The Department of Energy issued a Preliminary Notice of Violation (PNOV) to CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc. for nuclear safety violations involving a spill of approximately 85 gallons of radioactive waste.
From 1992-2006, a total of 11,303 Hispanic workers died from work-related injuries. The death rate for Hispanic workers was consistently higher than the rate for all U.S. workers, and the proportion of deaths among foreign-born Hispanic workers increased over time.
The department conducted six public hearings on the proposed rule and made changes to the final rule in response to hundreds of comments.
“When companies are planning major strategic activities, the consideration of environmental risk remains the exception rather than the rule," according to Karl Russek, senior VP for ACE Environmental Risk.
"This horrible tragedy underscores the need for all employers to implement effective safety and health management systems," said Louis Ricca Jr., acting administrator for OSHA's New York region.
"This case illustrates in the starkest possible terms why effective safeguards are necessary to prevent death and injury on the job," said Christopher Adams, OSHA's area director in Syracuse, N.Y.
Two of the three firms cited are each receiving a willful violation for failing to have a qualified person determine if the structure could support the additional three-quarters of an inch of wet concrete weight that was added to the 20-inch floor slab.
"The company has consistently demonstrated a strong commitment to employee safety and health, and has maintained an injury and illness rate 51 percent below the industry average," said Robert Szymanski, director of OSHA's Pittsburgh Area Office.
Over the next five years, EPA estimates the proposed standards to reduce the combined emissions of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 42,000 tons per year.
Study findings show that mercury emissions average about 0.2 tons per year per facility.
At booth 1911, industry professionals are giving demonstrations every half hour with volunteer attendees as their patients.
The company's Delaware Fulfillment Center in New Castle predominately warehouses books and music CDs, with 450 employees servicing millions of online customers.
Organizations that care about their employees care about safety and will go to great lengths to communicate the importance of working safely. Regular safety meetings, creative safety contests, safety Web sites, sharing lessons learned—safety communicators tend to use a variety of methods to distribute procedures and critical safety information to help employees plan and perform work.
The new award is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in hearing loss prevention.
"Together, the new Fire and Building Codes will improve safety while also making it easier for construction professionals, designers, property owners, businesses, and others to work here more efficiently and understand their obligations under the law," NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
A new report says training and management deficiencies in most countries of Africa, Central Asia, Oceania, and the Caribbean "are so pervasive and broad that there is no effective international system of biosafety at the moment."
The Electrical Safety Foundation International wants owners of aging homes to see whether those homes are protected with Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters and to install them if not.
FirePASS's William Costello said the technology could have prevented February's Imperial Sugar Refinery explosion in Port Wentworth, Ga. OSHA chief Edwin Foulke Jr. responded with a letter clarifying the agency's denial of variance for the system.
The course provides instruction about federal environmental laws and regulations, compliance standards, health requirements, state-of-the-art technologies, and best practices.