Zurla Trucking of Fort Myers has been ordered by OSHA to reinstate a truck driver discharged for calling attention to safety issues, according to an agency press release. The company is also to pay back wages plus interest and compensatory damages, and delete any adverse references related to the discharge from the employee's personnel file. Additionally, the company has been ordered to pay $125,000 in punitive damages.
More than 1 in 4 high school students and adults ages 18 to 34 engaged in a dangerous behavior known as binge drinking during the past month, according to the findings from a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a CDC press release states. The report shows that each year more than 33 million adults have reported binge drinking, defined as having four or more drinks for women and five or more drinks for men over a short period of time, usually a couple of hours. And the report said levels of binge drinking have not declined during the past 15 years
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration announced in a press release that it will hold public meetings in Arlington, Va., Sacramento, Calif., and Pittsburgh, Pa., to gather information about effective, comprehensive safety and health management programs at mines. The agency will use information gathered from these meetings to help develop a proposed rule for safety and health management programs for mines, which will enable miners and mine operators to be more proactive in their approach to health and safety matters.
In conjunction with Drive Safely Work Week, OSHA has announced an education campaign calling on employers to prevent work-related distracted driving, with a special focus on prohibiting texting while driving, according to an agency press release.
While everything else in this world seems to be getting more complicated, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) keeps on getting simpler, reports the October 2010 issue of the Harvard Health Letter.
OSHA has cited A. Bagnoli and Sons Inc., a water, sewer and utility excavation company located in Poland, Ohio, with four alleged willful and serious safety violations after one worker was killed and another seriously injured, an agency press release states. The incident occurred when part of a 17-foot deep by 65-foot long trench caved in on April 7, in Hudson Ohio, trapping the two workers for more than six hours.
Workplace musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are one of the most significant occupational safety and health problems in the U.S., according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Ergonomics Branch, according to a recent press release, is providing tips to help reduce MSDs at work and at home as part of October’s National Ergonomics Month.
OSHA has issued Gleason Construction Co. Inc. in Holland, Ohio, six citations for exposing workers to trench cave-ins hazards at two different excavation worksites, according to an agency press release. The citations carry total penalties of $135,800.
In keeping with President Obama’s vision to reduce greenhouse gases and increase fuel efficiency, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced in a recent press release that they will begin the process of developing tougher greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards for passenger cars and trucks built in model years 2017 through 2025. This will build on the success of the first phase of the national program covering cars from model years 2012-2016.
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