Shareholders of the coal company that crossed swords with MSHA after the Upper Big Branch explosion approved the merger, as did shareholders of acquiring company Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.
This new National Emphasis Program aims to protect workers from chemical and physical hazards. Some are exposed to metal dusts and fumes, carbon monoxide, lead, and silica, according to inspection and BLS data.
The maximum penalty for a single act is $11,000. Bills pending in Congress also would criminalize purposefully aiming a laser at an aircraft.
Developed by the college's Occupational and Environmental Lung Disorders Committee, the guidance statement is available as a free online article from the May issue of JOEM, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Cooking is the leading cause of both one- and two-family and multifamily residential buildings fires, followed by heating.
Safety 2011, the American Society of Safety Engineers' big conference in Chicago, is the setting for the debut of the Center for Safety and Health in Sustainability -- a collaboration of ASSE, AIHA, and IOSH.
Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, noted that there could be some risk with cell phone use, but the evidence is not strong enough to confirm the link, and needs to be researched further.
A look at the behavioral lessons of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Dr. E. Scott Geller's "People-Powered Safety" session, and a report by some of the ASSE delegates who visited China in November 2010 are among the highlights on June 13.
The proposed rule from HHS would give people the right to obtain a report on who has electronically accessed their protected health information.
The nomination period for 2010-2011 began May 31 and will close July 31. This is the highest national award for valor by a public safety officer.
The ASTM F2815 standard explains how to use a computer program called a permeation calculator to analyze data following a permeation test.
The first one held last year identified three areas in need of action plans. One of them was training for emergency responders, and that is well under way.
The six-month 2011 hurricane season begins June 1. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center has predicted three to six major hurricanes will form during it.
Commercial or online mailers sending tobacco products by mail can choose to obtain a signature upon delivery from someone 21 or older, beginning June 5.
The agency has removed "non-train incident" involving non-employees who are injured while off railroad property from the definition of "Event or exposure arising from the operation of a railroad."
A committee will discuss a possible standard for decent work for domestic workers.