Said OSHA deputy Jordan Barab at a speech last month: “Specifically, by scaling back our spending on the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) and Alliances, OSHA will redirect compliance safety and health officer time previously spent on these compliance-assistance activities to inspections.
“I wonder how many people here saw or heard about a couple of recent opinion polls - one conducted by ABC News and the Washington Post, and the other by CNN/Opinion Research?” asked OSHA deputy Jordan Barab at a speech last month in New Jersey.
Jordan Barab, deputy assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health riffed on OSHA’s theme as the “new sheriff in town” at the New Jersey Occupational Safety and Health Education Program (OSHEP) Conference held in East Brunswick, New Jersey
Wednesday, February 24, 2010.
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and other business groups have filed a petition in federal appeals court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from stationary sources through the Clean Air Act. Joining the NAM on the petition are the American Petroleum Institute (API), the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA), the National Association of Home Builders, the Corn Refiners Association, the Brick Industry Association, the Western States Petroleum Association, and the National Oilseed Processors Association.
The contradiction that showed U.S. employment and unemployment both going up in January is one of several complex aspects of the labor market's road from recession to recovery, The Conference Board reports.
Tomorrow’s meeting — “OSHA listens” — an exercise in Obama administration open, “transparent” government to be held at the Department of Labor building in Washington has attracted an all-star lineup of job safety and health experts.
The future ISO 26000 standard giving guidance on social responsibility has just passed another important development stage with confirmation that support by ISO’s national members and by participating liaison organizations is strong enough for it to be progressed to a Final Draft International Standard (FDIS), according to a press release. This is the final stage in the development of an ISO standard before it is published as a fully fledged ISO International Standard.
OSHA has proposed $136,000 in fines against William A. Berry & Son Inc., a Danvers, Mass., construction contractor, for 19 alleged violations of workplace health and safety standards while removing asbestos-containing material at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Mass., last September, an OSHA press release states.
The U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin today announced a collaboration with Microsoft HealthVault that will provide new features and expand access to My Family Health Portrait, a free Internet-based resource, according to a recent press release.
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