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.
Loral Librascope has joined a 2000 consent decree to implement EPA's cleanup of solvent-contaminated groundwater in the Glendale Superfund site area.
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is co-sponsoring the "Import Safety Summit," an inter-industry conference to be held in Washington, DC, with eleven other organizations on July 9, 2008.
With National Safe Boating week beginning today and running through May 23, NTSB Chairman Mark V. Rosenker is reminding boaters of the importance of using good judgment by wearing personal flotation devices at all times while on the water.
With the arrival of the warmer spring weather, families across the nation are opening their windows to let the fresh air in. CPSC offers some safety tips.
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.
People age 60 and older should be vaccinated against shingles, or herpes zoster, a condition often marked by debilitating chronic pain, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended yesterday.
IAFC says the teams will serve a crucial element in the development of a National Hazardous Materials Fusion Center to analyze hamat response data.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that 90 billion people ride an escalator each year, from which, approximately 11,000 related injuries occurred in 2007. The majority of these injuries are from falls, CPSC said, but 10 percent occur when hands, feet, or shoes are trapped in escalators.
Since 1999, more than 200 people have died in recreational accidents at abandoned and active mine operations across the country; 148 of those incidents occurred in the past five years.
Data show a significant increase in rollover risk when the van is fully loaded with drivers and passengers. In 2006, 50 percent of occupant fatalities that occurred were in vans that were fully loaded. Fifty-nine percent of those killed were unbelted.
If you have already addressed stockpiling needs for your facility, OSHA invites you to please provide your underlying assumptions and methodology.
People who lived near nuclear weapons test sites or uranium mining sites about 50 years ago should be screened for cancer, the federal agency said.
"Facilities that process particularly toxic chemicals, such as lead, must follow reporting rules to ensure area residents and emergency response personnel are informed of possible chemical hazards locally," said Nathan Lau, Communities and Ecosystems Division Associate Director for EPA's Pacific Southwest region.
The company was also cited for failing to implement a mechanical integrity program for pressure relief devices and fixed equipment, and failing to correct deficiencies associated with vessel and piping wall thicknesses.
A reopened record on electrical rule and a revised HazCom standard in October are two highlights of the spring 2008 semiannual agenda.
The International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) and a coalition of consumer, health, and environmental groups filed a legal petition on May 1 with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), demanding the agency use its pesticide regulation authority to stop the sale of numerous consumer products now using nanosized versions of silver.
"You could say that electricity practically runs our lives when you think of all the modern day necessities that need it, yet most people are unaware that electrical problems are factors in nearly 150 home fires each day," said the NFPA's Lorraine Carli.
The new data, including lists of toxic substances found at facilities covered by the compensation program, will help claimants get benefits faster, DOL said.
This proposed rule, for which the agency took comments in 2005, is one of two important ones expected to be proposed in June.