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The Safety Equipment Institute is now offering certification of fall protection equipment.

OSHA’s steel erection standard will go into effect January 18, 2002.

Labor Secretary Elaine Chao on July 16th opened the first of three public forums exploring ways to reduce ergonomics injuries.

The Safety Equipment Institute now offering certification of fall protection equipment.

Labor Secretary Elaine Chao opened the first of three public forums exploring ways to reduce ergonomics injuries.

OSHA's steel erection standard to take effect January 18, 2002.

President Bush, attacked by environmentalists for a string of perceived anti-green slights, has come out in support of legislation that would promote the Environmental Protection Agency to cabinet status, and make EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman a Cabinet secretary.

Get ready for the war of words over workplace ergonomics to flame up again when the Labor Department holds its first of three public forums on how to address ergo-related injuries July 16 and 17 at George Mason University in Arlington, Va.

The Refractory Ceramic Fibers Coalition and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists won't be going to court over the ACGIH's threshold limit value for refractory ceramic fibers.

Heart attacks continued to be the leading cause of on-duty deaths to U.S. firefighters in 2000, according to the National Fire Protection Association.