Not all OSHA inspections result in citations and fines. An oil refinery in North Dakota and a paper company in Missouri are being praised by the agency for their exemplary safety and health programs.
A lead recycling and manufacturing company’s “blatant disregard” for OSHA’s lead standard has netted it a whopping 32 safety and health violations and a total of $307,200 in proposed penalties.
OSHA has cited Durasol Corp. for 13 alleged serious violations of workplace health and safety standards at its Amesbury, Mass., manufacturing plant. The manufacturer of hard gum erasers faces a total of $43,800 in proposed fines.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is joining forces with the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) in a wide-ranging effort to protect workers and promote best practices.
In the first of what will be several speeches commemorating OSHA’s 40th anniversary, Dr. David Michaels described OSHA as a small agency that has made big progress, despite being under attack “since the day it was born.”
A new study in this months's Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine gets right to the heart of the health care cost problem for employers: workers with cardiac problems are a major source of direct and indirect health care costs.
Mistakes, the override of a safety feature and a premature startup lead to the August 28, 2008 blast at a Bayer CropScience pesticide manufacturing unit that killed two workers and injured eight others, according to the final report released today by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB).
The challenges facing healthcare risk managers in the new year are as diverse as the tasks the perform, according to a survey by the ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improved patient care.
The FAA announced today that in 2010, nationwide reports of lasers pointed at airplanes almost doubled from the previous year to more than 2,800. This is the highest number of laser events recorded since the FAA began keeping track in 2005.
Removing the walls of a fourth floor elevator shaft without fall protection exposed workers at a Binghamton, NY site to a 40-foot fall, according to OSHA inspectors, who issued MJ Scoville Inc. nine willfull and serious violations.
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