Concentrating on rail and highway incidents, PHMSA asks whether there are gaps or overlaps in current regulations.
OSHA, the American Chemistry Council, the American Petroleum Institute, and other organizations were involved in their development.
PHMSA officials will discuss what they found in reviews of more than 1,500 public awareness programs submitted by pipeline operators last year.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has proposed a civil penalty of $19,200 against Alpha Omega Services Inc., (AOS) of Bellflower, Calif., and barred the company president from NRC-licensed activity for deliberately falsifying an inspection report on a package used for transporting radioactive materials.
Because of heightened security concerns and recent hazmat transportation incidents, the shipping paper has come under more scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and state inspectors than ever before. Shippers and carriers are being asked to demonstrate their compliance with all regulations for preparing their hazardous materials for shipment. Moreover, of the 304 civil enforcement actions closed from May 2005 to April 2006, 215 were shippers in violation of one or more of the hazmat regulations.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission's evaluation of consumer lead test kits showed consumers can't rely on them to correctly measure lead in paint and other products.
DHS' proposed relocation of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center is one focus of a U.S. House subcommittee's investigation and hearings.
To help ensure that hazardous chemicals are used and handled safety in the workplace, OSHA created the Hazard Communication (HazCom) standard, 29 CFR 1910.1200, in 1994. The standard requires employers to create a program to properly handle hazardous chemicals in their workplaces.
No new bronchiolitis obliterans cases since 2003 among microwave popcorn manufacturing workers have come to its attention, OSHA said in its notice announcing the meeting.
The U.S. Postal Service chose to require pre-primary receptacles comply with OSHA's bloodborne pathogens standard rather than FDA's 510(k) approval.
Nine metric tons of plutonium, enough to make more than 1,000 nuclear weapons, will be turned into mixed-oxide fuel commercial power reactors in coming decades, DOE Secretary Bodman said Sept. 17.
THIRTY-two million workers (roughly 10 percent of our population) are potentially exposed to an estimated 650,000 hazardous chemical products each day in more than 3 million American workplaces, according to recent OSHA statistics. Having a solid safety program helps keep your employees from being a statistic. Safety is a major concern in most businesses across the country, and
AS the number of regulations increases worldwide, companies are being held increasingly responsible for the safety of products they manufacture and/or use in the workplace. Not everyone is aware, however, that EH&S compliance is required at multiple steps throughout the lifecycle of a hazardous material or chemical, including during research and development, testing, manufacturing, transportation, usage and disposal.
COMPLIANCE requirements for using and storing flammable liquids in the workplace are quite detailed and specific. Unfortunately, the requirements are spread over a number of agencies and multiple documents.
CHEMICALS and the potential risk of exposure to their vapors go hand in hand, making worker protection a complex challenge for many firms. For CH2M HILL, a prime contractor on the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site in Washington State, the complexity of this challenge is compounded by large volumes of radioactive waste intermixed with the chemicals.