The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Wednesday announced the availability of an online service that enables mine operators, miners and others to monitor a mining operation to determine if it could be subject to a potential pattern of violations.
Of the more than 7,500 state legislative measures currently in various stages of development, approximately 250 were important enough to warrant attention from the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), according to its director of government affairs, Aaron Trippler.
With Senate Republicans vowing to block any legislation not related to federal spending, OSHA reforms won’t get much attention any time soon – or will they?
Long-term exposure to manganese in welding fumes may affect welders' brains over time, according to a new, small study described in the National Institutes of Health’s MedLine Plus website.
Concerned over what it sees as a significant potential for “compliance enforcement excesses,” the St. Louis, MO chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers has notified OSHA about its opposition to the agency’s proposed I2P2 standard.
With Congress and President Obama apparently at an impasse over the remaining six months of the fy 2011 federal budget, a shut down on Saturday, April 9 seems imminent.
To commemorate “National Workplace Wellness Week,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Business Civic Leadership Center yesterday hosted a forum entitled, “Workplace Wellness: How Business is Part of the Solution,” to address the state of workplace wellness programs and highlight the new trends, challenges, and opportunities to improve health and wellness.
Making a few simple changes in the workplace can help employees avoid gaining weight, according to a study in the March Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
Two federal programs that are on the chopping block are a “vitally important investment” in workplace safety, according to a letter sent by the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) to Congress.