Small Steps to a Greener Workplace
Established in 2005, the San Francisco-based company offers a selection of office products focused on green alternatives and sustainability. Recycled...
CSB Recommends National Fire Code for Hazardous Waste Facilities
When investigating the October 2006 fire at the EQ hazardous waste transfer facility, CSB officials found that the facility was not staffed or monitored...
Winter Weather Injuries on the Rise for Canadian Workers
Between December 2007 and March 2008, 1,037 workplace injuries were attributed to winter weather a 64 percent jump from last year and twice as many injuries...
CSPs Escape Hiring Crunch in Slow Economy
According to Cindy Lewis, principal owner of Creative Safety Solutions, the recent economic downswing has not negatively affected the hiring climate for...
OSHA Launches Youth Job Safety Campaign
The Teen Summer Job Safety Campaign educates teenagers on the importance of workplace safety and health habits that will help protect them and their coworkers...
Revised BLS 2006 Stats Point to Rise, Not Decrease, in Workplace Deaths
In August 2007, BLS released its preliminary figures, which indicated that there were 5,703 fatal work injuries in the United States in 2006, a decrease...
GAO: MSHA's Emergency Response Plans Put Miners At Risk
According to the report, MSHA revised its guidance several times, causing delays in the emergency response plan adoption process. GAO found the agency...
USFA, NVFC Release Volunteer Fire Service Safety and Health Report
The volunteer fire service has distinct issues related to health and safety that need to be specifically addressed, said NVFC Chairman Philip Stittleburg....
OSHA to Provide EHS Training for Alabama Gulf Coast Construction Employers
Titled Rebuilding the Coast ... Safely, the conference is sponsored by OSHA, the American Society of Safety Engineers Mobile Chapter, the Alabama Chapter...
The High Cost of Workplace Tragedies: Leading Employees Through Crisis
Every day, construction workers leave home unaware that their next shift will include a co-workers death or serious injury. While they may be grateful...
ASARCO, EPA Reach $13.5 Million Cleanup Agreement
ASARCOs Hayden plant site is an active copper ore processing, concentrating and smelter facility with properties in Hayden and Winkelman, Ariz. EPA collected...
Ford's Virtual Tools Help Reduce Ergo Injuries
Ford employed an advanced motion capture technology commonly used in animated movies and digital games with human modeling software to design jobs that...
Ergonomics Risk Assessment: Determining When, Why, Who and How You Should Perform One
As ergonomics increasingly becomes a core component of safety programs around the country, the methods used to evaluate and define the ergonomics risk...
ASSE Announces New Construction Safety Standard
According to the standard, a pile refers to a concrete, steel or wood column that is driven or otherwise introduced into the soil, usually to carry a...
Critics Fear New EPA Risk Assessment Can Enable Corporate, Political Manipulation
On April 10, EPA announced it was revising its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), which provides human health risk information describing the...
Survey: Auto Industry Views Environmental Issues as Top Concern
More than half of the surveyed automotive designers and engineers said environmental factors, such as fuel economy, emissions or clean air regulations,...
Culture, Leadership Critical to Reducing Workplace Injuries
Carmen Bianco, an executive consultant with Behavioral Safety Technology (BST), told OccupationalHazards.com that company leaders significantly can influence...
Obesity Costly for Employers
The report, Weights and Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity, examines the financial and ethical questions surrounding whether, and how,...
Investing in Workplace Depression Treatment
Of the more than 6 percent of the workforce struggling with depression, only half receive treatment, and even fewer receive care consistent with current...
Laundering Socks with Nano Particles Possible Health, Environmental Risk
Researchers Paul Westerhoff and Troy Benn hypothesized in their report, Fate and transport of ionic and nanoparticle silver released from commercially...
Ageist Language Affects Workplace Productivity, Profits
Demographic trends point to a growing number of seniors in the workplace, with workers coming out of retirement or remaining in their jobs past their...
Mid Atlantic Construction Safety Conference
The Third Annual Mid Atlantic Construction Safety Conference, a regionally coordinated educational networking event, will be held at Martins Crosswinds...
House Committee Passes Combustible Dust Bill
An OSHA standard on combustible dust, House Democrats said, would help protect workers by requiring industries to better train employees about dust risks...
Fairfax: OSHA Plans PSM Inspections for Chemical Plants
Fairfax said he originally planned to launch the National Emphasis Program (NEP) for the chemical industry in late summer or early fall of 2008, but now...
Work Zone Awareness Week Calls for Caution, Slower Driving in Construction Zones
This year's campaign theme, Slow for the Cone Zone, seeks to bring national attention to motorist and employee safety and mobility issues in work zones....
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