Said President Obama: "Health care reform is about every family’s health and the health of our economy. And if there’s anyone who understands the urgency of meeting this challenge in a personal and powerful way, it’s the woman who will become our nation’s next Surgeon General, Doctor Regina Benjamin. I look forward working with her in the months and years ahead."
Telling Americans to “do your part for airline safety and passenger sanity,” the AFL-CIO’s union of flight attendants is directing the public to send their senators a message urging the U.S. Senate to maintain the ban on in-flight cell phone use.
Adult obesity rates increased in 23 states and did not decrease in a single state in the past year, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America 2009, a report released by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
OSHA will hold a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH) July 15, 2009, to discuss topics including the agency's recordkeeping initiative and ethics rules.
EPA has identified the hardrock mining industry as its priority for developing financial assurance requirements. Financial assurance requirements help ensure that owners and operators of these facilities, not taxpayers, foot the bill for environmental cleanup. These requirements will be developed under section 108(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, commonly called “Superfund.” EPA plans to propose the rule by spring of 2011. The agency will publish a notice of this priority in the Federal Register, which is the first step toward developing the requirements.
Here were the highlights of Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis’s speech at the opening session of the annual meeting of the American Society of Safety Engineers, held two weeks ago today in San Antonio:
OSHA has announced the publication of a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register to approve a new Illinois state public employee protection plan.
For the fourth consecutive year, Kathy A. Seabrook, CMIOSH (U.K.), CSP (U.S.) presented an annual “Global Safety and Health Briefing” at the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Annual Professional Development Conference, held this year in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Close to 2,000 attendees of the 48th annual American Society of Safety Engineers' (ASSE) Professional Development Conference (PDC) and Exposition gathered to hear corporate executives discuss why safety and health is key for their company’s success at the “Executive Summit.” Their remarks were described in a press release issued by ASSE.
OMB Watch has published a report that explores the impacts of secrecy labeling practices within the federal government. The report, Controlled Unclassified Information: Recommendations for Information Control Reform,shines a light on how government withholds unclassified information from the American people and offers recommendations on how to balance the need to protect sensitive materials with the duty to disclose information to the public.
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