A significant majority of U.S. employers believe health care reform, if enacted, would lead to higher costs for both employer-sponsored benefit programs and health care services overall, according to initial results from an employer survey conducted by Towers Watson and the National Business Group on Health.
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) President C. Christopher Patton, CSP, said in a recent press release that ASSE is saddened by the sudden loss of Chris Walters, an ASSE member since 1981 who worked as a safety professional for more than 20 years. He was not only dedicated to protecting people, property and the environment, but to his wife, Fran, and their three children.
The National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) Fire Safety Educational Memorial Fund Committee has selected the Chautauqua County Hazardous Materials Response Team from New York as the recipient of the 2010 Warren E. Isman Educational Grant, according to an NFPA press release.
A Portland, Conn., asphalt company has agreed to pay $68,400 in penalties for failing to comply with federal regulations designed to prevent oil spills from reaching waterways, according to a press release from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
More than 175 organizations issued the following letter of support to the President, the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives to strongly support comprehensive health reform efforts, emphasizing the need to modernize and increase funding for disease prevention, wellness, and public health in the United States, according to a press release from the non-profit, non-partisan organization Trust for America’s Health.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families, friends and loved ones of those workers killed and injured in Sunday’s explosion in Middletown,” said Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, in a press statement issued in the aftermath of Sunday’s explosion at the Kleen Energy Plant in Middletown, Connecticut that left five workers dead and at least 12 injured. “The safety and health of workers is of paramount importance to me and to the U.S. Department of Labor. Inspectors from OSHA arrived on site Sunday afternoon to conduct a comprehensive investigation and are working in cooperation with other agencies.”
Airgas, Inc., one of the nation’s largest distributors of safety products and the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases, has confirmed that it has received an unsolicited proposal from Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE: APD) (“Air Products”) to acquire the company for $60.00 per share.
The American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Management Practice Specialty and Service Branch Groups today congratulated the CEOs for taking the initiative to learn more about their company employees, vendors and customers by going undercover and behind the scenes in the new CBS show ‘Undercover Boss’. For future ‘Undercover Bosses’, ASSE has a couple of suggestions aimed at keeping them safe on the job.
The “OSHA Listens” national hearing to solicit public input on the agency’s future agenda, scheduled for Wednesday, February 10, has been postponed due to this past weekend’s blizzard that buried DC in more than two feet of snow, and forecasts for more snow this week. The agency said a new date will be set.
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