The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has issued urgent safety recommendations calling on CITGO to immediately improve its emergency water mitigation system in the event of another release of potentially deadly hydrogen fluoride (HF) vapor, as occurred following an explosion and fire July 19, 2009, at CITGO’s Corpus Christi refinery. The Board also called on CITGO to perform third-party audits to ensure the safety of its hydrogen fluoride units at its Corpus Christi, Texas, and Lemont, Illinois, refineries.
American Industrial Hygiene Association Government Affairs Director Aaron Trippler offers in his latest Washington insider’s newsletter, “Happenings From The Hill,” this assessment of hot or emerging issues that did not find their way on to OSHA’s regulatory agenda released earlier this week.
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced OSHA has begun to publish the names of employers with reported fatalities on a weekly basis, according to a DOL press release.
American Industrial Hygiene Association Government Affairs Director Aaron Trippler offers in his latest Washington insider’s newsletter, “Happenings From The Hill,” this assessment of hot or emerging issues that did not find their way on to OSHA’s regulatory agenda released earlier this week.
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced OSHA has begun to publish the names of employers with reported fatalities on a weekly basis, according to a DOL press release.
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), in a recent press statement, offered the following tips to improve roadway safety during winter weather travel:
New research suggests that having too little vitamin D, the so-called sunshine vitamin, can contribute to heart disease, falls and broken bones, breast cancer, prostate cancer, depression, and memory loss, reports the December 2009 issue of the Harvard Heart Letter, according to a recent press release. Vitamin D is best known for building and maintaining healthy bones by helping the digestive system absorb calcium and phosphorus. But it does much, much more.
In a speech given to anti-impaired driving advocacy groups Monday, NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman said that
addressing the problem of impaired driving-related traffic
accidents is an important safety concern that she will seek
to advance as head of the nation's transportation accident
investigation agency, according to an agency press release.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is releasing its annual national analysis of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), according to an EPA press release. The TRI database contains information on chemical releases into the air, land and water, as well as waste management and pollution prevention activities. The analysis of the 2008 data, the most recent data set available, shows that 3.86 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the environment, a 6 percent decrease from 2007.
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