OSHA has cited Southern Perfection Fabrication Holdings Inc. with 15 serious safety and health violations, including exposing workers to combustible residues and flammable liquids in the spraying and power coating areas without adequate precautions to prevent fires and explosions.
OSHA has ordered Brush Creek-based Mark Alvis Inc., owner Mark Alvis and company dispatcher Jack Taylor to reinstate a former employee and pay him more than $180,000 in back pay, interest, and compensatory and punitive damages.
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is hailing a decision by Massachusetts to offer drivers of electric and hybrid vehicles special license plates, to easily identify them to first responders.
Investors and pension-holders should use their leverage to hold companies accountable for worker safety, according to a new report from the Committee on Worker's Capital (CWC).
A Wisconsin company has been placed in OSHA's Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP), after the death of a teenaged worker in a trench collapse revealed numerous safety hazards.
OSHA has renewed the Alliance with the Roadway Work Zone Safety and Health Partners aimed at protecting workers while working in roadway construction work zones.
In a rare show of approval for the Obama administration, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it's pleased with the president's recently issued executive order on international regulatory cooperation. The watchdog group Public Citizen, however, calls the order a "smokescreen" meant to appease big business.
Brookville, PA – April 27, 2012 – The U.S. glove industry grew by 16.5% in 2011, according to the International Glove Association’s (IGA) annual Market Survey.
When Harvard University friends Sheryl Sandberg and Andrew M. Cameron, M.D., Ph.D., met up at their 20th college reunion last spring, they got to talking.