Persistent rainfall has continued rain has complicated the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation into the Feb. natural-gas related house explosion in Dallas that killed a young girl.
The incident claimed the life of the 12-year-old, injured several other people and destroyed a single family home.
On the heels of an announcement by the National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) that that organization is fast-tracking an active shooter response standard comes word that the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) is also taking steps to address the issue.
The ASSE convened a working group of safety and health experts to provide insights into the development of an active shooter technical report, which could guide organizations toward safer work environments with fewer hostile events.
Two organizations dedicated to fire prevention have chosen a day on which a technology that can do just that will be the focus.
The National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) and the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition (HFSC) have designated May 19, 2018 as Home Fire Sprinkler Day.
Home fires claim the lives of seven people each day.
Signage is often posted to make everyone aware of a hazard, but when signage is overwhelming, unclear, vague, improperly placed or poorly maintained it’s true purpose can become minimized or defeated.
A rise in active shooter incidents and the escalating impact of hostile events has prompted the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) to process NFPA 3000, Standard for Preparedness and Response to Active Shooter and/or Hostile Events as a provisional standard, which means it would be available for use as early as April, 2018.
At many companies, employees complain of hitting the glass ceiling as they try to advance their careers. At Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, glass walls are the problem. Apple Park opened to employees in April, 2017 – while construction was still ongoing – but giving workers early access apparently didn’t help them acclimate themselves to their new surroundings.
Rotating Equipment Repair (RER) has had no recordable incidents of worker injuries in the last six years, but that wasn’t always the case. When the Sussex, Wisconsin-based company, that provides parts and services for high-energy pumps reached out in 2008 to OSHA's On-Site Consultation Program for help improving its safety and health program, the company had experienced two recordable injuries that year.
A New York State paper milling company has agreed to improve safety and health conditions at its Carthage facility and pay $175,000 in penalties, under a settlement reached with OSHA.
Carthage Specialty Paperboard Inc. was cited for 62 safety and health violations in June 2017.
Although Crock-Pot objected to one of its products being used as the cause of a fatal, if fictional, home fire, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) says the episode of the NBC TV show “This is Us” depicting the blaze provides valuable lessons.
In the highly-rated drama, a defective slow cooker sparks a fire in the kitchen of a home that quickly spreads to curtains and then to the rest of the house. The family members are trapped in second floor bedrooms.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is one of the federal agencies slated for elimination under the 2019 budget proposal unveiled by President Trump today.
The CSB is an independent agency whose mission is to investigate industrial chemical accidents, determine their causes and make recommendations to plants, regulatory agencies such as OSHA and the EPA, industry organizations, and labor groups about ways to reduce the risk of similar accidents in the future.
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