ISEA safety course graduates its 1,500th Student

Expansion plans are underway

By Lydia Baugh

In 1996, when a training program was developed for sales and marketing personnel from personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturers and distributors, nobody looked 20 years into the future. It started as a project jointly sponsored by the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) and the former Safety Equipment Distributors Association.

Miners: Blankenship’s prison term is “outrageous”

The one year sentence handed down yesterday to former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship for his role in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster is not enough, say miners and occupational safety advocates.

A NIOSH Science Blog post

How employers can keep older drivers safe at work

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of work-related deaths in the United States. Millions of workers, such as long-haul truck drivers, sales representatives, and home health care staff, drive or ride in a motor vehicle as part of their jobs.

CDC offers emergency response training to EHS professionals

Environmental health practitioners may perform critical functions during emergency response and recovery, such as conducting shelter assessments, testing drinking water supplies, performing food safety inspections, and controlling disease-causing vectors.

Blankenship gets a year behind bars in UBB mine disaster

Guilty verdict was a landmark occupational safety case

Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was sentenced today to a year in prison for his role in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster that killed 29 miners.

Lace up and go!

Thousands of Americans are lacing up their sneakers today and walking as part of the American Heart Association’s (AHA) annual National Walking Day.

Disneyland Paris tech dies in park’s haunted house

A 45-year-old employee of Disneyland Paris died in the theme park’s Phantom Manor attraction on Saturday morning, before the park opened for the day.

Super safety, health hazards found at Florida Walmart Supercenter

Global retailer violates corporate-wide safety agreement

Walmart continues to endanger the safety and health of its employees despite a 2013 corporate-wide settlement agreement* with the OSHA to improve safety and health conditions at all of its store locations.

CDC offers EHS resources organized by essential services

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has unveiled an addition to its EHS website: resources organized by essential services. The CDC says it’s a place to find tools to help your program fill performance gaps and contribute to larger performance improvement efforts such as voluntary public health accreditation. 

Inside a Purina facility: fall, grain dust and machine hazards

Workers at a Purina feed mill were exposed to 6 – 10 foot falls from ladderway floor openings and platforms lacking guardrails, OSHA investigators found during an October 2015 inspection of the Wichita, Kansas facility.

Protect welders from exposures that can cause vision loss

Daniel Birch

Welding is a full-time job for nearly 400,000 Americans, with many more conducting welding-related operations on a part-time or occasional basis.

FMCSA bans Canadian truck driver from operating in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Ontario, Canada-licensed truck driver Inderjit Singh Gill to be an imminent hazard to public safety, prohibiting him from operating any commercial motor vehicle in the United States.

U.S. Department of Labor blog

Early Detection Saves Lives: How to #StopSilicosis

Dr. Robert Harrison

When I learned about the dangers of silica dust in medical school in the 1970s, at the beginning of my career in occupational medicine, I thought silica dust was only of historical interest, or a hazard for just a few especially vulnerable workers with unscrupulous employers.