The agency reiterates that cargo airlines are free to adopt the rule voluntarily and said its new Supplemental Regulatory Impact Analysis provides even more economic evidence for excluding cargo.
According to the special report issued Dec. 11 by the safety board, between 2004 and 2009 there were 1,566 wrong-way fatal crashes in the United States that killed 2,139 people.
When the six-story CTV building fell within 20 seconds after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the city on Feb. 22, 2011, 115 of its occupants died.
Answering a petition from the Association of American Railroads, the DOT agency says it will make changes that reduce PTC costs for locomotives used in rail yards and will expand the de minimis exemption.
Robert LiMandri on Dec. 3 started the Department of Buildings' ninth annual Elevator Escalator Safety Awareness Week by visiting a Brooklyn public school to teach children in first, second, and third grades how to safely ride elevators and escalators and what to do in an emergency.
Both mentioned it during Dec. 4 presentations at the 2012 OSHA Oil & Gas Safety Conference in Dallas.
That many people were saved just from 2008 to 2010, the agency reported Nov. 30.
A new report from a National Research Council committee says the current standard sets limits that do not protect personnel working on military firing ranges from harmful exposures.
Judy Schurke's resignation as director of the parent agency of the state's Division of Occupational Safety and Health will be effective Dec. 31
FAA and OSHA proposed the new policy on Nov. 30.
One completed OSHA action ushered in the era of workers' right to understand, while a still pending crystalline silica rule could have international significance.
The agency alerted users and suppliers of copper ionization water treatment systems that this method is prohibited by the EU beginning Feb. 1, 2013.
The case is among the largest penalties proposed by the agency this year. "While I'm grateful that nobody was injured from the incident, I'm alarmed by the egregious nature of the violations we uncovered during our inspection," OSHA chief Dr. David Michaels said.
New York officials need more time to put the final touches on a nearly completed study of hydraulic fracturing's effects.
The agency said placing the monitoring system at the bottom of the windshields of about 500 commercial trucks is part of a research project.
Six serious violations have been assessed against Harrison Hoist Inc. of Grand Prairie, Texas, in connection with the collapse of part of a tower crane at a University of Texas at Dallas campus in July.
The committee meets this week in London with a packed agenda, including approval of draft amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and creation of a passenger ship safety working group.
NFPA 80's 2013 edition contains the new requirement.
The Nov. 30 NSC meeting concerns the licensee’s response to the discovery of "unexpected wear" in nearly new steam generators after a leak inside a Unit 3 steam generator tube early this year.
BSEE has ordered Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations, LLC, to submit a performance improvement plan by Dec. 15 and to take several corrective actions immediately.