The law directs the Federal Transit Administration to work with manufacturers and transit agencies to set a new pass/fail standard for bus testing, and this takes precedence over full-load testing change.
Companies are contesting moves to regulate sterilization products, claiming that there is not enough proof in favor of the move.
Significant numbers of workers ages 50-54 say they must work night shifts, lift heavy loads, and work at high speed, causing one-third of this age group to say they believe they won’t be able to work to age 60 or wouldn’t want to do the same job until then.
Oregon OSHA has welcomed Reese Electric in North Bend as the latest employer in the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP).
The chicken processor and distributor exposed employees to chemicals and did not perform regulation inspection on equipment, among other offenses.
The levels for freight transportation usage in October were the lowest they had been in more than a year.
Offshore wind presents a nearly untapped resource for American energy development.
Exposure to the harmful metal, which can cause illness and cancer in cases of chronic contact, can be more easily monitored by workers and supervisors with a new OSHA online endeavor.
Believed to be caused by a pipeline explosion, the West Virginia fire spread to nearby homes in the hour before it was contained.
The 2010-2011 total of 374 occupational fatalities there is equal to 8 percent of the 4,690 fatalities recorded in the United States in 2010, according to BLS.
"While we need to avoid schedules that call for excessive hours, it's equally important to modify work patterns through a combination of education, training, and lifestyle choices to ensure employees can avoid fatigue," said Metro Board Safety Committee Chair Mort Downey.
The agency reiterates that cargo airlines are free to adopt the rule voluntarily and said its new Supplemental Regulatory Impact Analysis provides even more economic evidence for excluding cargo.
According to the special report issued Dec. 11 by the safety board, between 2004 and 2009 there were 1,566 wrong-way fatal crashes in the United States that killed 2,139 people.
Lloyd's and other insurers have written a custom policy covering a team's bid to traverse Antarctica in winter for the first time and raise millions of a dollars for a charity trying to prevent blindness.
When the six-story CTV building fell within 20 seconds after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the city on Feb. 22, 2011, 115 of its occupants died.
The quarterly HFES journal is seeking submissions on the topic by April 8, 2013.
Answering a petition from the Association of American Railroads, the DOT agency says it will make changes that reduce PTC costs for locomotives used in rail yards and will expand the de minimis exemption.