The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced announces a public meeting for receiving comments from the public on implementing the provisions of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-347).
Rep. John Barrow, a Savannah, Ga., Democrat, has introduced The Worker Protection Against Combustible Dust Explosions and Fires Act (H.R. 522). The bill would force OSHA to set requirements regulating combustible industrial dusts.
OSHA has cited Bona Via Inc., a Rochester, N.Y., manufacturer of pizza shells, for failing to correct safety hazards identified during a prior OSHA inspection and for newly identified hazards at its plant. The company faces a total of $195,200 in proposed fines.
An investigation launched after a worker became trapped in a machine and lost his right arm at the elbow ended with 14 safety and health violations for Prologix Distribution Services-East LLC in Doral Florida.
Hospitals, notorious for producing waste, could reduce health care costs by switching to environmentally friendly practices -- with no threat to patient safety, according to Johns Hopkins researchers.
A bill which would have give Congress control of the federal regulatory process is meeting with strong opposition from dozens of labor, environmental, consumer advocacy, health care and other groups, according to OMB Watch, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization.
“It's a sad day when OSHA becomes the whipping boy for a Democratic Administration” writes Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH, a professorial lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and former colleague of OSHA chief Dr. David Michaels, in her blog posted on “The Pump Handle.”
On Wednesday, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on the Labor Department’s policies and priorities. Here’s what she had to say in defense of OSHA:
With friends like this, NIOSH needs no enemies. President Obama’s FY12 budget proposal issued earlier this week calls for eliminating or “zero-ing out” in bureaucratese funding for NIOSH’s 17 ERCs for a savings of $25 million, according to the blog, “The Pump Handle.”
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