Whitman Defends EPA Actions in 9/11 Aftermath
Testifying for the first time at a congressional hearing convened solely to evaluate EPAs actions in the aftermath of the World Trade Center terrorist...
Workzone Visibility
Workplace environment, health and safety news for safety, health and industrial hygiene professionals in the manufacturing, construction, and service sectors...
Subway Track Worker Bill Passes N.Y. Senate
The bill, which came in the wake of the deaths of two track workers who died in separate incidents, calls for the creation of the New York City Transit...
ASSE: Safe and Sorry?
Hart, who works as a corporate psychologist for the nonprofit Industrial Foundation for Accident Prevention (IFAP) in Australia, has collected quantitative...
ASSE: Understanding the Implications of Fire Ground Strategies
Frank Baker, CSP, CFPS, ALCM, from Employers Security Insurance Co./Affinity Management Services of Indianapolis, offered insight for safety professionals...
OSHA Accepting Harwood Grant Applications
Nonprofit organizations, including community-based and faith-based organizations that are not an agency of a state or local government, are eligible to...
SONS: Spill of National Significance Exercise 2007
SONS Spill of National Significance Exercise 2007 is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). The...
Senate Passes Resolution to Make Sept. 25 National First Responder Appreciation Day
From recent tornados in the Southeast and wildfires in the West, to the tragic events at Virginia Tech, and the wrath of Hurricane Katrina, our first...
RAND: Katrina Response Shows Need to Earmark National Guard Units for Disaster Work
Studying lessons offered by the response to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, RAND researchers recommend the Army create 10 regional task forces in...
U.S. Army Reaches Major Chemical Weapons Convention Milestone
We successfully met the 1 percent, 20 percent and 45 percent destruction milestones specified by the treaty while maintaining an outstanding safety record,...
Minn. Unions, Lawmakers Angered by Delay of Cancer Data
In a group of 72,000 people who worked in the state's iron mining industry between the 1930s and 1982, six more cases were identified, which brings the...
Is Your Community Prepared for a Bioterrorism Attack?
Nearly five and a half years later, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader William Frist told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that an inevitable...
House Labor Committee Approves Diacetyl Bill
Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., on June 13 introduced the Popcorn Workers Lung Disease Prevention Act (H.R. 2693), which, if signed, would require OSHA to...
Blood Drive to Be Held at ASSE Conference
According to FBC, 65 percent of the Florida population is eligible to give blood but only 5 percent of the population actually donates. FBC needs at least...
AIHce: Industry Ready to Transition to GHS
In an effort to educate and take the pulse of key industry leaders, Smyrna, Tenn.-based SiteHawk a provider of Web-based material safety data sheets (MSDSs)...
Nine Firefighters Perish in Warehouse Blaze
These are historic figures that will never be forgotten, Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley Jr. said. They gave their lives unflinchingly to protect the lives...
Investment Manager Accused of Defrauding Ohio BWC
In an indictment filed June 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Lay is charged with three counts of fraud and one count of...
Democrats Seek to Bolster MINER Act
According to the bill sponsors Reps. George Miller, D-Calif., and Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. the goal of the legislation is...
MSHA Puts Eight Mine Operators on Notice
As part of an enhanced enforcement initiative, the eight mine operators received letters putting them on notice that each has a potential pattern of safety...
Refineries Facing Tighter OSHA Scrutiny
The agency announced that it is launching a national emphasis program in an effort to determine if refineries are complying with its process safety management...
European Court Upholds U.K. Safety Laws
The European Commission argued that a phrase in the United Kingdom's Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 that employers are responsible for the safety,...
Panel Rejects Sick Nuclear Workers' Plea
The workers formerly employed at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant for years have been trying to get compensation and had to go through an arduous...
BLS: Mechanics More Likely to Be Killed, Injured
In an article in the agency's Compensation and Working Conditions Online, BLS economist Sean Smith points out that mechanics experience higher rates of...
World Health Org. Calls for Smoking Bans
In its document Policy Recommendations on Protection From Exposure to Secondhand Tobacco Smoke which the organization issue May 29 to coincide with World...
Democrats' Bill Would Force OSHA to Issue Diacetyl Rule
California Rep. Lynn Woolsey's new measure would require OSHA within 90 days to issue an interim final standard to minimize workers exposure to diacetyl...
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