The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice created it for forensic laboratories, law enforcement agencies, and the judicial system.
The five-star hotel on the popular tourist destination of Waikiki Beach received 17 citations for safety failures.
"We have always had a one-size-fits-all approach, blanketing a whole area with CPR training, and we assume that will get to everyone," said Dr. Comilla Sasson, M.D., MS, the statement's lead author.
Many jobs requiring the use of respirators can leave employees mentally and physically drained. Tired employees are more apt to get careless and make mistakes or cut corners.
Be detailed -- include the entire product name, manufacturer, product code, container, physical form, and quantities.
Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri announced the numbers while kicking off the Department of Buildings' ninth annual Construction Safety Week with the 2013 Build Safe/Live Safe Conference.
OSHA, NIOSH, and CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training collaborate on this campaign with the National Occupational Research Agenda Construction Sector Council.
Five villages have received technology and funding to improve local energy efficiency efforts.
For the first time, the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data for 2011 include data on fatal injuries involving contractors.
Since the beginning of the year, there have been 11 fatalities in U.S. mines, including eight in coal mines.
CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training published the expanded edition, a 142-guide to the industry and its workers’ exposures to common hazards, including working at heights, noise above the NIOSH recommended exposure limit, and whole-body vibration.
Safety professionals are finding that the more time they spend with the revised standard looking at training, the more questions they have about GHS adoption in general.
The Time to Drive app created by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center and Sky Highways was featured on DOT's Fast Lanes blog April 17.
After OSHA investigated the facility in October, nine violations were discovered.
This will make the agency's most popular document a true pocket guide, one commenter observed. NIOSH officials want feedback from users to help them decide how to organize the content.
Jim Podolske, the new chief of Fire Emergency Services, is managing more than 9,200 military civilian firefighters, the DOD agency announced April 9.
The FAA and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey reached the settlement of alleged aircraft rescue and firefighting violations at John F. Kennedy, Teterboro, LaGuardia, and Newark Liberty International airports.
The program educates workers and employers about the risks, Cal/OSHA inspections at outdoor work sites in industries such as agriculture, construction, and landscaping will take place throughout the heat season.
The program was created in 2011 by CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum to honor people and organizations that have made significant contributions to consumer product safety.
The Safe, Skilled, Ready Workforce Initiative promotes basic skills, including the ability to recognize how to prevent injury and illness, and what the agency calls healthy work.