The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) welcomed recent recommendations by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) to include reactive chemical safety education for chemical engineering students at U.S. universities.
OSHA has awarded more than $6.8 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants to 30 recipients, encompassing labor unions, employer associations, colleges and universities, and other nonprofit organizations. The training grants cover a two-year period.
In 2008, fires caused more than $15.5 billion in directly property loss. Fires in residential properties caused $8.6 billion of it. Findings from the newly released report U.S. Fire Loss in the United States in 2008 (PDF, 244 KB) appear in the latest issue of NFPA Journal®, the official magazine of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
In its continuing efforts to educate youth on what it means to be safe at work and what occupational safety and health professionals do every day to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) has launched its 8th annual kids' "Safety-on-the-Job" poster contest.
There is much potential to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gases through recycling, waste reduction, smart growth, and by reusing formerly contaminated sites including brownfields, according to EPA.
Effective treatment for employee mental health problems leads to significant improvements in productivity, according to a study in the September Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
People are ready to prevent any driver from starting a vehicle after drinking too much alcohol, even though the technology to do it isn't available yet.
OSHA announced in the September 14 Federal Register that it is opening the record on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on electric power generation, transmission, and distribution and for electrical protective equipment. This limited opening seeks to obtain comments related to safe proximity between a worker and exposed electrical parts.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today announced that four communities will receive technical assistance on growth and development-related issues through the agency’s Smart Growth Implementation Program. The agency also announced that the four communities, chosen from among more than 100 applicants, will also receive help from the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, thanks to the administration’s new Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities.
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