The company allegedly failed to correct workplace health and safety hazards cited from previous OSHA inspections.
Researchers will try to correlate head injuries with later health problems through the two-year, $2.4 million study.
Foss Manufacturing Co. in Hampton, NH, received $115,000 in proposed fines along with the citations.
"We hit a sweet spot. We'll be here for the long haul," Honeywell Life Safety President Mark Levy said Sept. 18.
According to ANSI standards, fall protection equipment should be inspected by the user before each use and inspected at least once a year by a competent person.
Nevada OSHA inspectors issued six citations against Cirque du Soleil and three against the hotel-casino because of Sarah Guillot-Guyard's death last July.
Sailors must now wear life jackets when watching topside aboard Navy submarines.
The goal of the effort by the Philadelphia Insurance Companies is to help businesses avoid serious slips and falls during the fall and winter.
The deadline is Jan. 10, and the awards will be presented at the Indiana Safety and Health Conference and Expo, which will be held Feb. 18-20, 2014, in Indianapolis.
The National Safety Council's big annual conference will return to the Southern California city, which is planning to expand its convention center.
The top ten list announced Sept. 30 contains many familiar items, including Hazard Communication, powered industrial trucks, lockout/tagout, and electrical general requirements.
The vast expo hall in Chicago's McCormick Place was crowded during expo-only hours on Sept. 30 as the biggest U.S. safety trade show of the year got under way in earnest.
To earn a certificate, participants must complete a minimum of seven courses totaling at least 68 hours of in-class training.
The Nov. 14 national safety stand down is for onshore oil and gas exploration and production operations.
With the agricultural season still under way, the U.S. Labor Department reminds us how easily grain bin engulfment can happen.
Company executives christened a gleaming new Training & Customer Experience Center where workers can get hands-on experience with confined space entry and rescue, communication tower climbing/rescue, servicing a wind energy nacelle, installing and using fall anchorages on a residential roof, and rescuing a co-worker from an oil rig’s catwalk and pipe rack.
The beet sugar company looks at tens of thousands of dollars in fines after employees were burned in separate incidents.
Cal/OSHA and the state Labor Commissioner's Office are two of the agencies participating in it.
OSHA worked with more than 300 employers and labor organizations on the Sept. 3 stand-down at building sites in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.
Violations issued after BSA worker fell 16 feet due to guardrail collapse in 2011.