In a letter sent to U.S. hospitals last week, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and The Joint Commission reminded hospital and health care employers that hazardous drugs such as antineoplastic drugs can pose serious job-related health risks to workers if proper precautions are not used in handling the drugs.
Cal-OSHA’s new chief, Ellen Widess, has a daunting task ahead of her: to review the agency’s operations and identify opportunities for streamlining it.
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.
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