Photoluminescent technology provides a new level of safety, as well as egress lighting.
The required compliance deadline will now go into effect Sept. 15, 2012.
From its inception in the Great Depression to today's recession, this publication has been a continual resource for worker protection.
It is one of two Shell Exploration & Production Co. drilling rigs en route from Seattle to the Arctic waters off Alaska to drill exploratory wells in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
The amendments it proposes for its testing policy would clarify that any approved test method is acceptable, and a weight of evidence analysis suffices for eye irritants or corrosives.
That would be a low total in historical terms. The council's predictions have been very accurate in past years.
Judith Hackitt will serve until October 2015 as chair of the Health and Safety Executive.
The proposal published on June 27 will clarify which personnel must receive periodic training and also says railroads’ preparedness plans must address the safe evacuation of people with disabilities.
The agency had ordered airlines to remove all chemical oxygen generators in March 2011. Airlines and aircraft manufacturers sought up to five years to retrofit, saying there are no actual designs yet for new systems.
The Aug. 21 event in Arlington, Va., comes as OSHA is nearing completion of a confined spaces rule for construction and Cal/OSHA has launched a special emphasis program, ISEA President Dan Shipp noted.
The violations involve deficient lockout/tagout procedures, a lack of machine guarding, defective slings, poor housekeeping, a lack of protective footwear, and failing to have legible load ratings on slings.
NIOSH identified seven primary sources of silica dust exposure during fracturing operations and found that workers downwind of sand mover and blender operations, especially during hot loading, had the highest silica exposures.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed four bills to list K2 and others as Schedule 1 drugs, while DEA thanked congressional negotiators June 19 for agreeing to add 26 synthetic drugs to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association®'s new white paper suggesting directions for the agency's next five years is also an endorsement of its mandate.
OSHA initiated a December 2011 inspection following a referral from the Pennsylvania State Department of Health indicating that employees had high levels of lead in their blood.
A worker had several fingers amputated while operating an unguarded press break March 19 at the company’s Wooster, Ohio, plant. A second amputation injury occurred April 19 at the plant.
John C. Sheptor detailed his company's four-year recovery process from a devastating explosion to an AIHce audience June 20 and said their 18,000-item action plan will be finished this year.
A contract employee who was cleaning and sanitizing a machine used in the hummus manufacturing process was caught, pulled into the machine, and crushed to death between two rotating augers.
The company has been issued nine serious safety and health violations for failing to monitor workers' exposure to nickel, chromium, hydrochloric acid, and sulfuric acid while cleaning electroplating tanks.
States that have them saved almost four times more per registered motorcycle than those without these laws, according to the study in CDC's MMWR.