The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) is expressing “deep frustration” over President Obama’s decision to delay a new National Air Quality Standard for ground level ozone.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced that it has allocated $8,441,000 in health and safety training grants for fiscal year 2011.
An OSHA investigation undertaken after a maintenance employee at Anchor Hocking in Lancaster, Ohio suffered an amputation found that workers had not been trained in recommended “lockout/tagout” procedures for isolating the energy sources of machines to prevent their accidental operation.
OSHA has issued a directive that establishes procedures for how the agency’s field staff will respond to and investigate complaints of workplace violence. Enforcement Procedures for Investigating or Inspecting Incidents of Workplace Violence gives special attention to industries considered vulnerable to workplace violence such as healthcare, social service settings and late-night retail establishments.
Despite sending letters about safe grain handling procedures to 13,000 grain elevator operators in 2010 and 2011, OSHA seems to be having trouble getting the word out to grain operators.
Here are responses we received to the blog on former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s management style and Apple’s corporate culture, both which fly in the face of calls for empathetic leaders and empowering cultures put forth in recent years by numerous safety and health organizational behavior consultants…
Infectious disease and disaster preparedness experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine say the premise of a new Hollywood movie should serve as a reminder that the United States needs to be prepared in case a fast-spreading deadly virus causes a serious national emergency.
No benefits, though, if your reasons are selfish ones
September 8, 2011
People who volunteer may live longer than those who don’t, as long as their reasons for volunteering are to help others rather than themselves, suggests new research published by the American Psychological Association.
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