As part of Alcohol Awareness Month, the American Psychology Association has released the following interview with Vivian B. Faden, PhD, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Office of Science Policy and Communications (OSPC) and associate director of Behavioral Research, in Bethesda, Md.
Following several recent fatal pipeline accidents, including one that killed five people in Allentown, PA, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood called upon U.S. pipeline owners and operators to conduct a comprehensive review of their oil and gas pipelines to identify areas of high risk and accelerate critical repair and replacement work.
The recent flurry of highly publicized cases of young athletes dying suddenly on the playing field has prompted Johns Hopkins Children’s Center cardiologists to discuss the medical significance of a child’s sudden death for the rest of the family.
In a letter sent to U.S. hospitals last week, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and The Joint Commission reminded hospital and health care employers that hazardous drugs such as antineoplastic drugs can pose serious job-related health risks to workers if proper precautions are not used in handling the drugs.
Cal-OSHA’s new chief, Ellen Widess, has a daunting task ahead of her: to review the agency’s operations and identify opportunities for streamlining it.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Wednesday announced the availability of an online service that enables mine operators, miners and others to monitor a mining operation to determine if it could be subject to a potential pattern of violations.
Of the more than 7,500 state legislative measures currently in various stages of development, approximately 250 were important enough to warrant attention from the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), according to its director of government affairs, Aaron Trippler.
With Senate Republicans vowing to block any legislation not related to federal spending, OSHA reforms won’t get much attention any time soon – or will they?
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