Company executives christened a gleaming new Training & Customer Experience Center where workers can get hands-on experience with confined space entry and rescue, communication tower climbing/rescue, servicing a wind energy nacelle, installing and using fall anchorages on a residential roof, and rescuing a co-worker from an oil rig’s catwalk and pipe rack.
Based on its investigation of the Lac-Megantic derailment, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada sent advisory letters to U.S. and Canadian agencies, and NTSB said it shares TSB's concerns.
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
And the number of labs being seized this year is up significantly, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine reported.
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.
Chicago's McCormick Place once again will host one of the world's largest conferences for environmental, health, and safety professionals.
The guidance document recommends equipping AN storage areas with automatic fire sprinklers and not storing more than 2,500 tons of bagged AN without such a system.
The two DOT agencies, FRA and PHMSA, want to hearing from stakeholders because they have begun a review of operational factors that affect the safe transportation of hazmats by rail.
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.
Among other things, railroad employees responsible for securing trains must tell train dispatchers the number of hand brakes applied, the tonnage and length of the train, the grade and terrain features of the track, any relevant weather conditions, and the type of equipment being secured.
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.
The letter from U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who chairs the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, also cited the devastating Lac Megantic derailment and fire in Canada on July 6.
One recommendation that will be implemented is creation of an Interagency Refinery Task Force housed within California Environmental Protection Agency.
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.
There are five hazardous waste management regulations that improve worker safety.
Companies should work directly with an industrial vacuum supplier to assess facilities' needs and goals.