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OSHA has not been able to get anywhere with a standard outlining safety and health program requirements, and now a voluntary committee is taking up the cause.

Overtime and shift practices are becoming more visible job safety issues in this age of lean and mean, high-performance business operations.

This manual helps companies deliver refresher safety training quickly and conveniently by providing 75 five-minute safety talks covering 50 key workplace safety topics, including hazard communication and lockout/tagout. J. J.

Washington’s OSHA watchers were buzzing in late April over signals that the wait for the agency’s new chief might soon be over.

Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will likely shape OSHA’s direction on many fronts during the Bush years in Washington.

Road construction contractors at a focus group sponsored by the International Safety Equipment Association laughed when asked if laborers in their organizations regularly used personal protective equipment.

Changes to OSHA’s bloodborne pathogens standard went into effect April 18th.

Maybe time does heal some wounds.

Here are the top ten injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work in 1999.

The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) wants Washington to get to work on a new ergonomics standard.