The Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (MACOSH) will hold a meeting March 24, 2009, to discuss its goals for the next two years and to review accomplishments achieved during the last two years. These accomplishments include developing shipyard and longshoring industry guidance documents and digests, expanding the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) shipyard eTool module, and publishing a Safety and Health Prevention Sheet.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety posted the maps last week, allowing anyone to know which three states have no laws on their books requiring motorcyclists or bicyclists to wear protective helmets.
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood recently announced that Pittsburgh International and Allegheny County Airports will receive the first funding allocations for airport infrastructure projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Oregon OSHA Administrator Michael Wood, shown here, announced the 2008 total, 44, on Tuesday at the 2009 Oregon Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Conference in Salem.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has committed $900 million in DOT funds through 2016 to the $3.1 billion Wiehle Avenue Extension of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project.
Public Citizen, the Teamsters, and their allies went back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Monday asking it to again review the twice-invalidated FMCSA hours of service rule. A new study out yesterday recommends mandatory obstructive sleep apnea screenings to reduce truck crashes.
The company and its owner were indicted for shipping chemicals via United Parcel Service and Federal Express on multiple occasions without declaring the chemicals as hazmat. The owner's activities were discovered when a shipment leaked onboard an aircraft causing the entire aircraft to be unloaded and cleaned.
"With this recovery package, we will be creating jobs, saving jobs, and putting money in people's pockets," Biden said.
The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended that the Department of Transportation modify current federal regulations addressing the adequacy of mobile acetylene trailer design for protection during transport and the effectiveness and safety of current unloading procedures.
The needs estimate focuses on the investment that will be necessary to maintain the pavements and bridges on Texas roadways, to prevent worsening traffic congestion in urban areas, and to ensure rural mobility and safety.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the budget is, "a start toward setting the nation's transportation system on a sustainable path."
In his Feb. 19 resignation letter to President Obama, the former American Airlines captain and member of the USAF Thunderbirds team said serving with NTSB was "one of the most rewarding experiences of my professional life."
While the site is geared mainly for industrial shiftwork, special sections of the e-commerce site are devoted to those in the nursing and trucking industries.
The city council voted 4-4 Wednesday, sustaining Mayor Mufi Hannemann's veto of a bill that would have banned texting and playing video games while driving. Hannemann wants a more comprehensive bill enacted.
"Employees have a strong and clear right to raise legitimate safety and health concerns about their working conditions without fear of termination or reprisal," said Marthe Kent, OSHA's New England regional administrator.
The two-day event to be held in Crystal City, Va., will be designed to identify problems and solutions for the bus transportation community.
OSHA has ordered Union Pacific Railroad Co., headquartered in Omaha, to reassign a Beverly, Iowa, welder to his former position, reimburse the welder for travel expenses, and pay compensatory damages associated with personal hardship following a whistleblower investigation.
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a two-day public hearing as part of its ongoing investigation into the ditching of a US Airways Airbus A-320 into the Hudson River in New York City in January.
Air pollution caused by traffic near the home affects asthma severity in children, resulting in repeated hospital encounters, according to a study published this month in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.
The pilot's impairment due to medications he had taken and lack of communication between the pilot and the master contributed to striking the bridge, which ultimately caused at least $73.5 million in damage, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in its report Wednesday.