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Every year through our National Safety Survey, we reach out to EHS leaders to learn more about their thoughts on the occupational safety and health landscape. We want to know about your successes, your challenges, your goals, and what might help you work more effectively to save lives and prevent on-the-job injuries and illnesses....More

While it might not come as a surprise that farm workers are exposed to hot working conditions while on the job, new research suggests that many of these employees continue to face the heat even when their shifts are over. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers conducted a study to evaluate the heat indexes in migrant farm worker housing and found that a majority of the workers don’t get a break from the heat when they’re off the clock. This research raises concerns about productivity and worker health....More

As many as 600 workers were at the Williams Geismar Olefins chemical facility in Geismar, La., this morning when an explosion occurred just after 8:30 a.m., rocking the area and starting a large fire. Initial reports list one fatality and 33 injured employees, some of them seriously. Employees at companies as far as 2 miles away were told to shelter in place....More

Tennie White, owner, operator and manager of Mississippi Environmental Analytical Laboratories Inc., was charged in a three-count felony indictment with two false statements counts and one count of obstructing proceedings. The jury found White guilty of all counts after an eight day trial before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate at the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss....More