The safety of airport traffic control tower personnel is the focus of a new OSHA inspection targeting program titled “Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Traffic Control Tower Monitoring Program,” which monitors how workers clear a control tower in case of fire and other emergencies. The inspection targeting program, conducted by OSHA, examines the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) air traffic control towers’ provision of safe means of egress, or exit, for workers at FAA–owned and –operated towers.
In a comment to the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) on its chemical release reporting rulemaking, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), representing 32,000 occupational safety, health and environmental professional members, urged CSB to adopt a rulemaking approach that would avoid adding one more chemical incident reporting requirement when CSB is already effective in obtaining timely chemical incident information, when layers of chemical incident reporting requirements already exist, and when reporting comes at a time when a site supervision team is working to mitigate the impact of an emergency, according to an ASSE press statement.
President Obama's nominee to head OSHA, David Michaels, “should be grilled by the U.S. Senate about his links to trial lawyers and other anti-science activist groups,” according to a press statement from the blog JunkScience.com.
Thirty-five percent of drivers said they feel less safe than they did five years ago, according to the second-annual 2009 Traffic Safety Culture Index released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Overall, the majority of American motorists report that they feel no safer now than they did five years ago.
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) President C. Christopher Patton, CSP, sent the following letter to the New York Times regarding a Times article alleging that the U.S. Departmet of Transportation may have suppressed information in 2003 on the dangers of distracted driving.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson released the following statement in reaction to a new report from
McKinsey & Company that outlines opportunities for consumers, businesses and other institutions to save nearly $1.3 trillion in energy costs by 2020.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video depicting how accumulations of combustible dust at worksites can provide the fuel for devastating explosions that kill and maim workers, shut down plants, and harm local economies.
President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate David Michaels as Assistant Secretary for OSHA, Department of Labor, according to a Whitehouse press statement released yesterday.
Facilities that could potentially release highly hazardous chemicals resulting in toxic fire or explosion hazards are the focus of a national emphasis program (NEP) developed by OSHA.
OSHA announced earlier this month it will address problems indentified in its Voluntary Protection Programs in response to a new Government Accountability Office report, "OSHA's Voluntary Protection Programs: Improved Oversight and Controls Would Better Ensure Program Quality."
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