The National Emergency Grant funds will increase the overall approved number of participants in the temporary work program from 600 to 767 and extend the project through Dec. 31, 2009.
With rigs in use in many non-traditional areas, emergency responders and company health and safety professionals must work together.
This California Department of Public Health training aid says the best way to prevent heat stress is to keep your body cool by drinking plenty of water and taking breaks to cool off when needed.
Each year when federal statistics are released, it comes as little surprise that violations of OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard are among the top 10 safety citations issued to general industry. With more than 4,000 violations issued each year, OSHA continues to make it quite clear that having a dusty, nearly empty binder of MSDS wedged on the top shelf of someone's office is not enough.
Imagine you've been thrust into the cockpit of a packed commercial airliner on its final approach, you've never piloted an airplane—and now, you're at the controls. "Scary" doesn't begin to describe how almost anybody would feel in a situation that pressure-packed and urgent.
As of last Thursday, according to CDC, 69 people from 29 states had been infected with the outbreak strain; 34 people had been hospitalized, nine with a severe complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome, but no one had died.
The Plainview, Minn.-based site is voluntarily recalling instant nonfat dried milk, whey protein, fruit stabilizers, and gums (thickening agents) that it has manufactured over the past two years and sold to industry customers, including distributors and manufacturers but not directly to the public.
The association's fireworks page includes videos, a report, fact sheet, and statistics about the thousands of injuries recorded every year around the Fourth of July.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating two recent incidents in which airspeed and altitude indications in the cockpits of Airbus A-330 aircraft may have malfunctioned.
Going head to head in two sizzling destination cities this week are the annual conferences of the American Society of Safety Engineers (San Antonio, featuring Labor Secretary Hilda Solis) and the Society for Human Resource Management (New Orleans, featuring business titan Jack Welch).
Centennial Contractors Enterprises and the OSHA Region X have signed an alliance establishing a collaborative relationship to foster safer and more healthful American workplaces. Through the alliance, Centennial employees and others will be provided with information, guidance, and access to training resources.
From the west coast to the east coast, Americans are experiencing record-breaking temperatures. Some states are reporting triple-digit numbers and the heat has been the cause of several reported deaths.
The beef products were produced April 21 and 22, 2009, and were shipped to distributors and retail establishments in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and Wisconsin.
This prediction is contained in a new report the Safe Work Australia Council agreed to post at its first meeting earlier this month. The council also created a Strategic Issues Group to write the planned model OSH act.
The awareness campaign "seeks to get impaired boaters off the water, while making them aware of the legal consequences as well as the potentially fatal effects of boating under the influence," says Al Johnson, the First Coast Guard District's recreational boating safety specialist.
According to the association, counterfeiting of certain electrical products has been on the rise as evidenced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that rank electrical products fifth in counterfeit imports.
An enhanced wind shear across the tropical Pacific coupled with relatively cool temperatures in the Atlantic "will almost certainly result in a less-active season than last year, and could potentially result in an unusually quiet season," said WSI seasonal forecaster Dr. Todd Crawford.
The agency posted the information Tuesday to help this group of workers and their managers address bloodborne pathogens exposures.
The agency advises workers to take preventive measures such as reducing physical exertion and wearing light, loose-fitting clothing and says employers should provide workers with water and regular rest periods in a cool recovery area.
Three separate companies were issued willful violations for failing to provide a competent person to supervise the removal of a ceiling that contained asbestos, to provide the required respiratory equipment, and to inform workers that the worksite contained asbestos.