Two safety videos created by U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) have received prestigious Golden Eagle awards from CINE, an international organization that recognizes high standards of excellence in film and video production.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Pasadena Refining Services Inc. with 21 serious violations for exposing workers to multiple safety and health hazards at the company's facility in Pasadena.
The new year didn't get off to a very good start for two St. Louis, MO employers arrested for repeatedly ignoring OSHA citations. Brian Andre, former owner of Andre Tuckpointing and Brickwork, and Regina Shaw, owner of Andre Stone & Mason Work Inc. --the successor company to Andre Tuckpointing and Brickwork -- were taken into custody Dec. 28th after the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ordered their arrest and incarceration for repeatedly failing to comply with court sanctions enforcing OSHA citations that had become final orders of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
For the first time ever, OSHA is pursuing an "enterprise-wide relief" as a remedy for alleged electrical work safety violations. The enterprise in question? The United States Postal Service.
Having an employee crushed to death by a crane has resulted in LM Wind Power Blades, Inc., of Grand Forks, N.D. being hit with five OSHA safety violations -- one of them willful.
In light of the recent blizzard and in anticipation of more winter storms, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a reminder to workers, employers and the general public of the hazards associated with snow removal and recovery work.
Hearing advocates are defending OSHA's decision to change its interpretation of noise control enforcement, saying that many employers’ concerns are based on “misunderstandings.”
Want a sneak peek at rules that federal regulatory agencies are planning to pass in 2011? Just go online. Officials at seven U.S. Department of Labor agencies will discuss their upcoming regulatory agenda in live web chats and one conference call during the first week of January, according to an OSHA media advisory.
A Kansas grain company has been cited by OSHA, following the death of a worker who was killed after falling through an unguarded access hole in a grain bin. The Weskan, Kansas-based CHS Inc., doing business as United Plains Ag, received one willful and one serious citation, along with $75,000 in fines.
Researchers at the National institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have created a guide to teach miners the basics of operating a refuge chamber in the event of a mine emergency.
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