NTSB's online aviation database shows 143 fatal aviation accidents in the state since the beginning of 2000. Board Member Earl F. Weener, investigating the latest crash, highlighted the challenges in a blog post.
One recommendation that will be implemented is creation of an Interagency Refinery Task Force housed within California Environmental Protection Agency.
If the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's members agree in a July 25 public meeting to that designation, it will be the first "Most Wanted Chemical Safety Improvement" selected in CSB's history.
Shell Oil Co. also would pay a civil penalty of $2.6 million. The Justice Department is publishing the proposed decree July 16 and seeking comments in the next 30 days.
It's a project of the association's Fire Analysis and Research Division.
Sunrise Airways, based in Port-au-Prince, announced it is the first Haitian airline ever to gain membership in the foundation.
The agency reported the breakthrough July 8 and said "Team Tomato" has published two studies recently in scientific journals.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is developing new regulations during the next two years to implement the Safe Food for Canadians Act, which passed in November 2012.
Some buildings heavily damaged by the fire in the Quebec town sparked by a July 6 train derailment were being demolished Sunday so authorities could continue searching for missing residents.
Their first collaborative book will be published in early 2014, the organizations announced July 11.
The Aug. 26-29 national conference, one of the top annual events on the safety community's calendar, will take place at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center in Nashville.
The governor's office is calling for a reevaluation of the rebate system.
The 20,000-panel solar installation will be on the roof of the Mandalay Bay Resort Convention Center
WHO's latest report says 2.3 billion people worldwide are covered by a least one measure limiting tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.
The agency's Nuclear Data Section's Isotope Browser will provide quick information on the properties of more than 4,000 isotopes.
A final rule available on the agency's website will require them to have an aircraft type rating and hold an Airline Transport Pilot certificate, which requires 1,500 hours as a pilot.
The society signed an agreement last month to work with Chinese workplace safety professionals and announced July 10 that it will work with Russia's National Association of Centers for Occupational Safety and Health.