The agency funds will support sustainable activities such as the reuse and recycling of construction and demolition materials, green building and infrastructure design, energy efficiency, and water conservation.
The revisions reflect 49 CFR Part 40 changes that were published in
the Federal Register on June 25 and will become effective
August 25.
Writing in this month's American Journal of Public Health, experts say more should be done to increase these programs, especially at smaller companies.
According to the survey, more than one-third of Americans are at increased risk for insomnia.
"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.
"The investigation brings to light egregious violations of virtually
every aspect of Iowa's child labor laws," said Dave Neil, Iowa Labor
Commissioner. "It is my recommendation that the Attorney General's
Office prosecute these violations to the fullest extent of the law."
"The sizable fines proposed here reflect the breadth of hazards found
during our inspections and the fact that the company had been cited
for similar conditions in the past," said Robert Kowalski, OSHA's area
director in Bridgeport, Conn.
Workplace safety professionals who want the ability to interact with each other more than just once a year at trade shows and conferences now have a new resource.
"This is an opportunity for new owners to make a 'clean start' by correcting environmental problems that began under the previous owner's watch," said Granta Y. Nakayama, assistant administrator of EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.
ISO has published a new standard to help engineers, builders and regulators to design structures that are safe and resistant to failure due to environmental and mechanical stresses, and to material degradation.
While AEDs are increasingly being installed in public gathering places such as stadiums, shopping malls, hotels, airports, and bus terminals, their use in the workplace is just beginning to gain momentum, said Brian Trusky, vice president of loss prevention at Moss & Associates.
To help communities and businesses affected by the recent storms resume operations safely, the American Society of Safety Engineers is offering the following business resumption safety tips.
At the Sept. 17-23 International Code Council Final Action Hearing in Minneapolis, BOMA hopes to derail the required extra exit stairway for tallest buildings and an emergency responder radio coverage proposal.
Nilfisk CFM, an industrial vacuum manufacturer, launched www.nilfiskcfmblog.com so readers can share their maintenance experiences and discuss industry trends.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Clean Air Act authorizes regulation of greenhouse gases because they meet the definition of air pollutant under the Act. EPA is trying to decide how to respond to that ruling.
The second most popular response when asked what would make them more productive on the job was "enhanced health and wellness program" (10 percent).
It is critical for employers to ensure employees assisting with the lift are properly trained--including signaling, load limits, and rigging techniques--and are aware of the hazards of operating a crane.
An inspection opened in January 2008 also identified new hazards including unguarded pulleys, lack of auxiliary lighting on pallet jacks, and exposed live electrical wiring.
Looking for a solid way to boost worker involvement? If you’ve read any of my other writings or attended my presentations, you’ve likely heard me extol the paybacks of training workers as peer Safety change catalysts. I know this from worldwide experience—we’ve trained more than 20,000 such “Instructor-Catalysts” in our injury- prevention systems and have seen results that one senior manager called “miraculous” in both Safety performance and cultural turnarounds.
An internal NIST committee found that a failure in the safety management system, exacerbated by a "casual and informal research environment that appears to have valued research results above safety considerations," is the most probable root cause of the incident.