Robert LiMandri on Dec. 3 started the Department of Buildings' ninth annual Elevator Escalator Safety Awareness Week by visiting a Brooklyn public school to teach children in first, second, and third grades how to safely ride elevators and escalators and what to do in an emergency.
This new alliance will emphasize safety in some of the grain and feed industry’s danger areas.
These are among the most serious collisions to occur on U.S. highways, according to the agency. A June 2011 railroad grade-crossing accident in Nevada also is on the agenda.
Exit doors of the eight-story building were locked, and its owner claims he was never advised to install emergency exits.
Both mentioned it during Dec. 4 presentations at the 2012 OSHA Oil & Gas Safety Conference in Dallas.
That many people were saved just from 2008 to 2010, the agency reported Nov. 30.
A new report from a National Research Council committee says the current standard sets limits that do not protect personnel working on military firing ranges from harmful exposures.
This grant, distributed over five years should improve both electric-powered transportation and sustainable energy usage.
Judy Schurke's resignation as director of the parent agency of the state's Division of Occupational Safety and Health will be effective Dec. 31
More than 1,400 industry professionals are expected to attend the sold-out conference taking place at a downtown Dallas hotel Dec. 4-5.
The latest study involved a total of 521,000 vehicles and 9.8 billion miles traveled.
FAA and OSHA proposed the new policy on Nov. 30.
After the employee followed the company's injury report policy, he was wrong accused of falsifying the injury report.
The auction in New Orleans brings the year’s total Gulf drilling lease revenues to $2 billion.
With $15 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Chicago will distribute vouchers to cover part of the transition cost to electric vehicles.
The operators of mines in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Louisiana are now on notice about a potential pattern of violations. The agency also announced the number of operations with chronic violations is falling.