The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), Des Plains, Iowa, will be host to an Audio Conference Call Wednesday, Oct. 18, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CDT to discuss the role leadership plays in improving and developing sustainable ergonomic behavior in the workplace to help reduce injuries.
A worker who was critically burned in an electrical fire at the new Bloomington, Ind., Wal-Mart Supercenter in August has filed a lawsuit alleging Wal-Mart and two other companies did not provide proper safety, according to the Associated Press.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare (AOHP) have established a collaborative partnership to improve workplace safety and health in the health care setting.
OSHA announced yesterday that employers in the construction industry may begin applying for participation in OSHA's newest component of its premiere cooperative program — the VPP Mobile Workforce Demonstration for Construction.
The owner of a bus that exploded and killed 23 people during the Hurricane Rita evacuation was acquitted of one safety violation charge but was convicted on two lesser counts.
With transportation crashes continuing to be the number one cause of on-the-job deaths each year, the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety’s (NETS) has branded this week – Oct. 2-6 – as Drive Safely Work Week.
OSHA has issued safety and health guidance to help small businesses comply with the agency's new hexavalent chromium, or Cr(VI), requirements for general industry, construction and shipyards.
OSHA has awarded more than $10 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants to 57 nonprofit organizations for safety and health training and educational programs.
Hazard communication (hazcom) training problems continue to stymie many employers and keep OSHA inspectors busy. The hazcom rule has been around for more than a decade, but it still leads all other general industry safety regulations in the number of federal OSHA violations year after year (more than 4,200 in 2004/2005). Hazcom training alone accounts for one-quarter of all hazcom violations.
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