Bruce Evans, assistant chief of business and support services at the North Las Vegas Fire Department, will receive the James O. Page EMS Achievement Award during the IAFC event in Las Vegas.
The sessions, which are free and open to the public, are designed to explore competition and regulatory issues in the agricultural industry.
"The most important -- and yet sometimes the most difficult -- thing to do is to keep your composure," said ACEP President Dr. Angela Gardner. "You will be better able to provide critical information to emergency responders and physicians, whether for yourself or someone else."
Inspectors will verify that training was provided in a language and vocabulary the workers could understand.
The application period will close May 28. The grants help fire departments and nonaffiliated EMS units with staffing, training, and equipment.
Combined penalties proposed in citations against Birdair Inc. and National Wrecking Co. in Chicago total $105,000.
Today is a day to grieve for workers who have died on the job and to focus on improving conditions for workers around the world, the ILO's director-general, Juan Somavia, said.
The sixth annual event by New York City's Department of Buildings includes events in each of the five boroughs. Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri and others visited an 11-story building under construction in Brooklyn on Monday.
The latest semiannual regulatory agenda does not advance the rulemaking except to give an October 2010 date to complete analyzing comments submitted in 2008. EPA's agenda says NPRMs will be issued in July 2011 to enhance pesticide protection for applicators and agricultural workers.
It started Sunday and ends May 1, incorporating April 28, which is observed around the world as Workers Memorial Day.
Available to the public as a webcast, the May 18-20 event stems from recent incidents including the Colgan Air flight 3407 crash in February 2009.
The Governors Highway Safety Association projects that fatalities fell nationwide from 5,290 in 2008 to 4,762 or fewer in 2009, marking the first decline after 11 years of increases.
"Our inspection found that the blades on this and other saws lacked the guarding designed to prevent just this type of accident," said Diana Cortez, OSHA's area director in Tarrytown, N.Y.
Cited violations against the company include failing to provide safe work practice procedures for hot work in a confined space, failing to prevent cutting operations in the presence of explosive atmospheres, and the lack of procedures for summoning resuce and emergency services.
A May 5 signing ceremony at DOL headquarters in Washington, D.C. is well timed because OSHA will require certification of some lifting personnel in the cranes and derricks standard it is expected to issue in July 2010.
"There is no excuse for this accident," said Charles Adkins, OSHA's regional administrator in Kansas City, Mo. "This worker should not have been allowed to work in the machine without energy sources being locked out."
The new organization integrates three businesses -- DuPont Safety Resources, Coastal Training Technologies, and segments of DuPont Clean Technologies.
With the exception of three 13-year-olds, the 1,482 minors the company employed were 14 and 15 years of age.
A podcast and Facebook discussion are part of the accrediting organization's preparations for the May 6-12 event.
Friday's decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit says the U.S. Labor secretary has the authority to penalize employers on a per-instance basis in willful or egregious cases.