The real issue is not that hearing protection has played second fiddle to other PPE products, but that there is a lack of education regarding noise-induced hearing loss.
A quick take-away from a landmark study of benzene exposure and cancer among petroleum workers: Defending trace benzene lawsuits will be more challenging.
Control banding is likely the most well-developed risk management strategy proposed for use with nanomaterials to date.
The Gaylord Resort Hotel & Convention Center at National Harbor, Md., is the site for the August 2014 event.
The guidance document recommends equipping AN storage areas with automatic fire sprinklers and not storing more than 2,500 tons of bagged AN without such a system.
Cindy Lewis, director of the Gulf Coast Safety Institute and an OSHA Challenge administrator, told the audience at her workshop that contractor safety is an issue for every site she visits.
Three students received VPPPA scholarships this year, and Deb Clingan of Miller Coors was chosen as Special Government Employee of the Year during VPPPA’s annual conference.
Highway fatality rates in 2003-2010 for workers 65 and older were three times the rates of workers ages 18-54, according to the MMWR report.
Acting Director B. Todd Jones took the oath of office at the White House. ATF, which enforces firearms and explosives laws, had no permanent director for the past seven years.
Dr. James Hedlund received the James J. Howard Highway Safety Trailblazer Award and Terry Pence, Traffic Safety Section director for the Texas Department of Transportation's Traffic Operations Division, received the Kathryn J.R. Swanson Public Service Award.
The Titan/Micoperi website for the project now shows preparations to turn the stranded ship upright are 77 percent complete.
A presentation by officials from Saint Thomas Health, TOSHA, and federal OSHA traced the Midtown Hospital's four-year effort to become the first health care VPP site in the state last year.
One has been filed in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Senate version will be filed the week of Sept. 9, VPPPA's board chairman announced.
About 2,300 people pre-registered for the event, and 300 more registered on Aug. 25 to attend it.
Virginia Tech researchers received the IEEETransactions in Automation Science and Engineering's Best Paper Award for their development of a sensor and alarm system to detect when a worker's blood oxygen level shows carbon monoxide poisoning is imminent.
The agencies' memorandum of collaboration continues their work to make oil and gas exploration safer and more environmentally sustainable, officials said.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission increased inspections after a red inspection finding was issued because of a failure of a low-pressure coolant injection valve in fall 2010.
The proposed rule would update the current permissible exposure limit, which was set in 1971, and would apply to construction and general industry, including hydraulic fracturing operations at gas drilling sites. Several key stakeholders expressed support.
Results released Aug. 22 by the UK's largest fire department show that disabled and older residents, among others, are 18 times less likely to have a fire after firefighters visit.
FDA announced it has allowed the marketing of the VITEK MS, which can identify 193 different microorganisms and perform up to 192 different tests in a single automated series of testing.