The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is deploying an investigation team to the site of an anhydrous ammonia release that occurred earlier this week at Tanner Industries, located south of Swansea, South Carolina, the agency announced.
An employee of a Sewell, N.J., sub-contractor that provided temporary electrical services was sentenced today to serve 20 months in jail for his role in a kickback and fraud scheme at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-designated Superfund site in New Jersey, the Department of Justice announced. The sub-contractor was also ordered to pay $154,597 in restitution to the EPA, jointly and severally with his co-conspirators.
As part of a multi-site settlement, G-I Holdings Inc. has agreed to address asbestos contamination caused by its past operation of the largest chrysotile asbestos mine and mill in the country, the United States and the state of Vermont have announced.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association® (AIHA) recently provided comments to Hon. John Conyers Jr. on HR 2381, “Nurse and Health Care Worker Protection Act of 2009,” a bill amending the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970. This legislation is being co-sponsored by Hon. Lynn C. Woolsey.
Said President Obama: "Health care reform is about every family’s health and the health of our economy. And if there’s anyone who understands the urgency of meeting this challenge in a personal and powerful way, it’s the woman who will become our nation’s next Surgeon General, Doctor Regina Benjamin. I look forward working with her in the months and years ahead."
Telling Americans to “do your part for airline safety and passenger sanity,” the AFL-CIO’s union of flight attendants is directing the public to send their senators a message urging the U.S. Senate to maintain the ban on in-flight cell phone use.
Adult obesity rates increased in 23 states and did not decrease in a single state in the past year, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America 2009, a report released by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
OSHA will hold a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH) July 15, 2009, to discuss topics including the agency's recordkeeping initiative and ethics rules.
A recent news story caught our eye, illustrating once more that job safety issues are not confined to inside the plant walls.
This story poses a challenge: What is your company’s policy, if one exists at all, on allowing employees with concealed-weapons permits to keep guns in their cars in company parking lots?
In this edition of ISHN’s Ezine, we look at the power of words to influence actions and attitudes. Specifically, we draw on lessons presented by Joe Sommerville, Ph. D., author of the new book, “Rainmaking Secrets Made Simple,” a guide to making effective presentations.
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