The Trust for America's Health (TFAH) commended the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee for approving an historic $1.27 billion for prevention and public health for fiscal year 2011. This proposed funding would include $750 million, the second installment of the new Prevention and Public Health Fund that was created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
To curb suicides in the Army, commanders must pay more attention to junior soldiers and to those who exhibit high-risk behavior, such as drug use or driving under the influence.
The Senate has joined the House of Representatives in passing an aviation bill that would mark the first comprehensive effort in decades to revise safety rules for airline pilots.
The House of Representatives has given final approval to legislation to reduce the backlog of more than 17,000 cases involving mine operator appeals of safety and health violations.
Indicative of public and political opinion of offshore oil drilling more than 100 days after the BP oil leak began, the House has approved by a vote of 315 to 93 legislation to extend modern whistleblower protections to workers whose employers are engaged in oil and gas exploration, drilling, production, or cleanup on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Currently, individuals working on the OCS have no protection against retaliation by an employer for speaking up on hazardous conditions.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to a recent press release, denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, and threatens human health and the environment.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration announced Wednesday that Kansas City Chiefs’ running back Thomas Jones has become a spokesman for the agency’s annual “Stay Out-Stay Alive” public safety campaign, launched in 1999 to warn outdoor enthusiasts, especially children, about the dangers of playing on mine property, according to an MSHA press release.
OSHA has cited the U.S. Postal Service for six alleged willful violations of safety standards following an inspection at the White River Junction Processing and Distribution Center in White River Junction, Vt., according to an agency press release. The Postal Service faces a total of $420,000 in fines, chiefly for exposing workers to electrical hazards.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced in a recent press release the lineup of 2011 model year passenger vehicles that will receive new safety ratings under the agency’s revamped and updated 5-star safety ratings program.
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