A campaign warning tradespeople about the dangers of asbestos has won a prestigious international award, according to a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) press release. The HSE’s “hidden killer” campaign was top in the health category of the European Excellence Awards, held in Vienna, which honor outstanding achievements in public relations.
Kathy Seabrook, owner of the consultancy Global Solutions, Inc. and Global Solutions International Ltd. (www.globalehs.com) tells ISHNshe represented the American Society of Safety Engineers, as Sustainability & Safety Professional Chair, at the NIOSH Green Jobs: Making Green Jobs Safe Workshop held this week. Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health (aka the OSHA boss) Dr. David Michaels, all of five days into his new job replacing acting OSHA chief Jordan Barab, provided the closing presentation for the workshop.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has announced a multifaceted, comprehensive strategy to end new cases of black lung among the nation's coal miners.
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) B101 committee on Slip, Trip and Fall Prevention has released the nation's first-ever, floor safety standard designed to prevent pedestrian slips and falls, according to a press statement from the National Floor Safety Institute.
As a result of negotiations with EPA, several companies announced yesterday they will undertake a three-year phaseout of decabromodiphenyl ether (DecaBDE), a persistent and toxic chemical that has been used as a flame retardant in consumer and other products.
Preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) shows that mine fatalities in 2008 fell to an all-time low recording a 31 percent drop from 2007. Metal/nonmetal mines recorded the lowest level of fatalities in that sector of mining since statistics were first recorded in 1910, and the fatality level in coal mines was the lowest recorded number since 2005.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed a $4 million civil penalty for Spitfire Aviation Services, LLC, of Fayetteville, Ark., for numerous violations of the Federal Aviation Regulations.
OSHA is proposing penalties against four contractors for alleged safety violations following a scaffolding accident that killed three workers at the 21 Rio construction site near downtown Austin.
OSHA has cited Farmers Union Coop Supply Co. of Stanton, Neb., with one alleged willful and nine alleged serious violations of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act after a worker suffocated from lack of oxygen in the boot pit of a concrete grain elevator June 19.
OSHA has begun publicizing weekly summaries of fatalities and catastrophes resulting in the hospitalization of three or more workers. Employers must report these incidents to OSHA within eight hours. The summaries below (for the week of November 23-27, the most recently posted information) include only preliminary information, as reported to OSHA area offices or to states which operate OSHA-approved state plans. OSHA investigates all work-related fatalities and catastrophes. OSHA will link the data on its summary chart to the inspection case file, also on the OSHA public website.
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