When the Smokey Bear hot air balloon comes to the Highland Village Lions Club's 24th annual festival Aug. 19-21, the Texas heat and fire prevention will be on everyone's mind.
One of two new Intel Science and Technology Centers -- the other is focused on cloud computing -- it works on systems to make driving safer and and cut homes' energy bills.
The serious violation was cited for failing to ensure that employees who worked more than eight hours during a workday were not exposed to lead at concentrations greater than the reduced permissible exposure limit.
An estimated average of 3,800 university housing fires occur each year. Annually, these fires are responsible for 25 injuries and $9 million in property loss.
ASSE is joining the West Virginia University Health and Safety staff, the Morgantown fire department, and the WVU Residents' Assistants Fire Academy for training and demonstrations.
"The violations which related to improper management of the anhydrous ammonia system demonstrate a lax attitude towards a potentially catastrophic atmospheric release," said John Healy, OSHA area director in Englewood.
Millions of students will head back to school over the next eight weeks, and tens of thousands of school buses will be on the roads. It’s crucial that all motorists understand how to safely share the roads with school buses, pedestrians, and bicyclists.
The vascular pattern recognition security system protects key areas of the new FDNY building, including an area for secured narcotics.
"Even in a retail outlet, employees can be exposed to deadly or disabling hazards if the proper safeguards and training are absent, as they were here," said Edward Jerome, OSHA's area director in Albany.
The London Fire Brigade's emergency command center received 2,169 calls -- 15 times the number answered on a normal day -- between 6 p.m. Monday and 7:19 a.m. Tuesday.
EPA proposed adding parent company information and e-mail addresses to the Emergency and Hazardous Chemical Inventory Forms (Tier I and Tier II) under Section 312 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act.
OSHA's Houston South Area Office initiated a safety and health inspection Feb. 9 at the company's facility after receiving a report that a worker had been found, unresponsive, inside a tank trailer that was being prepared to be washed.
NIOSH crash tests revealed the possibility of head injury if a worker’s head strikes the cabinets immediately above or behind them, and noted that vehicle structural failures can be a contributing factor in adverse outcomes of EMS crashes.
The Known Crewmember program sponsored by the Air Line Pilots Association International and the Air Transport Association begins this week at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Jay-Bee Oil & Gas Inc. was cited for the same ones at the same gas well drilling site in 2010, according to OSHA.
The 2010 Joint Action involves market surveillance of five new product categories in 21 European countries.
The Guidelines include recommendations on musculoskeletal injuries, aerobic exercise for knee arthritis, and postsurgical rehabilitation.