An investigation launched after a worker became trapped in a machine and lost his right arm at the elbow ended with 14 safety and health violations for Prologix Distribution Services-East LLC in Doral Florida.
Hospitals, notorious for producing waste, could reduce health care costs by switching to environmentally friendly practices -- with no threat to patient safety, according to Johns Hopkins researchers.
A bill which would have give Congress control of the federal regulatory process is meeting with strong opposition from dozens of labor, environmental, consumer advocacy, health care and other groups, according to OMB Watch, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization.
“It's a sad day when OSHA becomes the whipping boy for a Democratic Administration” writes Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH, a professorial lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and former colleague of OSHA chief Dr. David Michaels, in her blog posted on “The Pump Handle.”
On Wednesday, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on the Labor Department’s policies and priorities. Here’s what she had to say in defense of OSHA:
With friends like this, NIOSH needs no enemies. President Obama’s FY12 budget proposal issued earlier this week calls for eliminating or “zero-ing out” in bureaucratese funding for NIOSH’s 17 ERCs for a savings of $25 million, according to the blog, “The Pump Handle.”
The Republican spending bill being debated on the House floor this week will slash health and safety inspections and shut down OSHA’s popular website, Democrats on the House Workforce Protections Subcommittee said today in a statement.
Under President Obama’s FY12 budget, EPA will have to make do with $8.973 billion - about a 13 percent decrease from the FY 2010 budget of $10.3 billion.
Arsenic, lead and excessive noise were the hazards workers were exposed to at a drilling mud manufacturing plant in Mo, according to OSHA, which cited Cimbar Performance Minerals in Cadet for 23 violations of health and safety standards. Proposed penalties total $214,550.
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