To bring the noise attenuation ratings more in line with real-world usage, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce new labeling requirements.
AIHA’s new Value Strategy uses an eight-step process to identify and quantify the financial and non-financial links between industrial hygiene investment and business value.
“We have always sought to provide a culture of safety first and foremost. Our employees are our number one asset. I know a lot of people say this, but we live it.”
OSHA chief Edwin G. Foulke Jr. is scheduled to speak at the Textile Rental Services Association of America (TRSA) CEO Summit to be held Sept. 18-19 in Boston.
Dennis R. Shirar, a Heritage Transport, LLC professional truck driver based in Indianapolis, Ind., was named the 2008 National Truck Driving Grand Champion.
A total of 5,488 fatal work injuries were recorded in the United States in 2007, a decrease of 6 percent from the revised total of 5,840 fatal work injuries reported for 2006. While these results are considered preliminary, this figure represents the smallest annual preliminary total since the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) program was first conducted in 1992. Final results for 2007 will be released in April 2009.
In a response to yesterday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report announcing a decline in worker fatalities, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao issued the following statement:
"This is continued evidence that the initiatives and programs to protect workers' safety and health, designed by and implemented in this administration, are indeed working. In addition to a decline in the overall number of fatalities, the rate for 2007 declined to 3.7 fatalities per 100,000 workers. This is the lowest fatality rate in recorded OSHA history."
With the growing season in full swing and Farm Safety and Health Week approaching on September 21-27, 2008, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) urges all agricultural workers to be safe at work.
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