Students from three of the service academies competed recently in Pittsburgh after receiving training from two top experts.
"Our government has been seeking to make the case that good health and safety represents good business, and I think IOSH's initiative illustrates that very vividly," said Richard Bruton, Ireland's minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
The bench-scale test of whether a burning cigarette will ignite upholstered pieces may underestimate the materials' tendency to smolder, the agency's Mark Bello reported.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit agency and Contra Costa Health Services say anyone who used the transit system from Tuesday, Feb. 4 to Friday, Feb. 7 during the morning commute hours and late evening may have been exposed to measles.
From 2011 to 2012, the data show a slight increase in the number of transportation fatalities and a decrease in aviation, pipeline, and marine deaths.
The agency announced a call for abstracts for the first annual International Symposium to Advance Total Worker Health.
The state's Interagency Working Group on Refinery Safety released the report Feb. 13. It recommends making inherently safer technologies mandatory for the 21 refineries in the state, as well as root cause analysis after significant incidents.
The agency has announced the comment period for the proposed rule will close March 10.
Under the newly proposed rule, employers would have to check the clearinghouse before hiring new workers.
OSHA announced Feb. 13 that it has cited Wire Mesh Sales, LLC of Jacksonville, Fla., and proposed $697,700 in penalties in connection with the August 2013 death of a 32-year-old machine helper.
Bravo's Construction Services of Woodburn, Ore., has been cited by the state program for the seventh time since February 2013.
The agency collaborates with the National Association of Tower Erectors on a safety initiative.
The winners are awarded prizes for tackling filthy tasks while wearing DuPont garments.
The meat is recalled due to worries that it is unfit for human consumption.
The proposed rule would extend the compliance date to Nov. 10, 2017.
The total statewide was 202 as of Feb. 7, and 41 other deaths are under investigation but not yet confirmed as influenza-related. During the entire 2012-2013 flu season, there were 106 flu deaths in California.
Fire service organizations in the United States, Canada, and India received the fire prevention grants last year.