Diamond Sponsor DNV Business Assurance says the Global Food Safety Conference is the most important event of the year that is focused on this topic.
India is a growing reinsurance market for Lloyd’s. The top classes it writes there are offshore energy, property catastrophe, terrorism, cargo, and aviation excess of loss risks.
In a speech summarizing activities during 2011, Assistant Secretary Joe Main said the backlog went below 67,000 cases in December. He said coal mining operations have increased since the Upper Big Branch tragedy in April 2010, proving enforcement hasn't inhibited the industry's growth.
DOL and other U.S. authorities will work with India's officials on common issues, including workers' safety and mine safety and health.
Employees of the company’s corn research facility in Olivia, Minn., received the honor Jan. 25.
Across the country, particularly in the Midwest and Northeast, heavy snowfall, ice jams, rapid snowmelt, and intense rainstorms caused by fluctuating temperatures can all increase the likelihood and the severity of localized flooding.
The free podcasts on a variety of occupational safety, health, and environmental topics are available at ASSE’s virtual classroom.
The Empire State Building was lit blue and orange for the evening of Feb. 3 to mark the day, for the second year in a row.
The initiative will focus on 14 safety standards that were chosen because violations related to each have been cited as contributing to at least five mining accidents and at least five deaths during the 10-year period of Jan. 1, 2001, to Dec. 31, 2010.
The Roseburg Forest Products Engineered Wood Products plant in Riddle, Ore. is one of the largest plants of that type in North America, according to Oregon OSHA.
The "highway drill jig" designed by Dr. David Rempel, Pam Susi, and Michael Cooper also is much easier on the construction laborers who are cutting these holes.
The agency has published its newest research on retired players in the American Journal of Cardiology just ahead of Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis.
A working knowledge of applicable standards is critical to a company's continued success. However, understanding your requirements isn't necessarily easy.
Requiring offshore operators to submit and then audit a Safety and Environmental Management Systems plan means their training and safety management elements will stay current.
Current drug testing programs, following the lead of federal programs, do not identify most nonmedical prescription and synthetic drug use.
It was hot, and it immediately became difficult to breathe. The space inside the condenser was, in a word, confining.
As mass manufacturing and processing of fresh produce increases due to demand and dietary recommendations to increase fruit and vegetable consumption, so may the risk from foodborne illness.
It was released Jan. 31 by the Electric Power Research Institute, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and replaces source models used since the 1980s.
OSHA's Wilkes-Barre, Pa. area office inspected the Scranton facility as part of the Site-Specific Targeting Program for industries with high injury and illness rates.
The Network of Employers for Traffic Safety and allied organizations are urging football fans to choose a sober designated driver in advance if they plan to drink alcohol while watching Sunday’s game.