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Contractors and vendors met in San Antonio last week to talk about technologies for underground utility work. Britain's HSE says a company's recent conviction after a worker suffered burns should remind other excavators of the hazards.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association recently sent a letter to President Obama offering support for his proposal to create more than three million new jobs for American workers.
Training citizens in CPR and letting EMS personnel use AEDs in the field without physicians' online oversight improved response time and increased bystander-initiated CPR, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The decision was made in September 2008 to archive the look and content of the U.S. Labor Department’s site as the Bush administration was drawing to a close, Government Computer News reports.
Registration is now open for the 2009 Oregon Governor's Occupational Safety and Health (GOSH) Conference, to be held March 9-12 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. The largest conference of its kind in the Northwest will feature more than 30 full-day workshops and 115 single-topic classes. It is designed to educate managers and workers about safety and health issues.
The event, from 11 a.m. to noon Central, opens the series with Editor Joel Haight participating and a focus on successful management of safety engineering work.
During Burn Awareness Week, Feb. 1-7, Shriners Hospitals for Children will kick-off a year-long campaign focused on preventing gasoline burn injuries. A special Web site has been developed for the campaign, www.burnawarenessweek.org.
Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-Ind., introduced the bill with colleagues from West Virginia and Texas. NMA says it would accelerate development of training and rescue capabilities.
At age 21, women are more likely to be enrolled in college than men, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported recently. Among 21-year-olds not enrolled in college, men are more likely than women to be employed in a civilian job or serving in the military.
OSHA has cited the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics for nine alleged serious safety violations and proposed $56,700 in fines against the laboratory as a result of an Aug. 6, 2008, accident that seriously injured an employee.
A recent survey by Medical College of Wisconsin researchers of more than 1,800 patients seen in the Froedtert Hospital Emergency Department revealed that Metro Milwaukee residents may not personally be as well prepared for disasters as the rest of the country.
New elimination guides on preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia, MRSA in long-term care settings, catheter-associated urinary tract and bloodstream infections, and Acinetobacter baumannii are in the works.
A new survey of 300 mechanical, electrical, facilities, utilities, and plumbing professionals indicates a lax attitude toward training among employers.
Key revisions include vehicle crash damage criteria that can help determine which patients may require care at a trauma center.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released a comprehensive report to Chair Naomi C. Earp from the Federal Hispanic Work Group, titled Report on the Hispanic Employment Challenge in the Federal Government. The report contains an extensive number of practical recommendations that address a broad array of contemporary federal sector employment issues, including hiring, leadership development, and retention.
The program comes in the form of a CD-based PowerPoint presentation and instructor notes that are separated into a train-the-trainer section and four individual PPE modules for ease of training ready mix concrete personnel.
The Obama administration starts today and will move immediately on a stimulus and jobs program that includes "green" jobs. The Democrats' new House bill would provide $4 billion in job training, including training for green jobs.
The Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission posted the guidelines for such workers, who must make a good-faith effort to find light duty work to continue receiving disability payments.
A new study in the National Safety Council's Journal of Safety Research advances the field and effective use of behavioral safety by identifying key knowledge gaps that warrant additional research. The study, by Oliver Wirth, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and Sigurdur Oli Sigurdsson, pinpoints areas where increased data can enhance behavior-based injury-prevention interventions and improve occupational safety and health.