ormer Massey Energy CEO Donald Blankenship was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to willfully violate mine health and safety standards. He was investigated after 29 workers died during an explosion at Massey's Upper Big Branch mine on April 5, 2010.
ormer Massey Energy CEO Donald Blankenship was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to willfully violate mine health and safety standards. He was investigated after 29 workers died during an explosion at Massey's Upper Big Branch mine on April 5, 2010....More
Working alone is a risk outlined in MSHA 30 CFR 56.18020. It states:
No employee shall be assigned, or allowed, or be required to perform work alone in any area where hazardous conditions exist that would endanger the employee's safety unless the employee can communicate with others, can be heard, or can be seen....More
Named by President George W. Bush to head OSHA, Edwin G. Foulke Jr. served from April 2006 to November 2008. He also served on the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) in Washington, D.C., chairing the commission from March 1990 to February 1994. Foulke is the only person in the United States to serve as both head of OSHA and chairman of OSHRC....More
As many as 22 million workers are exposed to hazardous noise every day at work. To combat that significant occupational health and safety challenge, OSHA, MSHA and NIOSH developed the “Hear and Now” Noise Safety Challenge. Open to the entrepreneur community, the challenge offered 10 inventors, selected from 28 challenge submissions, the opportunity to travel from all over the United States and Canada to present their solutions to better protect workers from hazardous noise....More
As I write this while working from home on Sept. 8, it is a warm, sunny, perfect late-summer day. Almost too warm. Almost too perfect. It’s hard to believe that autumn, followed quickly by winter, will be here before I know it.
On Sept. 11, 2001, my circumstances were different: I was living in a different home, had a different job, was “almost” engaged to a different man, had different dogs… One thing was the same: it was a warm, sunny, perfect late-summer day and I was working from home. Life could not have been sweeter....More
Workers at a Cargill Salt Mines location in upstate New York were freed after having been trapped some 70 stories underground when an elevator broke down. The mine shaft is the deepest salt mine in North America at 2,300 feet....More
At first glance, the case was no different than many other OSHA fatality investigations. An employee suffered a fatal fall, the employer claimed he had issued fall protection to his employees and this particular employee, for whatever reason, wasn’t wearing it when he fell....More
You have seen the news. The jury convicted Don Blankenship of conspiracy to willfully violate mandatory federal mine safety and health standards at Upper Big Branch South Mine (UBB).
Such an important case deserves some scrutiny of the details. They are in the federal grand jury indictment....More
After a two-month trial in U.S. District Court in Charleston, W.Va., former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship has been convicted of a misdemeanor charge of conspiracy, one of three criminal counts against him. A jury found that Blankenship, from about Jan. 1, 2008 through about April 9, 2010, conspired to commit and cause “routine, willful violations” of mandatory federal mine safety and health standards at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine, located in Raleigh County, W. Va....More
Each month, EHS Today features the latest personal productive equipment and safety software for the workplace.
The June 2017 issue highlights products from UL, Brady, Rosetta Stone, ClickSafety, Mil-Ram Technology, VelocityEHS, Pelican Products Inc., Carhartt, FallTech and Mount Vernon FR.
To view the product descriptions and photos, use the arrows to move back and forth through the slideshow.
Each month, EHS Today features the latest product innovations geared to enhance your workplace safety initiatives.
The May 2017 issue highlights products from Seeq, Loftware, Sphera, PIRTEK, Honeywell, Justrite Manufacturing Co., Brady SPC and FallTech.
To view the product descriptions and photos, use the arrows to move back and forth through the slideshow.
An estimated 409 people may be killed and 47,000 seriously injured in motor vehicle accidents during Memorial Day weekend this year, according to the National Safety Council.
The number of fatalities is expected to be 12 percent higher than the average number of deaths, 364, that occurred in the past six years. The three-day holiday period begins at 6 p.m. ET Friday, May 26 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET Monday, May 29.
When UC Berkley Professor Homayoon Kazerooni arrived from Iran to America in the late 1970s, he had just a few hundred bucks in his pocket. He also had big dreams.
Those dreams have translated into an invention that allowed people to walk again after paralyzing accidents and illnesses. Called the eLEGS, the device was a medical exoskeleton that restores the ability of paraplegics, MS patients and stroke victims to walk.
Workers in the United States spend more time in the office or on the job site than any other country, according to a 2015 Gallup poll.
An average of 47 hours per week per employees leads to an increase in productivity, but the Economic Policy Institute says that incomes have failed to rise as productivity grows, leading to wage inequality and potential burnout if the work environment becomes too stressful.
The numbers don't lie.
According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), women make up 65 percent of age-related macular degeneration cases, 61 percent of glaucoma and cataract patients are women and 66 percent of blind patients are women.
