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.
The company is offering nine courses focused on process safety, combustible dusts, process hazard analysis, and preventing flash fires and explosions in six cities this year.
The jury returned verdicts for each of six deaths involved in the Lakanal House high-rise residential fire in July 2009 in south London, citing conflicting advice from emergency call centers and renovations that left the structure more vulnerable to fires.
With these grants, nonprofit organizations can help offenders between 16 and 24 years old.
The ISEA First Aid Product Group's members are now working on the 2014 edition of the American national standard specifying minimum requirements for the contents of workplace first aid kits.
Online CPR and first aid certification is a fast, convenient, and appallingly common sham.
WMATA's Richard Sarles believes the greatest threat comes from complacency, something I've also heard from SafeStart founder Larry Wilson and others.
Consider an ergonomic assessment. You may be surprised at the changes that can be easily made in positioning, workstation design, tool use and selection, and vibration control.
Its announcement said the state's 2020 population is expected to include more than 6 million people 65 or older, many still driving.
Twenty-four participants from a dozen countries are attending IAEA's School for Nuclear Energy Management until April 5 and then will continue their studies in Georgia.