The app uses sensors and GPS capability built into smartphones that can detect rollovers. It sends an automatic emergency e-mail and phone message with the coordinates of the accident location to family or emergency responders.
The agency urges patients to participate in hand hygiene to encourage overall safety.
The U.S. Department of Labor reports minimal fire damage but some water impact to the fourth, third, second, and plaza levels of the Francis Perkins Building resulted from sprinkler activation.
Investigators found evidence that 14 minority job applicants were denied the opportunity to fairly compete for open positions.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice created it for forensic laboratories, law enforcement agencies, and the judicial system.
Protestors are calling for better conditions in the aftermath of the garment factory building collapse last week.
The inaugural award is to honor an EH&S professional for outstanding heroism and dedication to fellow employees and to the profession. The presentation is part of this year's NAOSH Week.
The five-star hotel on the popular tourist destination of Waikiki Beach received 17 citations for safety failures.
The Highway Loss Data Institute reports City Safety, Volvo's low-speed collision-avoidance system, is helping drivers avoid fender-benders on congested roads.
Destiny Tours, in Toledo, Ohio failed to gain the proper federal permission to carry out interstate business.
The agency's National Integration Center is using FEMA's Collaboration Community website to let stakeholders express support or dislike of proposed changes.
Royal Dutch Shell will refine the dangerous sour oil from the Bab field in the United Arab Emirates.
They're characteristic of a robust safety culture, BSEE Director James A. Watson said during the Center for Offshore Safety's first annual forum April 29.
The alleged serious violations include failing to verify that conditions in permit-required confined spaces were acceptable throughout the duration of the entry.
EU-OSHA announced them during an April 29 small business and workplace safety conference.
These funds will improve tribal area roadways, some of the most dangerous in the country.
Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri announced the numbers while kicking off the Department of Buildings' ninth annual Construction Safety Week with the 2013 Build Safe/Live Safe Conference.