The study will involve 960 delivery workers at 72 wholesale/retail trade establishments to see whether using stair-climbing, powered hand trucks and powered truck lift gates reduces their back pain and upper extremity pain.
“The hazards of working in confined spaces are well-documented and this is a classic example of the kind of injury that occurs when employers fail to adequately protect their employees,” said Cal/OSHA Chief Ellen Widess.
An expert panel is overseeing the work to produce the 4th edition of the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria guideline next year. A webcast Aug. 3 is an opportunity for more stakeholders to comment.
During an inspection opened on March 31, OSHA found Blue Heron employees working in an unprotected excavation greater than 5 feet in depth.
NIOSH's Dr. John Howard and OSHA's Dr. David Michaels are among the speakers at the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health's Sept. 16 conference in New York City.
NRC published an amendment to its fitness-for-duty rule, making it effective Aug. 22.
More than a million of these inaccurate blood tests are carried out annually to diagnose active TB, often at great financial cost to patients.
Proposed penalties total $169,400 following an inspection that began Jan. 10.
A new proposed rule from the Food Safety and Inspection Service would require labels clearly telling consumers when a raw meat or poultry product contains added solution.
They were sold at Home Depot stores from February 2010 through June 2011, according to the CPSC recall announcement.
In an observational study, a nationally representative group of 6,044 adults over age 50 rated their optimism levels on a 16-point scale. Each point increase in optimism corresponded to a 9 percent decrease in acute stroke risk over a two-year follow-up period.
The July 28 meeting in Rockville, Md., to discuss recommendations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Japan Task Force gives Public Citizen and others the chance to say they don't go far enough.
"Rarely does a summer pass without reports of serious burns sustained during camping trips, and sadly we do hear about fatalities from fires that have ripped through tents or caravans, often accelerated due to the explosion of fuel canisters," said Peter Cornall, RoSPA’s head of leisure safety.
Three violations involve not following lockout/tagout standards to isolate energy sources in order to prevent the unexpected energization of machinery.
Key points: Every family member should know how to operate the windows used for fire emergencies, and everyone should be able to get out through a window at all times without using tools, keys, special knowledge, or significant effort.
Possible reasons for the link between height and cancer risk include hormone levels related to childhood growth, and in turn to cancer risk in later life. It was also suggested that the link could simply be down to the fact that taller people have more cells in their bodies, and so a greater chance of developing cancerous cell changes.
Eight out-of-service orders in the past four months are part of FMCSA's increased efforts to promote safety in the industry, and DOT wants new tools to do even more.