The checklist offers tips on the important steps consumers should take before hiring a moving company, including researching the interstate moving companies’ consumer complaint history as well as the company's on-road safety performance records.
The cleanup of the wrecked cargo vessel continues, seven months after it ran aground on Astrolabe Reef off the coast of New Zealand and the two officers tried to cover up by altering the ship's documents.
An average of 79 men and women between 16 and 24 are hurt on the job every day in Washington, according to the state's Department of Labor & Industries (L&I).
An inspection by OSHA's Buffalo Area Office found that employees removing asbestos and asbestos-containing materials from a former warehouse were working in ripped and torn protective suits and were not wearing respiratory protection.
The inspections followed the agency’s April 26 directive order telling employers throughout the province they must implement an effective combustible dust control program based on a hazard assessment.
Last fall, Jensen Farms recalled whole cantaloupes that had been distributed to 18 states. FDA said this was the first time a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak had been reportedly linked to whole cantaloupe.
The Dragon spacecraft of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. made a successful rendezvous with the International Space Station on May 25, opening a new era of commercial space transportation.
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced the newcomers' appointments and the reappointments of five members ahead of the June 19-20 meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health.
Since 2005, 7,065 postal professionals have each driven more than a million miles without a single accident through 2011.
More than 1.2 million votes came in during the Cause An Effect contest, with Skate for Change in Lincoln, Neb., winning top honors.
The first international convention of the Service Employees International Union in four years is taking place at Denver's Colorado Convention Center one week prior to ASSE's annual conference.
It's an outgrowth of the company's multi-year investment in 11 universities to support research in scientific fields it values.
Surprisingly, heart disease and stroke aren’t necessarily inevitable with age,” said Michael Gurven, Ph.D., study author and anthropology professor and chairman of the University of California-Santa Barbara’s Integrative Anthropological Sciences Unit.
Full-shift breathing zone sampling at 11 hydraulic fracturing sites in five states found 79 percent exceeded the NIOSH REL and ACGIH TLV, with 31 percent 10 times or more above the NIOSH REL.
The contractor was erecting a multistory building on Nov. 8, 2011, when the front bays of the third, fourth, and fifth floors collapsed as concrete was poured onto the fourth and third floors.
At this year's international conference in San Francisco, Dr. Monica Kraft said more public awareness of COPD and sleep disorders is needed, and the workforce shortage in pulmonary and critical care is a concern.
A study presented by the board's staff May 22 found 10 of 102 accidents in 2011 involving new experimental amateur-built aircraft occurred during the planes' first flights.