This request for enterprise-wide relief is based on hazards OSHA found during inspections of various DeMoulas stores, including the agency's most recent inspections at Market Basket stores in Rindge and Concord, N.H. Those inspections resulted in citations and proposed OSHA fines totaling $589,200.
It seeks comments by March 20 on possibly requiring crewmembers who are selected for testing to report immediately to the testing site upon being notified and also requiring marine employers to report failed drug tests by non-credentialed mariners.
They still want to find a way to conduct their research on making the H5N1 avian flu strain more transmissible between mammals and to share the details with legitimate flu investigators.
Overall injury rates have improved by 90 percent since 1998. Dr. Greg Stone, its global safety and health director, says his team zeroes in on significant incidents and ensures the lessons learned are shared with every manufacturing plant around the world.
This will replace the current practice by the Department of Public Health of inspecting all food establishments at least once every six months.
Automotive and aircraft manufacturing are two drivers of the higher robot orders industry leaders forecast, with growth also coming from food and beverage, pharma, and laboratories.
The report recommends that NHTSA establish a standing technical advisory panel of individuals with backgrounds central to the design, development, and safety assurance of automotive electronics systems.
DOSH has created a new Web page offering training materials and other resources and developed a slideshow depicting two serious injuries due to molten metal.
The increased incidence of accidents over the years closely corresponds to documented rising popularity of auditory technologies with headphones.
The Health and Safety Executive prosecuted a crane supply company and one of its supervisors after a 3,000-pound steel beam fell and killed Colin Dickson, 38, in August 2007.
With an independent audit and a report from CPUC's Consumer Protection and Safety Division exposing Pacific Gas and Electric Company's repeated decisions to postpone maintenance, the penalty consideration case opened Jan. 12 could result in "very significant fines" against the utility.
The expert panel added "or need for ventilatory support" to the respiratory rate criteria out of a recognition that adults and children requiring advanced airway interventions are a very high-risk group.
According to new figures the brigade released Jan. 10, 36 arson attacks and 113 accidental fires occurred in London's schools, colleges, and nursery buildings in 2011.
The rule provides minimum requirements for developing a hazardous drugs control program. Employers, using a hazard assessment, will put programs in place to minimize or eliminate the hazardous exposures to their employees.
“These incidents, including a tragic death, highlight the need for employers at outdoor worksites to be diligent and monitor their workers for signs of heat illness,” said California Department of Industrial Relations Director Christine Baker.
The winning companies were selected through a national competition. They can deliver online construction 10-hour and 30-hour, general industry 10-hour and 30-hour, and maritime training through the Outreach Training Program.
The standard sets up the minimum elements and activities of a program that defines the duties and responsibilities of construction employers working on a project where multiple employers are or will be engaged in the common undertaking to complete a construction project.
The Labor commissioner, IOSHA deputy commissioner, and INSafe director are members of the panel working to "facilitate the adoption and use of industry best practices" for preventing violence inside 24-hour convenience stores.
In the 2010 resuscitation guidelines, the American Heart Association advised 911 dispatchers to help bystanders assess anyone who may have had a cardiac arrest and then direct them to begin CPR. “I think it’s a call to arms,” said E. Brooke Lerner, Ph.D., lead author of the statement and associate professor of emergency medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
"This has been a serious problem for organizations operating outside the United States who want to ensure their workplace is drug free by testing applicants and employees," said Patricio Labatut and Brian Drew, co-chairmen of the association's International Committee.