“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.
A paper published in the Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment and Health states that two minutes of exercise daily for 10 weeks caused office workers with neck and shoulder pain to experience fewer headaches.
Proposed penalties total $159,700. OSHA began its inspection in December 2010 as part of its national emphasis program to prevent workplace amputations.
A trade association and the U.S. Labor Department offered very different interpretations of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 decision in IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez when they commented on its application to FSIS inspectors.
"This precedent-setting agreement will go a long way in protecting the interests of workers employed by this farm, as well as others in the industry," said Patrick Reilly, director of the division's Southern New Jersey District Office.
Novo Nordisk Inc., a Danish drug maker, agreed to pay that amount to resolve its civil liability for illegally promoting a hemophilia drug for treating traumatic bleeding of combat casualties.