Sharing lab safety training curriculum among organizations to improve safety culture is the right way to improve lab safety for all concerned.
OSHA has proposed $72,800 in fines against Cleveland Tank & Supply Inc., with 19 serious health and safety violations cited.
NSC describes the Safety Trail in the central aisle of the expo as "a visual journey through corridors of safety milestones from the last century."
BLS released its 2011 summary of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data on Sept. 20. Deaths in private construction declined for the fourth consecutive year.
UL Environment produced "Navigating the Product Mindset," which is based on a 2011 quantitative survey of consumers and manufacturers in China, Germany, India, and the United States.
A rail chemical emergency response scenario will be one of the highlights of the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals' 2012 National Conference.
After employees allegedly were exposed to dangerous chemicals, including lead, OSHA has notified the Navy about 21 serious violations.
The British agency has opened a public consultation on proposals to exempt some self-employed people from health and safety legislation.
a national nuclear security regime stands or falls because of the quality of people involved," said Khammar Mrabit, director of the Office of Nuclear Security.
Before rolling out any management system, communicate your plans with all stakeholders, detailing the benefits and how it will affect their work tasks.
Considerable testing of chemicals that are handled in the workplace may be required. This could include flash point, reactivity, or corrosivity.
John Bresland, who has served on the U.S. Chemical Safety Board since August 2002, is retiring Aug. 31 to join the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center as a Research Fellow.
The agency wants to have its proposed rule adopted by Jan. 1, 2013, when most of the relevant international standards take effect.
The agency will take comments until Sept. 12.
The International Nuclear Information System, INIS, hosts one of the world’s largest collections of published information about peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.
These plans are instrumental to ensuring compliance and keeping workers safe.
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Although it is currently focused on undergraduate colleges and universities in New Hampshire, free introductory safety training courses at LabSafetyWorkspace.org are open to researchers anywhere.
The Small Business Safety and Health Resource Guide has sections about individual hazards and links to regulations, training materials, and recommendations. NIOSH will update it based on readers' feedback.
The new regulation involves the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in the scientific evaluation of biocidal products and requires manufacturers to share data on vertebrate animal studies, as a way of reducing animal tests.