Major goals of the partnership are to keep the DART (cases with days away from work, restricted or transferred) rate below the national average for the commercial construction industry and to further reduce this level of recordable injuries by at least four percent annually.
It is critical for employers to ensure employees assisting with the lift are properly trained--including signaling, load limits, and rigging techniques--and are aware of the hazards of operating a crane.
By 2013, 75 percent of all jurisdictions should be able to demonstrate response-level emergency communications within three hours of a significant event, it states.
"Yesterday's earthquake was a wake-up call--a reminder to us to make the important changes we need to survive the inevitable," said the U.S. Geological Survey's Dr. Lucy Jones, on Wednesday.
With springtime comes the surge of construction activity—an exciting time, and possibly a dangerous time, too. Lots of new sites begin work as soon as the severe weather breaks. New crews, different trades, and subcontractors work in close proximity with seasoned workers, temporary employees, and even interns.Multicultural and -lingual sites are common.In such settings, how do you know who is at risk for injury?
An internal NIST committee found that a failure in the safety management system, exacerbated by a "casual and informal research environment that appears to have valued research results above safety considerations," is the most probable root cause of the incident.
Anhydrous ammonia is one of the most dangerous chemicals used in refrigeration and agriculture today, EPA noted. Those who work with it must be trained to follow exact handling procedures.
"We hope that citizens will contact their representatives in Washington and demand that the Transportation Department take positive action on this common sense rule immediately," said Stephen Owings, founder of Road Safe America.
The awards were presented Tuesday at the NORA Symposium 2008 that NIOSH sponsored.
The investigation and subsequent citation followed a Jan. 23 incident in which an employee was caught in an unguarded conveyor.
An investigation of the Philadelphia facility resulted in three willful and 51 serious violations.
While there have been no reports of major damage or injuries in Los Angeles, San Diego, or Tijuana, some buildings in downtown Los Angeles reportedly swayed for several seconds, prompting some precautionary evacuations.
The air people breathe while walking in the park, working in the garden or shopping downtown may be unhealthy enough to seriously spike their blood pressure, a new study suggests.
The agency says that even though the pesticide is used on only a small percentage of the U.S. food supply, making the likelihood of exposure through food low, it has identified risks that do not meet the agency's rigorous food safety standards.
The Sept. 16 event in Washington, D.C., will focus on how communications furthers response by health care, responders, government, and industry.
Hired eight weeks before explosion, he toured the mill and found it "the most dangerous manufacturing plant that I had ever entered," then warned management.
Port and longshore workers, truckers and others operating within Long Island Sound and the nearby area have begun to enroll in the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Worker Identification Credential program.
An amicus brief filed in the case last year by the American Hospital Association and other heath care organizations urged that hospitals "be allowed the full freedom afforded by HCQIA to protect patients and to improve the quality of care," and that the judgment of the lower court be reversed.
At its San Joaquin County facility, at least 16,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia used in the refrigeration system mandated a risk management plan, which the company quickly provided to EPA officials.