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The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a final rule limiting the number of consecutive hours passenger railroad workers can be on the job. 

The first-shift guys tell you they work together as a team. They are the best shift in every way. And they always clean up and set up for second shift.

You may remember the popular question, “It’s 11:00: Do you know where your children are?”

Building permanent walls is definitely one way to quiet things down — and guard against bothersome and potentially harmful noise.

A consumer advocacy organization is criticizing OSHA for making “little to no progress” on limiting workers’ exposure to beryllium, a substance which is considered an occupational carcinogen by NIOSH.

FieldServer Technologies, a leading developer of building  automation interface protocol gateways, announced today the release of the Point Six Wireless Gateway,  Point Six Wireless manufactures a variety of unique, high value wireless solutions for commercial and industrial OEMs. 

Sierra Monitor Corporation (OTC: SRMC.OB), a company that designs, manufactures and sells electronic safety and environmental instrumentation, today announced that it has been awarded an order to supply fire and gas instrumentation to be installed in a major Middle East project. 

No link between cancer and the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City has been found according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), which this week issued the First Periodic Review of Scientific and Medical Evidence Related to Cancer for the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program.

The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, alleging that Full Circle Enterprises Inc. of Conroe, Texas illegally terminated an employee because of complaints regarding illegal drug use and a lack of proper respirators to protect employees from paint fumes at the facility.