About 5,800 battery packs used with SoundStation2W Wireless Conference Phones are affected by this action.
U.S. Fire Administration and the National Fire Academy have announced the availability of a new National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) 5.0 Self Study (Q494) online course that will provide an overview of the data collection system, its modules, and data conversion issues.
Making and keeping the workplace safe and healthy will be the focus of the 5th annual "Safety Day, June 12, in Pewaukee, Wis.
"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.
June 2 is the nomination deadline for the the Billy Goldfeder Fire Service Organizational Safety Award, among others, while July 11 is the deadline for the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System Safety Leadership Award.
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 effected codes and standards will be presented at the World Safety Conference & Exposition in June. The new codes will carry a 2009 edition date, though they may be available by the end of 2008.
The U.S. Fire Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration, working in partnership with the International Fire Service Training Association (IFSTA), have developed a report that provides technical guidance and training programs in traffic incident management for fire and emergency service providers.
This year's EMS Week poster features Isiah Hollingsworth, 4, of Brooklyn, whom FDNY EMS members resuscitated in 2005 after he fell into his family's backyard swimming pool.
"The citations address a variety of hazards which, left uncorrected, expose employees to chemical burns, fire, electrocution, lacerations, amputation, falls and crushing injuries, and impede their ability to exit the workplace swiftly in the event of a fire or other emergency," said Christopher Adams, OSHA's area director in Syracuse, N.Y.
Ileana Arias, director of CDC's Injury Center, launched her new blog with a statement of the center's three priority areas for the next three to five years.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Maple Chase Company, of Plain City, Ohio, have announced a voluntary recall of the FireX Branded 10000 Series Carbon Monoxide (CO) Alarms and 12000 Series CO/Smoke Combo Alarms.
Exposure to certain pollutants and chemicals is the cause examined in the UCSF study, which was presented yesterday at a urologists' meeting,
Three employees were killed by steam and hot ash when boiler tubes ruptured in the lower vestibule/dead air space of boiler Unit #3 in the plant's boiler house in Salem, Mass.
IAFC says the teams will serve a crucial element in the development of a National Hazardous Materials Fusion Center to analyze hamat response data.
Fewer than 4 percent of the nation's firefighters are women, and more than half of paid fire departments have never hired a female firefighter, a new report states.
"Make a Difference" is the theme of the National Safety Council's 2008 National Safety Month observance and a call to action to reverse the increase in accidental injuries and deaths.
An April 8, 2008, fatality now under investigation is one of eight incidents of which the agency is aware involving multi-position waterways that were not properly secured.
"Employers have an essential and unavoidable responsibility to see to it that areas with flammable liquids and chemicals which carry significant health risks are made safe for their employees," said Richard Gilgrist, OSHA's area director in Cincinnati.