The letter from U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who chairs the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, also cited the devastating Lac Megantic derailment and fire in Canada on July 6.
Its advance notice of proposed rulemaking is accompanied by a non-regulatory document, an independently produced "Preliminary Scientific Evaluation of the Possible Public Health Effects of Menthol Versus Nonmenthol Cigarettes."
The reconstruction of I-74 and I-55 in Tazewell County by Fred Weber Inc. includes demolishing six bridges and two tunnels, replacing several miles of pavement, and rebuilding ramps.
FAA Administrator Michael Huerta and the leaders of 11 aviation associations have sent a letter to all U.S.-registered pilots asking them to read prescription labels carefully and talk with their doctors to determine whether drugs they’re taking could impair their performance in the cockpit.
The agency issued them July 18 in response to the fire six days earlier on board an unoccupied Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft parked at London Heathrow airport.
The companies had promised to conduct the audits after two major dust explosions last year.
The July 26 event is scheduled to take place at the agency’s headquarters in Frankfort.
That was the consensus during a July 17 meeting of the Emergency Committee. The committee will reconvene in September, if not earlier.
The notice of proposed rulemaking would align its regulations with the 2010 Coast Guard Authorization Act.
One recommendation that will be implemented is creation of an Interagency Refinery Task Force housed within California Environmental Protection Agency.
If the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's members agree in a July 25 public meeting to that designation, it will be the first "Most Wanted Chemical Safety Improvement" selected in CSB's history.
The agency reported the breakthrough July 8 and said "Team Tomato" has published two studies recently in scientific journals.
A robust risk management policy and a multi-layer disaster recovery plan are essential to safe operations in disaster-prone areas.
Proven strategies and technologies will protect workers and speed the recovery from arc flash incidents in mining operations.
The society signed an agreement last month to work with Chinese workplace safety professionals and announced July 10 that it will work with Russia's National Association of Centers for Occupational Safety and Health.
The California senator chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee, which held an oversight hearing last month about the West, Texas, explosion and two other blasts.
Joe Salley, Ph.D., the company's president and CEO, will discuss "Safety From the CEO's Perspective" on the second day of the conferences.
The committee's members are international experts who will meet July 9 and July 11.
The Approved Codes of Practice for working with asbestos-containing materials are being consolidated.
Great Britain has had one of the lowest fatality rates in leading industrial nations in Europe for the past eight years.