Orlaco, a Dutch company, provided the cameras, which are waterproof and shock-resistant and mounted on the front bumper of the vehicles.
FMCSA is taking comments until Sept. 19 on the association's request, which would exempt about 68,000 drivers who spend less than half of their on-duty time actually driving.
The Gaylord Resort Hotel & Convention Center at National Harbor, Md., is the site for the August 2014 event.
The guidance document recommends equipping AN storage areas with automatic fire sprinklers and not storing more than 2,500 tons of bagged AN without such a system.
Cindy Lewis, director of the Gulf Coast Safety Institute and an OSHA Challenge administrator, told the audience at her workshop that contractor safety is an issue for every site she visits.
Three students received VPPPA scholarships this year, and Deb Clingan of Miller Coors was chosen as Special Government Employee of the Year during VPPPA’s annual conference.
Highway fatality rates in 2003-2010 for workers 65 and older were three times the rates of workers ages 18-54, according to the MMWR report.
Officials from the state plan agency and its parent organization, the California Department of Industrial Relations, are organizing the Dec. 5-6 conference.
DUI checkpoints, "no refusal" enforcement, and strict enforcement of all traffic laws are some of the tools highway patrols will be using during the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 holiday period.
Acting Director B. Todd Jones took the oath of office at the White House. ATF, which enforces firearms and explosives laws, had no permanent director for the past seven years.
Dr. James Hedlund received the James J. Howard Highway Safety Trailblazer Award and Terry Pence, Traffic Safety Section director for the Texas Department of Transportation's Traffic Operations Division, received the Kathryn J.R. Swanson Public Service Award.
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.