On Monday, OSHA published a minor amendment in the Federal Register to the compliance date provision of its hexavalent chromium standard for general industry.
Office workers may not realize that minor routine office actions add up, but according to one recent study two-thirds of U.S. office workers (66 percent) said they experience some physical problems as a result of job-related stress or exertion.
Safety experts for BP PLC warned their bosses of the potential for a "major site incident" more than two years before an explosion at the company's Texas City refinery killed 15 people and injured another 170, according to a broadcast report.
A consulting firm that is being investigated in a fatal tunnel collapse in Boston was ordered to stop helping inspect repairs, shortly after news reports revealed that the state had hired it for the job.
In a letter addressed to Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, Sens. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) criticized the current draft regulations on mine safety proposed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration as too weak to protect the nation’s miners, and urged MSHA to strengthen these rules.
A survey of more than 1,000 employers by United Benefit Advisors, an alliance of 141 U.S. benefit firms, suggests that health and wellness programs are proving valuable, according to a report by Business & Legal Reports (BLR).
The rate of workplace injuries and illnesses in private industry declined in 2005 for the third consecutive year, the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday.
A federal judge refused to toss out claims by thousands of emergency workers who sued New York City and about 150 private contractors after the workers were sickened by dust at the World Trade Center site.
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