OSHA recently published Hexavalent Chromium, a booklet outlining industry requirements for hexavalent chromium standards. Workers exposed to this toxic chemical can develop lung cancer and damage to the nose, throat and respiratory system.
New OSHA boss Dr. David Michaels, an epidemiologist and former professor in the George Washington University Department of Environment and Occupational Health, has had little time to make his views known of OSHA issues of the day.
Do we still need traditional Occupational Exposure Limits (OELs) to compare with exposures, perform risk assessments and identify control approaches? Or have traditional OELs run their course of usefulness?
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) recently released remarks in response to OSHA’s request for comments on the proposed rule to adapt the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).
OSHA announced in a press release that the agency has completed inspections prompted by a June 29, 2009, triple fatality at a Jamaica, N.Y., recycling facility. An employee of S. Dahan Piping and Heating Co., of South Ozone, N.Y., was fatally overcome by hydrogen sulfide gas while cleaning a dry well at Regal Recycling Co. Inc. The owner of S. Dahan Piping and Heating, who was also the worker’s father, and a Regal Recycling employee also succumbed while trying to rescue him from the dry well.
Highway safety advocates have released the seventh annual report card grading all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their performance when it comes to adopting and maintaining model traffic safety laws. This year the report publishers, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, say they’ve upped the ante, taking closer aim at three particular areas in need of stronger enforcement — text messaging, graduated driver licensing (GDL) programs and ignitionâ€interlock laws for drunkâ€driving offenders, according to a press release issued by the organization.
A former employee of Corpus Christi-based Orion Drilling Co., fired after complaining to management about being exposed to mold in the workplace, has been paid $10,000 in back wages as a result of a settlement secured by the U.S. Department of Labor, according to an OSHA press release.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has sued the owners of bankrupt Mid-States Express Inc. of Aurora, Ill., for allegedly failing to protect the interests of the participants and beneficiaries in the company's 401(k) and health plans, according to a DOL press release.
Michael Sayklay, the former vice president of Economy Cash & Carry Inc., a Texas-based grocery wholesaler, pleaded guilty today in federal court in El Paso, Texas, to a criminal violation of the Plant Protection Act, the Justice Department and the Department of Agriculture announced.
OSHA has cited Lyons & Sons Inc. with seven serious citations and Cocoa Services LP with five serious citations for workplace safety and health violations following the death of a worker, according to an agency press statement.