The alliance partners jointly will develop training and education programs for new hires in the auto sales, repair, and service industry regarding job-related safety and health issues.
During the 2005-2006 flu season, only 42 percent of surveyed health care workers received a flu vaccination despite their increased risk of exposure to the contagious and potentially deadly infection.
"There is no excuse for endangering employees and ignoring OSHA standards by having the proper safety equipment at the worksite but not using it," said Clyde Payne, OSHA's acting area director in Mobile, Ala.
"We have long realized that accurate safety information, proper education, and training are synonymous with managing the risks we face on a day-to-day basis," said BCSC Executive Director Bryan Lowes.
The committee's two-day meeting in Washington, D.C., also will include a construction standards update from OSHA's directorate of construction.
The live-action afternoon demolition will be part of the group’s national conference, Sept. 7-10.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has released a comprehensive safety video on the massive explosion which shook Danvers, Mass., a suburb of Boston, on Nov. 22, 2006.
Another 25 organizations won Alfred P. Sloan Awards for the second time, the sponsoring organizations announced, and MIOSHA claimed an award.
Beginning next month, hospitals participating in the HHS-administered Hospital Preparedness Program must provide executive summaries of the results of disaster drills they conduct.
Safety Authority president and CEO Harry Diemer said the numbers show that industry in the province is taking public safety seriously, but he added there is always room for improvement.
“[T]he crises ahead are increasing both in complexity and frequency; yet, levels of crises readiness among organizations remains low and poorly understood,” writes Paul C. Light, author of new report available for free download.
"Preventing staff injury is good business from the financial
standpoint, but also, it is the right thing to do," said Gary
Brunslik, Manager of Safety for the winning facility.
When asked, "What is keeping you from addressing this issue?" the
number one response was "Don't know how to begin."
"What was in the air that day? Pretty much everything that had been in
two 100-story buildings--but in vaporized form," writes Mike Magee,
M.D. in this week's issue of Health Commentary.
The initiative includes a $1 million grant program aimed at the
prevention of HACs targeted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services.
Beginning Jan. 1, colleges and universities must have and practice emergency response plans. Shootings last February at Northern Illinois University spurred new emergency readiness initiatives.
In FY 2007, federal employees and applicants filed 16,363 complaints alleging employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, or reprisal--down from 16,723 complaints in FY 2006 and 18,000 complaints in FY 2005.
The United States Fire Administration released yesterday, as part of its technical report series, a new report titled Twelve Fatality Hotel Arson: Reno, Nevada.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has been named as the 2008 recipient of the American Chemical Society's Howard Fawcett Award, honoring "outstanding contributions in the field of chemical health and safety," marking the first time the 25-year-old award has been presented to an entire organization.
Formerly a branch of the Engineering PS, this group is the first to make this jump under the current council guidelines.