EHS Today News Archive
At Least 5 Dead in Connecticut Power Plant Explosion
At least five workers are dead and two dozen injured following a Feb. 7 explosion at Kleen Energy Plant in Middletown, Conn. Media reports indicate up to five additional people may still be missing...
VPPPA: Despite Budget Concerns, VPP Will Continue to Thrive
Following the release of the OSHA FY 2011 budget request, which proposes reduced funding for compliance assistance programs, the Voluntary Protection Programs Participants’ Association Inc. (VPPPA) produced a video message stressing that the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) will continue to thrive even as the agency’s focus turns to enforcement...
ATA: Current Hours-of-Service Rules Improve Safety
On Jan. 28, representatives from affiliates and member companies of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and other trucking industry speakers told the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) that declining fatality and crash numbers show that safety has improved under current hours-of-service (HOS) rules...
Feb 1-5 is Clean Energy Week
Nearly 100 organizations in the renewable energy, energy efficiency and environmental arenas joined forces to turn February 1-5 into Clean Energy Week, an initiative advocating for comprehensive clean energy legislation, including provisions for energy efficiency, renewable efficiency and climate solutions...
NIOSH Releases Spanish-Language Construction Ergonomics Guide
NIOSH recently released a Spanish-language guide to help employers and workers effectively prevent job-related musculoskeletal injuries in the construction industry...
New OSHA QuickCards Address Marine Cargo Handling Operations
OSHA recently developed three QuickCards addressing worker safety topics in Marine cargo handling operations. These pocket-sized, laminated cards are designed to provide brief, easy-to-understand safety and health information for workers...
Top Three Myths about Workplace Injuries
How many times have you heard people saying something completely ridiculous or that you know just isn’t right? You don’t have to go very far these days to encounter such statements...
ASSE Announces its Top Legislative and Regulatory Issues for 2010
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) says that 12 key issues will dominate announced its legislative and regulatory agenda for 2010, which is aimed at ensuring that advances in occupational safety and health legislation and regulation reflect the experience, expertise and best practices of ASSE’s member environment, health and safety (EHS) professionals...
EPA’s Budget Seeks Increased Environmental Protection
The Obama administration proposed a budget of $10 billion for EPA that includes $1.3 billion for cleanup of Superfund sites, $215 million for cleanup of brownfields and $27 million for the agency’s new Healthy Community Initiative...
DOL 2011 Budget Request Includes OSHA Increase, Focus on Enforcement
On Feb. 1, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis outlined President Obama’s FY 2011 budget request for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), which is built around the vision of “good jobs for everyone” and includes a $14 million proposed increase for OSHA....
ASSE Works to Align Safety with Green Initiatives
As businesses, schools and communities go green, American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) occupational safety and health professional members are working with their organizations to incorporate safety practices in line with green initiatives...
Study: Workers’ Comp Patients Get Less Benefit from Back Surgery
According to a new study, surgery provides better results than non-surgical treatment for most patients with back pain related to a herniated disk – but not for those receiving workers’ compensation for work-related injuries...
OSHA Releases Workplace Injury and Illness Information
For the first time, OSHA has made the work-related injury and illness data collected from more than 80,000 employers from 1996 to 2007 available in a searchable online database, allowing the public to look at establishment or industry-specific injury and illness data...
Updated OSHA Guidance Aims to Protect Late-Night Retail Workers from Workplace Violence
OSHA recently updated its guidance document “Recommendations for Workplace Violence Prevention Programs in Late-Night Retail Establishments” that addresses issues causing late-night retail workers to be killed on the job...
At-Home Safety: Protecting Eyes from the Sun with Contact Lenses
A new study reported in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science found that UV-blocking contact lenses may reduce or eliminate the effects of the sun’s harmful UV radiation...
Chemical Safety Board Initiates Investigation of DuPont Facility in Belle, W.Va.
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Accident Investigation Board (CSB) voted to initiate an investigation of recent accidents at the DuPont chemical complex in Belle, W.Va., following a release of highly toxic phosgene on Jan. 23 that fatally injured a veteran operator...
EPA Strengthens Air Quality Standard for Nitrogen Dioxide
The first new NO2 standard in 35 years will improve air quality for millions, according to EPA, protecting millions of Americans from peak, short-term exposures that primarily occur near major roads. Short-term exposures to NO2 have been linked to impaired lung function and increased respiratory infections, especially in people with asthma...
Depressed Workers Have Decreased Productivity Despite Treatment Efforts
Employees with depression have higher costs related to short-term disability and absenteeism – even after receiving antidepressant therapy, reports a study in the February Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine...
New Report Address Work-Life Conflict Across Income Levels
On Jan. 25, the Center for American Progress and the Center for WorkLife Law at the UC Hastings College of the Law released a new report that analyzes the struggle millions of American families face in attempting to balance work and life responsibilities...
CSB Investigates Lab Explosion at Texas Tech University
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) recently announced it will investigate the causes of a Jan. 7 explosion that severely injured a graduate student at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas...
ASSE Offers Workplace Violence Prevention Tips
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) members urged employers to take action now to reduce the incidence of homicides in their workplace...
OSHA Solicits Comments from Stakeholders, Plans Public Meeting
OSHA recently announced a Feb. 10 “OSHA Listens” public meeting in Washington, D.C., designed to solicit comments and suggestions from OSHA stakeholders on key issues facing the agency...
ISEA Announces Updated Standard for High-Vis Safety Apparel
An updated national consensus standard for high-visibility safety apparel from the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) now includes service-life guidelines and provides criteria and test requirements for garments marked as flame- or water-resistant...
National Demolition Association Focus on Crisis Leadership, Green Marketing and Economic Recovery at Annual Convention
Gen. (Ret.) Daniel Christman, international affairs expert with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and former superintendent of West Point, will inspire attendees to the National Demolition Association’s (NDA) annual conference March 20-23 at The Mirage in Las Vegas to lead in times of crisis. Other sessions address disaster communications, “green” marketing, safety and planning for economic recovery. The convention is the largest exposition of demolition equipment and services in the world...
OSHA Proposes $55,200 in fines to Pembroke, Mass., Contractor for Cave-In Hazard
OSHA has cited CELCO Construction Corp. for alleged willful, serious and other-than-serious violations of safety standards after an OSHA inspector observed a company employee working in an unprotected, 6-foot deep excavation at a Randolph, Mass., work site. The Pembroke, Mass., construction contractor faces a total of $55,200 in proposed fines...
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