affiliated with Angel Tours Inc., Iguala Busmex Inc., and Angel De La Torre to be an "imminent hazard."
FAA proposed $7.1 million in fines against American Airlines for a string of violations that include improperly deferring maintenance on safety-related equipment and violations of employee drug-testing rules.
Each newly-hired CSHO will be required to complete a minimum of eight courses offered by the OSHA Training Institute during the first three years of his/her career as a CSHO. The order and sequence of these courses are prescribed in an agency-wide Instruction posted yesterday.
The complex technical and policy issues involved and having so few OSHA inspectors trained in the subject make a cautious approach necessary, the association has told Congress.
OSHA's Region VI office in Dallas, Texas, has established a Regional Emphasis Program covering employees in the construction industry who perform crane operations. The program conducts safety inspections of workplaces in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and sites in New Mexico that are under federal OSHA jurisdiction.
Others in the scheme were sentenced to confinement, home detention,
and two years' probation. All were ordered not to work in the trucking
industry unless approved by the Probation Office.
Under the EPA's audit policy promoting self-disclosure, the agency may
reduce certain penalties for violations that are voluntarily
discovered, promptly disclosed, and quickly corrected, which is what
happened in this case.
Federal compliance officers will focus their unannounced enforcement
efforts on construction sites in the area that reaches from Daytona
Beach to Pensacola, Fla., sometime this month.
"This settlement marks a significant step in controlling harmful nitrogen oxide emissions in the Western United States," said EPA's Granta Nakayama.
"NEPA has played an important role in protecting critical habitats for ocean fish," said the Pew Environment Group's Lee Crockett. "If NEPA is undermined, fishermen will suffer yet another blow to their ability to make a living."
Legislation signed last week establishes the crime of impairing the integrity of a government licensing examination and provides means to revoke a crane inspector's license due to various offenses, including accepting a bribe.
One aspect of this agreement requires participating employers to provide effective training on worksite safety and health issues to non-English speaking employees.
MSHA has assessed $115,000 in fines against Alaska Mechanical Inc., a contractor at Alaska Gold Co.'s Nome Operations Mine, for safety violations contributing to the death of two miners in July 2007.
The plant received similar failure to abate notices and a proposed fine of $75,000 in April for failing to guard press brakes and rollers. The latest, follow-up inspection resulted in an additional $109,100 in proposed fines, in part for failing to provide employees with lockout/tagout and fire extinguisher training as it previously agreed it would, according to OSHA.
The United Kingdom, Finland, Japan, and South Korea also have ratified the 2006 ILO document recently.
According to EPA, the individual used heavy equipment to clear, grade,
and fill wetlands and streams to create a pond on his property without
first obtaining a required Clean Water Act Section 404 permit from the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
"Handling dangerous chemicals, electrical hazards, and machine
guarding problems are issues that should not exist at any worksite,"
said Richard Gilgrist, director of OSHA's area office in Cincinnati.