Jordan Barab, author of the popular, pro-labor safety blog Confined Space, is ending his participation in the site. The former director of AFSCME’s health and safety program, OSHA labor liaison under Clinton, and AFL-CIO health and safety consultant announced this week that he has accepted a position in the new Democratic-controlled Congress with the House Committee on Education and Labor.
R.S. Audley Inc., a contractor in Bow, N.H., faces a total of $50,000 in proposed fines for alleged cave-in hazards at worksites in North Conway and Pembroke, and Powershot Utility Construction Services LLC of Nashua faces $64,700 in proposed for alleged cave-in hazards at a North Conway worksite, OSHA announced this week.
Canada’s most populous province has reduced its noise exposure limits and introduced a time-weighted average exposure limit, announced Ontario’s Minister of Labour, Steve Peters.
An updated NIOSH study of asbestos-related diseases among vermiculite miners, millers and processors in Libby, Mont., was published earlier this month by Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed research journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, on Jan. 3.
The Democratic members of the House Committee on Education and Labor met Thursday morning to approve subcommittee chairs and memberships for the 110th Congress, announced committee chairman George Miller, D-Calif.
An updated NIOSH study of asbestos-related diseases among vermiculite miners, millers and processors in Libby, Mt., has been published online by Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed research journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIOSH).
As a massive front of winter weather moves its way across the Eastern United States, federal and state OS&H agencies, as well as safety associations, are urging enterprises not closed for Martin Luther King Day to take especial caution for the safety of their workers today.
Providing participants in Boston's YouthBuild program with safety and health training and resources is the goal of a new alliance among OSHA, the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Safety (MA-DOS) and YouthBuild Boston (YBB).
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