Because damage can be widespread and severe, responders need effective and rapid consequence modeling of the hazardous materials emanating from a fire.
"Simsmetal East knowingly put its workers at risk by failing to protect them from overexposure to lead, which can cause brain damage, paralysis, kidney disease, and even death," said Kris Hoffman, director of OSHA's Parsippany Area Office in New Jersey.
Enterprise Inns plc was fined $478,000 in a case involving a tenant landlord who died in November 2007 of carbon monoxide poisoning. The company owns about 7,700 pubs across the United Kingdom.
The 2016 target for federal agencies' rate for lost-time injuries and illnesses is 1.07, which is a 27 percent improvement from 2009's 1.48, according to the DOL plan.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System on 3,471 acres of land on the California/Nevada border. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hailed the technology in AIHce's opening keynote speech this year.
EEOC said the company refused to hire a single-arm amputee based on his disability. The agency further charged that the firm commingled the medical records of employees, such as doctor’s notes, with other personnel records, thus failing to maintain the confidentiality of those medical records.
The "golden thread" running through the 52,000-employee company's global operations is its culture, which makes everyone responsible and accountable for safe performance in the drive for zero incidents, says Michael R. Gambrell, executive vice president for manufacturing and engineering operations.
First and foremost, the hazard itself should be the most prominent consideration when choosing a specific piece of emergency equipment.
Typically, about 85 percent of the loss in slip resistance after 5,000 cycles has already occurred after 500 cycles.
Infrared imaging technology helps to improve electricians' on-the-job safety.
Such designs reduce staff stress and fatigue, improve patient safety, lower patient stress, and raise overall health care quality.
IFMA's 2010 World Workplace Conference & Expo opens Oct. 27 at the Georgia World Congress Center, giving thousands of facility management professionals a look at the newest products, greenest buildings, and best strategies for their careers and their operations back home.
OSHA announced its approval of the Pasadena, Calif.-based engineering and construction firm on Monday.
At a conference preparing for national oil bargaining in 2012, union Vice President Gary Beevers described a mentality of running equipment until it fails and delaying turnarounds.
Gy Bennar, a former landscaping and maintenance worker for the public golf course at the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark, filed a whistleblower retaliation charge against the Southwestern Oklahoma Development Authority irrigating a golf course with untreated effluent from sewage that had not undergone proper filtration or chlorination, exposing both golfers and workers to potentially harmful toxins.
According to DOE, the 2009 IECC now available will produce approximately 15 percent in residential energy efficiency gains compared to the 2006 edition.
Meeting Oct. 12 and Oct. 20, the commissioners will examine progress to date on integrating safety throughout the Commerce Department organization.
A worker died when he became caught in moving parts of a machine known as a stacker, which activated while he was inside the machine performing maintenance.
The agency that provides security for thousands of government buildings is understaffed and badly managed, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman and others on the committee say.
Criteria considered for the annual Secretary of the Navy award include mishap trend analysis, safety inspections, and initiatives beyond what the Navy's safety regulations require.