The grant program is designed to help occupational safety and health practitioners advance in their career.
National Public Health Week 2009, which ends today, asks supporters to commit to making the United States the world's healthiest nation within a generation.
The company has "a highly involved frontline employee workforce, an excellent medical program, and energy control procedures. Safety is valued from the bottom up," said Greg Baxter, OSHA's regional administrator in Denver.
This is another example of the alarming increase in the number of pregnancy charges that this agency has seen in recent years," said Mary Jo O'Neill, regional attorney at the EEOC's Phoenix District Office.
The initial inspection carried proposed penalties totaling $25,500. The re-inspection carries $108,000 in proposed penalties.
Former flight crew members complained they suffered retaliation after raising air carrier safety concerns with the company.
IFCO Systems North America Inc. has paid $1.6 million to its employees and been fined $963,050 in civil penalties. The same unit agreed to pay $20.6 million to the U.S. government in an immigration case, the parent company announced in December 2008.
NIDAMED contains an online screening tool and a quick reference guide. An estimated 8 percent of the U.S. population uses illegal drugs, but few who do share the information with their physicians.
Investigators found that an employee requested PPE while performing dry cleaning duties and the company denied the request.
A survey distributed March 25 to 2,200 members asks whether they, like many occupational safety professionals, have experienced layoffs, budget cuts, hiring freezes, etc.
The American Heart Association's National Start! Walking Day is Wednesday, April 8. The goal is to promote healthy living and healthy co-worker relationships, according to the organization.
The Houma area's February unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, lowest among the nation's 372 metropolitan statistical areas. Its January rate of 3.7 also was lowest in the country.
The American Trucking Associations' Safety Management Council will present awards in September for best vehicle accident and worker injury incidence, as well as national safety director and HR professional of the year.
The goal of the two-year project is to survey six mines and identify recommendations for ensuring "a positive safety culture across the industry."
Preventing disability rather than managing it will be the new model for the claims management system of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation. An April 29 forum will discuss how to identify workers at risk of long-term disability.
Two special reports will help employers boost the ROI of their health and wellness offerings and ensure they, and their employees, are financially healthy, too.
In a field where hand washing and hygiene is of utmost importance, studies indicate compliance among health care providers is well below 50 percent, on average.
Anyone can write a safety program, but it takes a real commitment on the behalf of everyone involved to create and implement a complete safety culture. The goal of developing a safety culture is to instill the qualities that motivate workers to strive to achieve safety excellence and can be developed only if all on staff work together. Just as a group is only as strong as its weakest member, your staff is only as safe as the least-concerned worker.
"Telemundo KVDA-TV 60 is the nation's first broadcaster of Hispanic programming to earn VPP star recognition," said OSHA's Region VI Administrator Dean W. McDaniel. "The station's outstanding efforts include zero injuries and illnesses over the past three years."
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) announced in a recent news release that it has developed a new e-course, titled "Orientation on Health and Safety for New Workers," that provides a general introduction to workplace health and safety to new workers.