In its latest issue, FORTUNE reveals its 12th annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, 73 of which are still hiring, according to a recent press release.
On the day President Obama was inaugurated, American Industrial Hygiene Association President Lindsay E. Booher, CIH, CSP sent the following letter of support to the new White House occupant:
Confirmed last week by the Senate, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson officially took over the agency’s reins yesterday. In a memo to EPA employees issued last Friday, Jackson outlined her top priorities:
Citing a fatal explosion in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 2006, U.S. Chemical Safety Board Chairman John Bresland today issued a new video safety message urging the state to move forward promptly with recommendations to extend OSHA coverage to all its public workers.
U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigators will return today to the Silver Eagle refinery in Woods Cross, Utah, to continue looking for the causes of the January 12 fire that seriously burned four workers.
Two sources with numerous contacts in Washington OSHA circles told ISHN this week that the AFL-CIO’s long-time Director of Safety and Health, Margaret “Peg” Seminario, has the inside track on the OSHA chief job if she wants it.
OSHA has cited the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics for nine alleged serious safety violations and proposed $56,700 in fines against the laboratory as a result of an Aug. 6, 2008, accident that seriously injured an employee.
OSHA is proposing $119,000 in penalties against WDG Construction Inc. for seven safety violations that exposed their employees to possible injury or death at two of its construction sites.
A new alliance to help students in alternative high schools in Massachusetts reduce and prevent their exposure to on-the-job hazards has been formed by OSHA and the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, along with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) and the Division of Occupational Safety and the Department of Industrial Accidents of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.
Cold weather car maintenance can lead to poison exposures from a number of common auto products, warns the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) in a recent press release. Windshield cleaner fluid and antifreeze both contain substances that can be deadly if ingested and pose an increased risk for children and pets.
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