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Extreme heat endangers workers, warns Solis (7/20)

July 21, 2011

With much of the nation sweltering under record high temperatures, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis reminded employers that outdoor workers are vulnerable to heat-related illnesses, including heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

ASSE backs CSB’s rebuke of Florida for failing to adopt recommendations (7/21)

July 21, 2011

The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) has publicly expressed its agreement with the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) that Florida’s failure to adopt worker safeguards in the wake of a deadly methanol fire and explosion is “unacceptable.”

Angry over heads up, MSHA takes CAM Mining to court (7/19)

Miners may have been smoking underground

July 19, 2011

After someone gave a foreman at CAM Mining LLC’s Mine No. 28 in Kentucky advance notice of an inspection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) took the company to court and got an order prohibiting it from doing so again in the future.

Pets are good for your mental health, says new study

Owning a dog increases self-esteem

July 19, 2011

Pet owners are happier, healthier and better adjusted than non-pet owners, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

Obama administration closes unsafe trucking companies at brisk pace (7/19)

“Reincarnated” carriers remain a concern

July 19, 2011

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced today that in the last two years, the Obama Administration has issued as many imminent hazard orders placing unsafe bus and truck companies out of service as in the previous 10 years combined.

NIOSH says lessons from Deepwater will help with future disasters (7/18)

July 18, 2011

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) played a key role in monitoring and protecting the health of workers responding to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and Gulf of Mexico oil spill ...

AIHA wants “minor changes” in NIOSH IEQ draft (7/18)

July 18, 2011

The American Industrial Hygiene Association® (AIHA) is recommending that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) make some corrections in on the draft alert entitled “Preventing Occupational Respiratory Disease From Dampness in Office Buildings, Schools, and Other Nonindustrial Buildings,” as was published in the Federal Register on May 18, 2011, Volume 76, No. 96, Page 28789.

Despite deadly blast, Florida fails to enact CSB recommendations on public worker safety (7/18)

State earns first “Unacceptable Response” in CSB history

July 18, 2011

Florida’s failure to adopt recommendations to provide state and municipal public workers with the same workplace protections as their private sector counterparts has been labeled an “Unacceptable Response” by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), which made the recommendations.

Boeing VP honored as a woman making a difference (7/18)

July 18, 2011

Mary Armstrong, vice president of Environment, Health and Safety for Boeing, has been named one of the “100 Women, Making a Difference in Safety” by the American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Women in Safety Engineering (WISE) Common Interest Group.

High sodium, low potassium diet doubles risk of heart attack

Americans must change diet to lower risk

July 18, 2011

Americans who eat a diet high in sodium and low in potassium have a 50 percent increased risk of death from any cause, and about twice the risk of death from heart attacks, according to a study published last week in the Archives of Internal Medicine.