The Obama administration on Thursday once again sided with industry instead of workers on regulations and withdrew the Department of Labor's (DOL) proposed rules that would have restricted child workers from the most dangerous tasks in agriculture.
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) released its 2011 Corporate Sustainability Report on Earth Day, outlining its performance in five non-financial areas – environmental, ethics, diversity and inclusion, global community outreach, and occupational health and safety.
An outbreak of irritating insect bites among federal employees in Clarksville, Tennessee last year turned out to be due to a bedbug infestation in the building where they worked, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association® (AIHA) will be one of the many organizations oberserving Workers Memorial Day and the National Day of Mourning on April 28.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that a May, 2010 accident involving a ferry striking a terminal occurred when the ferry lost propulsion control of one its two cycloidal propellers as the vessel approached St. George terminal, Staten Island, New York.
A new study on occupational safety among teenaged workers in the U.S. found that 20,000 teens were injured and 88 killed in work-related incidents in 2010.