The Small Business Safety and Health Resource Guide has sections about individual hazards and links to regulations, training materials, and recommendations. NIOSH will update it based on readers' feedback.
Union Pacific announced all-time quarterly records July 19 in operating revenue and income. Norfolk Southern's earnings call on July 24 follows a record-breaking first quarter.
NTSB Member Mark Rosekind pointed this out in a July 20 blog post about his recent speech to the National Association of Counties' Transportation Steering Committee.
The agencies say runway excursions, controlled flight into terrain, and loss of control are the major air transport accident types, and the main contributing factors are insufficient regulatory oversight and lack of Safety Management Systems.
The Asahi Shimbun reported July 21 that they followed a superior's advice to cover their dosimeters with small lead plates to keep radiation doses low so they could continue working. The newspaper reported July 22 that Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry personnel were searching for the discarded plates.
The new regulation involves the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in the scientific evaluation of biocidal products and requires manufacturers to share data on vertebrate animal studies, as a way of reducing animal tests.
On it are a timeline of key events that shaped the safety and health industry, a poll, a detailed history of PPE, a discussion about the future of the safety profession, and more. Your comments are welcome.
The temporary enforcement policy will be in effect from July 26 to Nov. 8, 2013.
Rising temperatures have raised the wildfire risk, posing new challenges for insurers, according to the venerable British insurance body.
Timothy E. Hogan now oversees emergency and safety operations, complaint inspections, and construction accident investigations.
A research report from Britain's OSHA points out loading and unloading operations cause many of the reported injuries at companies operating them.
A subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to consider the FY2013 funding bill July 18. Rep. Hal Rogers, who chairs the committee, represents the heart of Kentucky's coal region.
The tests earlier this month took place in 20 wood-frame, brick-exterior townhouses built in the 1980s that were scheduled to be demolished.
Only 55 percent of the surveyed agencies did a federal background check, and only one-third of them conduct drug testing of their employees, a Northwestern Medicine study found.
The new advisory cites "unusually high, and prolonged, record-breaking temperatures" and highlights a recent series of derailments thought to have been caused by buckling.
The plan includes a Most Wanted Program, similar to NTSB's list.
The industry group's pipeline director, Peter Lidiak, said initiatives are under way to improve recognition of large pipeline ruptures and responses to them.
A July 18 symposium at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will launch The Lancet's series examining the global impact of physical inactivity on non-communicable diseases.
FDA, CDC, Agilent Technologies, and the University of California, Davis are collaborating on the 100K Genome Project to build a free, public database of 100,000 foodborne pathogen genomes, enabling faster pinpointing of illness outbreaks.
The $13 million settlement involves 409 of 439 willful violations of the process safety management standard OSHA filed against BP Products North America Inc. in October 2009.