It's critical to ensure that key chemical safety information and inventory management functions are readily available and at the fingertips of your personnel.
The top ten list announced Sept. 30 contains many familiar items, including Hazard Communication, powered industrial trucks, lockout/tagout, and electrical general requirements.
Employers should be prepared to address new hazards for chemicals, even for chemicals that have been used in the workplace for years.
ChemView displays health and safety data, making it possible to compare chemicals by use and by health or environmental effects, and it allows searches by chemical name or Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) number, use, hazard effect, or regulatory action
DOT's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration first offered the free, mobile web app of its 2012 ERG in January 2013 to assist emergency responders.
OSHA will be able to enforce some safety and health standards not currently covered by FAA oversight.
The agency's new guidance "reflects MSHA's understanding that many mine operators are meeting OSHA's HazCom Standard," according to the MSHA news release.
The forum taking place Monday morning, Aug. 26, will be moderated by VPPPA board member Stephen Gauthier and is scheduled to be attended by OSHA Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels.
The settlement resolves two enforcement cases and applies to all 2,857 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores in OSHA's jurisdiction.
The Aug. 2 signing came one day after his executive order directing EPA, DHS, DOL, and DOJ to collaborate more, sharing information about high-risk facilities, inspections, enforcement, and incident investigation.
The Chemical Safety Improvement Act, a bipartisan agreement, was a welcome surprise from Capitol Hill.
New safety initiatives and a National Academy of Sciences study have come in response to dozens of accidents in recent years at industrial and academic labs.
Oct. 1’s third keynote session, a new addition to the educational program this year, looks like a "must attend" session of its own: the Prescription Drug Keynote.
The Aug. 26-29 national conference, one of the top annual events on the safety community's calendar, will take place at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center in Nashville.
The agency's Nuclear Data Section's Isotope Browser will provide quick information on the properties of more than 4,000 isotopes.
The California senator chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee, which held an oversight hearing last month about the West, Texas, explosion and two other blasts.
"Enhanced global efforts are needed to share expertise, to assess, and to manage the risks associated with exposure to hazardous chemicals," according to the agency.
When your data shows a troublesome negative trend, rely on core safety principles that have worked throughout the years to get things turned around and your program back on track.
The June 8-11 event in Orlando will be here before you know it, and it follows a highly successful conference in another prime destination, Las Vegas.
Forestry and building and framing are two industries where the agency believes many temps are employed.