Starting July 31 in Arlington Heights, Ill., it is free for government agency personnel. Topics include GHS, ergonomics, workplace violence, and indoor air quality.
The assistance is free pictograms for workers in greenhouses, retail establishments, and restaurants.
From its inception in the Great Depression to today's recession, this publication has been a continual resource for worker protection.
Pieper was troubled by a recurring problem: The hospital was in dire need of places to store and deploy emergency supplies and equipment.
The amendments it proposes for its testing policy would clarify that any approved test method is acceptable, and a weight of evidence analysis suffices for eye irritants or corrosives.
The violations involve deficient lockout/tagout procedures, a lack of machine guarding, defective slings, poor housekeeping, a lack of protective footwear, and failing to have legible load ratings on slings.
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work reviewed current research on the topic and concluded knowledge of the risks posed by nanomaterials is still poor.
Calling their safety culture "poor," Dr. George Byrns details two surveys that identified many shortcomings.
The NIOSH director always draws an appreciative audience at safety and health conferences. He urged the industrial hygienists to involve themselves in international standards and to prepare for new challenges.
From Legionnaires’ Disease diagnoses among workers at an auto shredding operation to mail order pharmacy workers exposed to pill dust, students and professionals have explored interesting IH challenges recently.
The opening keynote speaker at this year’s AIHce conference spoke quietly and didn’t say much of anything about industrial hygiene until the end of his talk, but he kept his audience spellbound nonetheless. Juan Enruiquez, co-founder of Synthetic Genomics Inc. and managing director of Excel Venture Management in Boston, discussed genetic engineering and explained how it is already changing businesses around the world.
A willful violation was issued for failing to provide required training to protect employees from incidents of violent behavior by inmates, including stabbings, bites, and other injuries.
The rule requires that railroads must establish Emergency Notification Systems (ENS) by installing clear and readable signs with toll-free telephone numbers at crossings.
OSHA issued citations following a Jan. 21 inspection referred by the Illinois Department of Public Health that found two gun range operators were exposed to airborne lead levels up to 12 times the permissible level.
OSHA's Little Rock Area Office initiated an inspection in December under the agency's Process Safety Management Covered Chemical Facilities National Emphasis Program.
To be proactive in preventing accidents, employees must be properly trained on new chemical labeling and Safety Data Sheet (SDS) formats.
LIUNA and the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America say the new law significantly increases penalties for violating environmental laws related to asbestos remediation.
Plenary Session audience members at ASSE’s Denver conference and exposition were keen to know if OSHA plans to implement the Injury and Illness Prevention Programs (I2P2) standard before the presidential election this November. After being asked a few times, OSHA Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels said that there’s a possibility that the agency will try to implement I2P2 before the election, “but I’m not allowed to say,” he added.
Three educational sessions during this week’s Safety 2012 conference are devoted to the new final rule enacted by OSHA to conform its HazCom Standard to the Globally Harmonized System, and many exhibitors are seeing lots of interest from attendees.
The company failed to adequately guard processing machinery against contact with workers and provide workers with information and training on specific hazards involving disinfectants and other chemicals used in work areas, according to OSHA.