About 94,000 of the Kidde Model PI2000 units are being recalled because of reported malfunctions involving electrostatic discharge during installation.
The site in Agawam, Mass., was admitted for three years of participation at the star level following an OSHA team’s three-day onsite review, which included an examination of the facility’s safety and health management system, interviews with employees, and a complete tour of the plant.
Training programs will be offered on a monthly basis and are normally conducted jointly by personnel from both the Delaware Safety Council and OSHA.
In addition, EPA alleges the manufacturer violated notification and recordkeeping requirements and requirements to continuously monitor emissions from its boilers.
Among the charges against the company are citations for four repeat violations for failing to conduct and document inspections and tests on process equipment, conduct the proper process hazard analysis (PHA), and maintain adequate process safety information.
According to Steven Spotts, vice president and general manager at Sperian Protective Gloves USA, the acquisition of a state-of-the-art glove manufacturing facility in Nantong, China; the recently established Global R&D center in France; and the current economic uncertainty have necessitated the decision to close the Buffalo, N.Y. facility.
Following these suggestions will promote productivity out of your most experienced workers while avoiding the costs of accidents and injury.
Britain's Health and Safety Executive set the record straight last month on the question of wearing flip-flops to work.
"You are not alone," Jordan Barab assured the packed audience of safety professionals present for ASSE's Safety 2009 in San Antonio. "We have your back and your fight is our fight."
For outstanding service to the safety profession and workplace, the American Society of Safety Engineers today named ASSE Past-President James “Skipper” Kendrick, CSP, of Hurst, Texas, as Society Fellow.
OSHA inspection personnel from other states will be in Texas in July to check for unsafe scaffolds, fall hazards, trenching violations, and other potential injury and fatality hazards, the Labor secretary announced in her speech Monday morning at Safety 2009.
The Illinois facility was storing chlorine and diesel fuel over the minimum threshold level and failed to provide emergency and hazardous chemical inventory forms to state and local authorities, EPA said.
The facility, which manufactures bottled water products, has had an injury and illness rate nearly 70 percent below the industry average for three years, OSHA said.
The agency wants comments by Aug. 4 on how it should write a rule that will require accidental chemical releases to be reported to it or to the National Response Center.
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.
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.
In Georgia alone, the agency has conducted 32 visits to targeted sites during the 16-month period, issuing 311 citations, 90 percent of which are classified as willful, serious, repeat, or failure to abate.
Focusing on the latest developments in process analytical technology, the event will feature a number of short courses, an exhibition, and networking receptions.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 offers $20 billion for energy efficiency programs, creating unprecedented opportunity for energy services companies. State and federal programs are expanding to improve residential, institutional, government, commercial, and industrial facilities nationwide.
Michael D. Brown also will be speaking on themes of Communicating in a Crisis and Making Things Work When All the Wires Are Cut in his general session keynote at the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals National Conference in September.