DOSH has created a new Web page offering training materials and other resources and developed a slideshow depicting two serious injuries due to molten metal.
The increased incidence of accidents over the years closely corresponds to documented rising popularity of auditory technologies with headphones.
One of the categories is social responsibility, asking how the gift card program assisted the IGCC member or its client in achieving their environmental, philanthropic, and corporate citizen goals.
American Marazzi Tile Inc. has been issued 25 safety and health violations for exposing workers to excessive noise levels, machine guarding hazards, and other conditions.
Koji Sekimizu, secretary-general of the International Maritime Organization, said regulations on the safety of large passenger ships may be re-examined in light of the investigation of the deaths from the grounding of the cruise ship Costa Concordia.
"While nothing can replace a loved one, these scholarships can help challenged families finance higher education," said Michael Wood, administrator of Oregon OSHA.
All five recommendations focus on the need for railroads to disseminate information related to these accidents to their employees and to emphasize the need for crewmembers to operate trains in accordance with restricted speed operating rules, NTSB said.
Snow and cold weather arrived in Green Bay, Wis., just in time for a football playoff game. Authoritites expect will there be sufficient ice for a large-scale ice rescue drill set for Jan. 18 near Dyckesville, Wis.
The Health and Safety Executive prosecuted a crane supply company and one of its supervisors after a 3,000-pound steel beam fell and killed Colin Dickson, 38, in August 2007.
OSHA began health and safety inspections in July as a follow-up to inspections conducted in March 2008. The 2008 inspections were initiated based on a referral from the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration, after a worker sustained an amputation injury.
With an independent audit and a report from CPUC's Consumer Protection and Safety Division exposing Pacific Gas and Electric Company's repeated decisions to postpone maintenance, the penalty consideration case opened Jan. 12 could result in "very significant fines" against the utility.
The expert panel added "or need for ventilatory support" to the respiratory rate criteria out of a recognition that adults and children requiring advanced airway interventions are a very high-risk group.
A study of 1,985 adult heart attack survivors showed that after a significant person’s death, heart attack risks increased to 21 times higher than normal within the first day.
The work at the San Antonio Military Medical Center is aimed at finding the best treatment for combat veterans experiencing mild traumatic brain injury symptoms as much as two years after their injuries.
OSHA has issued the company 22 safety and health violations for exposing workers to a variety of hazards at its facility following an inspection that was initiated in August based on a complaint. Proposed penalties total $55,755.
According to new figures the brigade released Jan. 10, 36 arson attacks and 113 accidental fires occurred in London's schools, colleges, and nursery buildings in 2011.
"Left uncorrected, these hazards expose employees to possible electrocution, crushing, and struck-by injuries, being caught in moving machine parts, hearing loss, falls, eye and hand injuries, asbestos, and lead," said Arthur Dube, OSHA's acting area director in Albany.