Articles Tagged with ''injuries''

OSHA has launched a new National Emphasis Program (NEP) for Nursing and Residential Care Facilities in an effort to reduce occupational illnesses and injuries. that are common in medical industries.

Approximately 14,900 workplaces with above average numbers of worker injuries and illnesses recently received a letter from Dr. David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.

Question: “At many of our manufacturing sites we are reaching a point in our safety journey that they are struggling to understand.

When people hear that I work in safety they invariably ask if what I do is mostly common sense.

OSHA has issued a Request for Information* (RFI) that seeks comments on how to prevent injuries and deaths from reinforcing concrete activities in construction, and from vehicles and mobile equipment backing into workers in construction, general industry, agriculture and the maritime industry.

Richard Fairfax, OSHA deputy assistant secretary issued a memorandum on March 12, 2012 to agency regional administrators and whistleblower protection program managers that might have slipped under the radar of many safety professionals.

In 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that fatal work injuries involving falls decreased 2 percent in 2010 (from 645 in 2009 to 635 in 2010).

The more than 26,000 injuries to children and teens on U.S. farms each year add up to costs of more than $1.4 billion, according to a new study.

A Statement by the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO: The Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Mine Safety and Health Act promise workers the right to a safe job.

March 2012 marks the return of Workplace Eye Wellness Month, an annual nationwide campaign to raise awareness of work-related eye injuries and how to prevent them through proper vision protection.