Home » Topics » Today's Safety News

Today's Safety News
RSS

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.

No lessons learned from first amputation; second follows a week later

The company had been cited by OSHA for 47 violations since 1988

July 14, 2011

Two workers at one company working at two separate press brakes suffered amputations eight days apart last January – resulting in fines and membership in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program for T & D Metal Products LLC of Watseka, IL.

Bucket lift dispute turns costly for Georgia manufacturer (7/14)

July 14, 2011

An employee who was fired after raising concerns about the proper use of a bucket lift will receive back wages with interest, thanks to a settlement reached by the U.S. Department of Labor and the Blue Bird Corp., a Georgia-based school bus manufacturer.

Like déjà vu all over again for MA contractor (7/14)

“An unguarded excavation is only seconds away from becoming a grave”

July 14, 2011

A Massachusetts contractor with a long history of violating workplace safety standards faces a total of $354,000 in new proposed fines from OSHA, chiefly for exposing its employees to cave-in hazards at work sites in Cambridge and Framingham.

Study reviews surveillance of worker beryllium exposure (7/14)

July 14, 2011

Although the incidence of chronic beryllium disease (CBD) is decreasing, new immunological tests, particularly the beryllium lymphocyte proliferation test (BeLPT), are detecting emerging cases of subclinical disease and beryllium sensitization, according to a new report from the U.K. Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

What’s on OSHA’s drawing board? (7/14)

July 14, 2011

On July 7, 2011, the Department of Labor's Spring 2011 Semiannual Regulatory Agenda was published in the Federal Register at 76 FR 40086, writes James Nash in a post on the Mercer (formerly ORC) EHS consultancy website.

Lead exposure drops among U.S. workers (7/7)

July 12, 2011

The number of adult workers with elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) in the U.S. declined from 1994 to 2009, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study published in last week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.