At the recent International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) Executive Summit in Tucson, Ariz., Frank White, a former top OSHA aide and currently senior vice president of the consulting firm ORC Worldwide’s Washington, D.C., office, presented an up to the minute overview of what he called “Strong winds of change” – safety and health policy and legislation in the Obama era.
These articles provide background on possible new directions at OSHA, and in many cases are written by influential though leaders of a more activist OSHA, or recent Obama appointees with influence on OSHA (OMB’s regulatory czar Cass Sunstein)
You might want to go out and purchase a copy of Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health (Oxford University Press, 2008), written by Dr. David Michaels, research professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Several sources tell ISHN that Dr. Michaels is very close to being named by the Obama administration as permanent assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health.
You might want to go out and purchase a copy of Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health (Oxford University Press, 2008), written by Dr. David Michaels, research professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Several sources tell ISHN that Dr. Michaels is very close to being named by the Obama administration as permanent assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson last week called for key changes to the process for reviewing National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to protect human health and the environment.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) commends OSHA on its recent decision to implement a multi-tiered enforcement program to ensure worker protection on projects related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), according to an AIHA press release
Four Indian human rights activists connected to the Bhopal chemical disaster of 1984 will be in the San Francisco Bay Area May 26 and 27 as part of a two-dozen city tour of the United States intended to raise awareness about the ongoing human suffering in this central Indian region, according to a press release issued by coordinators of the tour, the International Campaign for Justice In Bhopal.
OSHA is cracking down on fraudulent trainers by improving how trainers become authorized to teach and ensuring these trainers are in compliance with OSHA program guidelines, according to an agency press release.
Georgia-Pacific, a manufacturing company headquartered in Atlanta, has agreed to perform remedial work at an estimated cost of nearly $13 million to contain two former disposal areas within the Kalamazoo River Superfund site in Allegan and Kalamazoo Counties, Mich., the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced.
To remind Americans to practice sun-safe behaviors on Memorial Day weekend and the rest of summer, EPA’s SunWise Program and the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention have designated the Friday before Memorial Day as “Don’t Fry Day.” Skin cancer is largely preventable; however, new cases of melanoma, the most deadly of skin cancers, continue to rise at a faster rate than the seven most common cancers, according to the EPA.