The Health and Safety Executive introduced the strategy June 3 as a way to achieve much lower injury and fatality numbers. Managers' role in training and motivating safe work will be critical in achieving the goals.
In an address to the New Jersey Motorcoach Association, NTSB Acting Chairman Mark V. Rosenker called on the motorcoach industry to voluntarily move toward fleets equipped with lap/shoulder belts.
The aircraft, an Airbus 330-200 carrying 216 passengers and 12 crewmembers, left Rio de Janeiro for Paris at 7 p.m. local time on Sunday and went off the radar eight hours later. Reports indicate the plane may have been hit by lightning.
'World No Tobacco Day 2009' on May 31 is the occasion for a campaign to make packaging more alarming, to warn smokers and potential smokers more directly.
"Obtaining a WHTI-approved document and complying with the law will help make our borders more secure," said CBP Acting Commissioner Jayson P. Ahern. "We will be practical and flexible in implementing this new travel requirement, but encourage travelers to get these documents now to expedite border crossings from day one."
Kennith D. Brock, CSP, helped create a scholarship endowment program for the ASSE Foundation that has grown to more than $1.7 million today.
The second annual workshop is geared to owners, operators, and crewmen of small passenger vessels, which are classified as commercial vessels that carry six or more paying passengers.
The standard, Z490.1-2009, covers all areas of training, including training development, delivery, evaluation, and management of training and training programs, ASSE says.
"It's plain and simple: when you need your life jacket, you need it on," says Al Johnson, the U.S. Coast Guard's First District recreational boating safety specialist, commenting on the correlation between boating fatalities and the lack of the survival equipment used.
OSHA, the New Jersey School Development Authority (NJSDA), and the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOLWD) have renewed their alliance to promote workplace safety and health on New Jersey school construction sites during a signing ceremony at NJSDA headquarters in Trenton.
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Acting Chairman Nancy Nord recently announced that a lease has been signed to expand and modernize the agency's testing facilities. The new facility, located off the "I-270 Technology Corridor" in Rockville, Md., will enhance CPSC's efforts to protect the public from dangerous consumer products and brings scientists and engineers together in one testing facility.
President Obama has chosen Dr. Thomas Frieden, commissioner of New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for seven years, to replace Julie Gerberding atop CDC, according to news reports today.
Mexico has recorded 60 deaths, and the count of countries where cases have turned up remained at 33 today, WHO said in its daily update.
"We want participants to be as imaginative and creative as possible, and to explore ways in which photography can highlight the need for safe and healthy workplaces," the agency says. The top-ranked photo, chosen by an international jury of professional photographers, will win 3,000 euros.
OSHA has certified the RP&L Division of American Packaging Corp. in Columbus as a star site in its prestigious Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP).