OSHA inspectors found four Lessard employees exposed to potentially life-threatening falls of 23 feet while working without fall protection on a steep-pitched roof at a work site in Lewiston, Maine.
A job of certifying the fall protection systems in place at the U.S. Capitol and other facilities managed by the Architect of the Capitol has morphed into a multi-year upgrade of those systems that is nearing completion.
The Montreal research agency's database identified a group of skilled workers that includes bricklayers and heavy equipment operators as the second group exposed.
"Methylene chloride exposure can have very serious health effects, such as cancer and cardiac distress," said Paula Dixon-Roderick, director of OSHA's area office in Marlton, N.J.
"Using a system of carrots and sticks as motivators in our organizations when they're "demonstrably failing before our very eyes" is not good enough, said bestselling author Daniel Pink in a presentation designed to dissect the mechanics of motivation.
“Recently there was a major recall of tainted eggs, about three million,” Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) David Michaels, Ph.D., told 4,000 safety and health professionals at the American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Chicago conference and exposition today. “What bothered me was, yes there was uproar over the tainted eggs, which was not good, but no one seemed to care about the rough working conditions for employees.
With more than 500 exhibitors on hand, all simultaneously vying for attention -- and with a recordbreaking number of attendees on the receiving end of that vying -- this year's show is especially bustling.
"The bottom line is that we're better when we work together," said U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, "and I look forward to decades more, sharing an unwaivering commitment to improving worker safety and health."
The experience offers crisis management guidance for safety professionals elsewhere, Ahmed S. Azzam said during Safety 2011.
"[N]o one believes workers are safe enough," said ASSE President Darryl C. Hill. "No one believes that we cannot do better. Let's do better."
Bright sunshine greeted exhibitors and attendees of the American Society of Safety Engineers' Safety 2011 conference on June 12, the opening day of the exposition in McCormick Place West. The sold-out expo hall was bustling, and ASSE spokeswoman Diane Hurns said overall registered attendance had exceeded 4,200.
The American Society of Safety Engineers’ Foundation is pleased to announce that Stephanie James of Western Carolina University has been awarded the 2011 SiteHawk Safety Scholarship.
From 2000−2009, 350 workers died in trenching or excavation cave-ins—an av¬erage of 35 fatalities per year.
OSHA's investigation was initiated in March after an employee was pinned and injured in a 9-foot-deep trench when a large piece of the trench wall caved in on him.
This could be big news for testing companies and for employers covered by the mandatory testing regulations. The agency wants comments by Aug. 9.
The American Society of Safety Engineers recently voted to accept two new credentials for professional membership, the top membership category in ASSE. Recently approved credentials by the ASSE Board of Directors for ASSE professional membership are the Construction Health and Safety Technician and the Occupational Health and Safety Technologist.
The Oct. 23-28 executive-led mission will include individual and government meetings to boost exports to an industry on which China will spend billions of dollars in the next five years to improve safety, according to the department.