From the parking area of Gates Pass, a hilly area aptly called the Tucson Mountains just east of Tucson, Arizona, dotted with thousands of saguaro cacti, a hike up to a ridgeline about a half-mile away looks like a gradual slope, certainly doable.
The FAA and the NTSB are both investigating a March 27 incident over Florida, when an air traffic controller asked a passenger aircraft to veer off course and look in the cockpit of another plane – one that had been out of contact.
A company that provides meat to the fast food industry exposed its workers to the potential release of anhydrous ammonia, according to Dean Ikeda, OSHA regional administrator in Seattle
OSHA announced yesterday that it is seeking applications from organizations to provide 10- or 30-hour online Outreach Training Program courses in the construction, general and maritime industries.
While ergonomics remains a hot occupations safety topic nationally, at least one state has passed a bill preventing state-level regulators from issuing a workplace ergonomic standard.
People who have high blood pressure readings at the doctor’s office and normal readings at home may have “white coat” hypertension, according to a new study reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association
Staff attorneys recently hired in the Philadelphia, Atlanta and Denver Regional Offices of the Solicitor have made “tremendous progress” in reducing a backlog of contested cases pending before the Mine Safety and Health Review, according to the Department of Labor (DOL).
The U.S. Department of Labor has reached an agreement with Shawnee-based Modern Oil Co. Inc., doing business as Kwick Stop Convenience Stores, and Sparkman Brothers Inc., resolving a lawsuit filed by the department alleging that the company illegally terminated a cashier because of a safety complaint made to the supervisor and to the department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
A judge last week upheld OSHA citations and penalties against Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., finding that the management of a Wal-Mart store in Valley Stream, N.Y. failed to provide adequate crowd control during a sale, resulting in a worker being trampled to death by shoppers in 2008.
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