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NIOSH is requesting public comment on three draft documents related to research needs for prevention of death and injury in underground mining.

ASSE recently announced the approval of the new American National Standard Institute ANSI/ASSE A10.46-2007 standard.

A national study to interview teenagers about on-the-job dangers found many violations of federal laws, including teens performing risky tasks.

NIOSH is asking for public comment on a draft research strategy document on asbestos and other mineral fibers.

A new study has found that 37.9 percent of U.S. workers experience fatigue, and that the problem that carries billions of dollars in costs from lost productivity.

OSHA is inviting the public to participate in informal stakeholder meetings on Occupational Exposure to Ionizing Radiation, party of the agency’s information collection efforts to add to the information obtained in the Request for Information published on May 5, 2005.

In letters to Washington State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles and State Rep. Steve Conway sent this week, American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) president Donald S. Jones Sr., PE, CSP, expressed support for increased oversight of cranes on worksites by the Washington Department of Occupational Safety and Health, yet urged legislators to take a different approach then what is being presented in new crane safety legislation.

On March 1, OSHA will hold an open meeting of the Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health (FACOSH) in Washington, D.C.

The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), Des Plaines, Iowa, recently announced the approval of the new American National Standard Institute (ANSI) A10.22-2007 standard.

Findings from a Windsor, Ontario-based research project, published in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, are raising questions about a possible association between exposures in the construction industry and the risk of developing head and neck cancer.