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When it comes to safety in your organization, have you ever felt like it was you against the world?

If the warning signs were present, why didn’t someone catch them?

Based on the growing popularity of SRLs, it is critical that fall protection training courses teach workers how to use these devices correctly.

OSHA has cited Modern Painting & Decorating of Springdale for workplace safety violations following a fatal worker electrocution at a New Kensington, Pa., worksite, an agency press release states.

Zurla Trucking of Fort Myers has been ordered by OSHA to reinstate a truck driver discharged for calling attention to safety issues, according to an agency press release. The company is also to pay back wages plus interest and compensatory damages, and delete any adverse references related to the discharge from the employee's personnel file. Additionally, the company has been ordered to pay $125,000 in punitive damages.

More than 1 in 4 high school students and adults ages 18 to 34 engaged in a dangerous behavior known as binge drinking during the past month, according to the findings from a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a CDC press release states. The report shows that each year more than 33 million adults have reported binge drinking, defined as having four or more drinks for women and five or more drinks for men over a short period of time, usually a couple of hours. And the report said levels of binge drinking have not declined during the past 15 years

The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration announced in a press release that it will hold public meetings in Arlington, Va., Sacramento, Calif., and Pittsburgh, Pa., to gather information about effective, comprehensive safety and health management programs at mines. The agency will use information gathered from these meetings to help develop a proposed rule for safety and health management programs for mines, which will enable miners and mine operators to be more proactive in their approach to health and safety matters.

Use these strategies to minimize the need to beat your safety system.

In conjunction with Drive Safely Work Week, OSHA has announced an education campaign calling on employers to prevent work-related distracted driving, with a special focus on prohibiting texting while driving, according to an agency press release.

While everything else in this world seems to be getting more complicated, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) keeps on getting simpler, reports the October 2010 issue of the Harvard Health Letter.