In a study published online Tuesday in Occupational & Environmental Medicine, gender-based differences in occupational exposures were found to be significant – even among men and women in the same occupation.
Two inspections more than a year apart found many of the same safety and health violations still in place at a New Jersey granite and marble countertop manufacturer.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating a wing tip clipping that occurred between an Airbus A380 (F- HPJD) and a Bombardier CRJ-700 (N641CA) at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York last night.
With federal funding for summer work programs dried, Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Hilda Solis is asking employers to provide summer job opportunities for young people.
OSGA has issued a hazard alert to hair salon owners and workers about potential formaldehyde exposure from working with some hair smoothing and straightening products.
OSHA has ordered the Union Pacific Railroad Co., headquartered in Omaha, Neb., to immediately reinstate an employee to his former position with the same pay and benefits, and to pay the employee more than $200,000, representing back wages, compensatory damages, attorney's fees and punitive damages.
OSHA has cited five companies for serious safety and health violations following a combustible dust flash fire that released hydrogen sulfide at the Eustace Gas Processing Plant in Eustace and hospitalized five workers.
As part of Alcohol Awareness Month, the American Psychology Association has released the following interview with Vivian B. Faden, PhD, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC) and associate director of Behavioral Research, in Bethesda, Md.