The inspection of Supreme Oil Co.'s Englewood, N.J., facility arose from OSHA’s Site-Specific Targeting effort, which is based on self-reported injury and illness data.
The Titan/Micoperi website for the project now shows preparations to turn the stranded ship upright are 77 percent complete.
A presentation by officials from Saint Thomas Health, TOSHA, and federal OSHA traced the Midtown Hospital's four-year effort to become the first health care VPP site in the state last year.
The DOL assistant secretary maintained it is clear to employers and managers how to implement an incentives program that OSHA will approve, but questioners said they’re not so sure.
One has been filed in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Senate version will be filed the week of Sept. 9, VPPPA's board chairman announced.
About 2,300 people pre-registered for the event, and 300 more registered on Aug. 25 to attend it.
Virginia Tech researchers received the IEEETransactions in Automation Science and Engineering's Best Paper Award for their development of a sensor and alarm system to detect when a worker's blood oxygen level shows carbon monoxide poisoning is imminent.
Soliciting members' comments about best practices that are working at their own sites, it plans to create a toolkit to explain VPP's benefits to employers and their workforces.
The agencies' memorandum of collaboration continues their work to make oil and gas exploration safer and more environmentally sustainable, officials said.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission increased inspections after a red inspection finding was issued because of a failure of a low-pressure coolant injection valve in fall 2010.
The proposed rule would update the current permissible exposure limit, which was set in 1971, and would apply to construction and general industry, including hydraulic fracturing operations at gas drilling sites. Several key stakeholders expressed support.
Results released Aug. 22 by the UK's largest fire department show that disabled and older residents, among others, are 18 times less likely to have a fire after firefighters visit.
OSHA will be able to enforce some safety and health standards not currently covered by FAA oversight.
OSHA announced the alliance and its new website for this purpose on Aug. 22.
With much of the oil and gas production on the OCS having moved into deeper waters, the regulations have not kept pace with the technological advancements, its proposed rule states.
FDA announced it has allowed the marketing of the VITEK MS, which can identify 193 different microorganisms and perform up to 192 different tests in a single automated series of testing.
Dr. David Moody, DOE-Savannah River operations manager, presented a Merit certificate of achievement and a VPP Merit flag to Parsons employees at the SWPF construction site on Aug. 6.