The Dow Corning Co. Ltd. Songjiang plant in Shanghai was honored for a "Have 2 Ways Out" training initiative, which included drills, posters, banners and online materials during Fire Prevention Week.
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The agency opened the public docket, making available more than 1,400 pages of documents on the December 2012 explosion in West Virginia.
However, property crimes and arson offenses declined, according to the agency's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, released June 3.
According to a Chinese newspaper, only one door at the facility was unlocked.
This age group is at a higher fire risk than the rest of the population, and high-frequency smoke alarms in many existing homes are a problem, it says.
Its May 28 announcement of a fire safety forum for them came in response to the inquest on the Lakanal House fire that killed six people in Jul y 2009.
The May 31 fire was the deadliest single incident in the long history of the Houston Fire Department.
Simply put, any time you have a spark, heat, and oxygen near a filter system, you run the risk of a smoldering fire or spontaneous combustion within the system.
ASSE's Safety 2013 conference includes more than 250 sessions and one of the best safety and health exhibit halls of the year.
A fireball resulted when an employee mixed two volatile materials together in a bucket, burning him and causing serious damage to the building where he worked.
The international flavor of AIHce 2013 transcended the host city. Speakers, exhibitors, and educational topics reflected the global nature of industrial hygiene and workplace safety.
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and Interior Secretary Jewell visited the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise on May 13 and said communities should be ready because the outlook is for a severe fire season.
The state fire marshal's office and the ATF will announce the results of their joint investigation at 4 p.m. CDT May 16.
In the aftermath of the Bangladesh garment factory building collapse, killing more than 1,100, global retail companies have signed an agreement to improve safety.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced three recalls to tied fire hazards.
The U.S. Department of Labor reports minimal fire damage but some water impact to the fourth, third, second, and plaza levels of the Francis Perkins Building resulted from sprinkler activation.
Any future combustible dust legislation or regulation must include local, regional, and state governmental participants and an understanding of the breadth of combustible dust-related fires.
MMWR published an analysis of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data for 2003-2010, which tabulated 128 deaths in offshore and on-shore operations.
The investigative hearing into the Jan. 7 lithium-ion battery fire takes place in Washington, D.C. on April 23-24.