The U.S. Supreme Courts recent ruling that resident physicians are classified as workers - not students - for the purpose of paying Social Security taxes should mean that residents get the same protections afforded to other workers, according to Public Citizen, a nonprofit public interest advocacy organization.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Georgia Gulf Chemicals & Vinyls LLC with 14 serious violations for exposing workers to multiple safety and health hazards at the company's facility in Plaquemine. Proposed penalties total $55,000.
OSHA has issued the Bridgford Foods Processing Corp. facility in Chicago 10 safety citations for failing to implement and provide training for workers on lockout/tagout procedures, thereby exposing them to energized equipment. The meat processing plant is facing proposed penalties of $212,000.
Two Pennsylvania companies have been cited by OSHA for workplace safety violations following the deaths of two workers at a well site explosion in Cheswick.
The Gulf oil disaster was forseeable and preventable, and similar large-scale catastrophes are likely in the future unless serious reforms are undertaken, according to a report just released by the Oil Spill Commission.
JE Amorello, Inc. of Worster, Massachusets exposed workers to trenching hazards, according to OSHA, which has issued willful and serious citations against the company. JE Amorello also faces more than
A new type of lung cancer screening may help workers who are at increased risk for the disease because of past occupational exposures, according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
While a recent report from OMB Watch criticized the Obama administration for moving too slowly on regulatory enforcement during its first two years, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce describes the same period as having "an unprecedented exposion of new regulatory activity."
High rates of injury and illness -- and the specialized nature of some occupations -- are getting the maritime industry special attention from OSHA. Secretary of Labor Hilda L.Solis plans to re-establish the agency's Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, according to an agency press release.
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public Board meeting tomorrow to consider a safety study on the effectiveness of airbags in general aviation aircraft.
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