Are sulfide gases produced by the corrosive drywall's reaction with metal surfaces a health hazard? We don't know yet.
The Oct. 7 letter from the Office of Health, Safety and Security's acting enforcement chief to Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC said SRNS "had extensive deficiencies" in hazard assessment and its electrical safety program.
"Simsmetal East knowingly put its workers at risk by failing to protect them from overexposure to lead, which can cause brain damage, paralysis, kidney disease, and even death," said Kris Hoffman, director of OSHA's Parsippany Area Office in New Jersey.
Making certificate holders with 10 or more helicopter air ambulances establish operations control centers is one facet of the proposal, which is intended to make helicopter air ambulance flights safer nationwide.
The latest two are dated Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. Both concern interpretations of construction standards.
The program has a new name reflecting the broader focus on overall organizational quality. This is the first year since the nonprofit category was added in 2007 with site visits taking place in all six categories.
The Nov. 2 public meeting will begin at 9 a.m. in Washington, D.C. Several organizations submitted comments earlier this year expressing concern that the registry be structured to prevent unverified claims and litigation.
National Fire Prevention Week 2010 started Oct. 5 with children taking the Junior Firefighter and EMT pledge and concluded with an Oct. 8 graduation ceremony.
During an inspection at the plant in May, OSHA found the employer failed to conduct training or evaluations for workers operating propane-propelled forklift trucks in the company's warehouse.
"While statistics show that transportation fatalities have declined this past year, we continue to see far too many accidents in all segments of the transportation community,” said NTSB Chairman Deborah A. P. Hersman.
If the proper safety precautions had been taken by management, this injury could have been prevented," said Bill Fulcher, director of OSHA's Atlanta-East Area Office.
Enterprise Inns plc was fined $478,000 in a case involving a tenant landlord who died in November 2007 of carbon monoxide poisoning. The company owns about 7,700 pubs across the United Kingdom.
"Our inspections identified a broad cross-section of electrical, mechanical, chemical, fire, and fall hazards throughout the workplace," said Paul Mangiafico, OSHA's acting area director in Hartford, Conn.
“Meridia’s continued availability is not justified when you compare the very modest weight loss that people achieve on this drug to their risk of heart attack or stroke,” said John Jenkins, M.D., director of the Office of New Drugs in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
New factors used to accurately issue serious citations include any training given to employees and supervisors, existing workplace safety procedures, supervision of employees exposed to the hazard, as well as any contributing information the employer wishes to provide to explain why the employer believes that no serious violation exists.
The agency on Friday alerted operators that the UPS cargo plane that crashed in Dubai on Sept. 3 was carrying large quantities of lithium batteries and that Halon 1301, the suppression agent used in Class C cargo compartments, is ineffective in controlling a lithium metal cell fire.
Survey findings show that less than one quarter have interconnected smoke alarms. And while smoke alarms should be tested monthly, a large portion of the population doesn’t check them as often as they should, according to NFPA.