The company was prosecuted after an employee suffered fatal head injuries in October 2006 when he fell from a wooden ladder.
Its passage Sunday evening by unanimous consent of the U.S. Senate was a surprise, The Washington Post reports.
OSHA has proposed $91,000 in fines against the company for one alleged willful, two alleged serious, and one other-than-serious violation.
Although whatever window OSHA has to enact an injury and illness prevention programs requirement may well be closing, the Jan. 19-20 meeting in Washington, D.C., will include a discussion by OSHA and NIOSH staffs.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association has opened registration for the 2011 American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exposition. The conference, scheduled May 14-19, will take place in Portland, Ore. and will include the latest in industrial hygiene technology, methodology, and innovation.
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis recently announced appointment of five new members to the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health. The new appointees will serve two-year terms and are leaders in the fields of medicine, academia and safety program development.
Savings of $8.6 million would result from one of the most important recommendations in the government's recent report to reduce the regulatory burden on employers.
Salmonella was the leading cause of estimated hospitalizations and deaths, responsible for about 28 percent of deaths and 35 percent of hospitalizations due to known pathogens transmitted by food.
The OPLAN from the California Emergency Management Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency outlines response and recovery following "unthinkable" destruction from an earthquake.
This hazard is especially present during winter months when people use heaters and stoves indoors to stay warm.
An employee was performing welding on a pontoon boat when the hot work ignited vapors from within the boat's interior. OSHA found that the boat had not been adequately ventilated to ensure the escape of flammable gasses before welding.
About 6,200 instruments sold between January 2008 and November 2010 are being recalled in the United States and Canada.
The owner and the vice president of a Detroit-area physical therapy clinic were sentenced to 151 months and 108 months in prison, respectively, for their leading roles in a $23 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced.
A series of studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published Dec. 14 in a supplement to the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases provide a unique look at the science that guided the Federal Government's response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association, in collaboration with American National Standards Institute, has released two new fundamental consensus standards which promote conformity among assessment systems. As an ANSI member and accredited standards developer, AIHA serves as the secretariat for three ANSI committees that develop occupational safety and health related standards.
No evidence of external corrosion, no physical indications of excavation damage, and no physical evidence suggesting a pre-existing leak has been found so far on the damaged pipe.
Two studies evaluated a synthetic derivative of the spice turmeric made by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.