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President George W. Bush intends to nominate Dave D. Lauriski to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health at the Department of Labor.

Arguing that OSHA’s new recordkeeping rule is “arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion,” the National Association of Manufacturers went to court March 19 seeking to have the requirements thrown out.

Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) has introduced a bipartisan bill to address ergonomic injuries in the workplace.

Short of workplace violence, “crying wolf” to the government that a company is seriously breaching its environmental health and safety responsibilities is usually the strongest way a disgruntled current or former employer can vent or retaliate against their present or past employer.

Every day, one thousand eye injuries occur in U.S. workplaces, and 250 of these workers lose their eyesight — some temporarily, some permanently.

While earplugs, canal caps, and earmuffs are used to protect against the majority of noise in the workplace, electronic or communication earmuffs are available for specialty uses and applications.

What you should know about testing programs, ADA compliance, and employee attitudes.

We continue to practice the more inconvenient but safe way of doing something either because someone is holding us accountable (behavior is still other-directed), or because we are holding ourselves accountable (the behavior has transitioned to self-directed).

For the first time ever, lawsuits have been filed attacking the basis and legality of voluntary Threshold Limit Values set by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists.

Just one in four U.S. adults exercised enough in the 1990s, says the Centers for Disease Control.