The heat may not be to your liking when next year's ASSE conference takes place June 24-27 in Vegas, but McCarran International Airport's Terminal 3 may be.
The packs could leak gel that may contain diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol if damaged. While these can cause illness if ingested in large amounts, there have been no new reports of incidents or injuries, CPSC said.
The problem the agency set out to address in 1997, children killed when air bags deployed, has disappeared -– no child deaths related to air bags have been confirmed in model year 2004 or later vehicles.
Four graduate students have been selected to receive scholarships in the company's 26th annual industrial hygiene scholarship presentation.
The Healthy Nurse Conference taking place June 14 asks RNs to become role models for their patients and for a healthy population.
An offering on display during this week's Safety 2012 conference brings the concept of fit testing to yet another PPE category.
OSHA's Little Rock Area Office initiated an inspection on Dec. 12, 2011, under the agency's National Emphasis Program for Chemicals.
The Ministry of Agriculture reported it Tuesday, according to a Xinhua New Agency report. WHO reports 168 cases of human H5N1 infection have been confirmed in Egypt, 60 of them fatal.
Serious violations include a scaffold that was not secured to the structure or supported on an adequate firm foundation and employees climbing across braces to access the scaffold.
The agency says the new design makes it easier for EMS professionals to access training content, event information, and industry news.
To be proactive in preventing accidents, employees must be properly trained on new chemical labeling and Safety Data Sheet (SDS) formats.
The five occupational groups surveyed for the Food Chain Workers Alliance's "The Hands That Feed Us" report account for 20 million workers, about 15 percent of the entire U.S. civilian workforce.
LIUNA and the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America say the new law significantly increases penalties for violating environmental laws related to asbestos remediation.
Plenary Session audience members at ASSE’s Denver conference and exposition were keen to know if OSHA plans to implement the Injury and Illness Prevention Programs (I2P2) standard before the presidential election this November. After being asked a few times, OSHA Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels said that there’s a possibility that the agency will try to implement I2P2 before the election, “but I’m not allowed to say,” he added.
This is interim guidance from the International Maritime Organization’s Maritime Safety Committee that applies to privately contracted armed security personnel on vessels transiting off the east coast of Africa.
New figures from the department show its personnel responded to almost 22,000 calls, or 20 per day, in the past three years.
Three educational sessions during this week’s Safety 2012 conference are devoted to the new final rule enacted by OSHA to conform its HazCom Standard to the Globally Harmonized System, and many exhibitors are seeing lots of interest from attendees.