OSHA's Dallas Area Office began the investigation Oct. 10, 2010, at the plant after workers were injured while vacuuming explosive dust to clean out a natural gas processing unit.
OSHA stands to lose only $1.2 million. A number of federal environmental programs are cut much more and FEMA had $786 million cut from its FY2010 allotment for First Responder Grants by the Continuing Resolution that averted a shutdown of the federal government last week.
Directed primarily to those working on new construction, the document describes safety methods employers can implement during stages of construction.
When the European Food Safety Authority published its opinions April 8 on 442 proposed health claims for food products, it rejected 80 percent of them.
When the agency opened its Los Angeles office April 8, representatives of the FBI, Secret Service and LAPD were present.
OSHA initiated an investigation in October 2010 following the death of one employee and the wounding of another, allegedly committed by a client at the addiction treatment facility.
A "new generation of intelligent electronic machines" would have applications in robotics and manned systems and in sensory and integration applications such as image processing, it says.
The Department of Labor recently announced it is soliciting public comments to assist in determining whether and possibly how to expand or modify current rules regarding the electronic distribution of employee benefit plan information.
Irreversible effects from work-related exposures even at low levels, without taking appropriate precautions, can include cancer, reproductive and developmental problems, allergic reactions, and others.
Awards ceremonies April 8 and April 13 coincided with National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (April 10-16).
Expected to arrive in early summer, it will review the evidence for adverse health events associated with vaccines covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.
Workers exposed to welding fumes may be at increased risk of damage to the same brain area harmed by Parkinson's disease, according to a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Studies indicate that training designed to maximize the brain’s remodelling potential should be challenging, repetitive, task-specific, motivating, and novel. All of those are qualities of video-gaming.
The newly developed tool permits mine operators, miners, the media, and the public to determine, based on the most recent data available, how a specific mine matches up with the criteria for a potential pattern of violations.
The U.S. Fire Administration recently announced the theme for the 2011 Arson Awareness Week: Working Together to Extinguish Serial Arson.
One death occurred in September 2010 in New Jersey, the other in February 2011 in Illinois.
Serious and repeat citations were issued for failing to ensure that lockout/tagout devices were used by authorized employees to de-energize a machine.