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Children’s poster contest highlights bus, truck safety

Drivers should always ‘Be Ready. Be Buckled.’

June 29, 2016

U.S. Transportation Deputy Secretary Victor Mendez and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Deputy Administrator Daphne Jefferson today awarded top honors in the 2016 “Be Ready. Be Buckled.” student art contest to 4th grader Andy Chen and 2nd grader Jessica Hong, both of East Brunswick, N.J., during a ceremony at the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The Dig: Investigating the safety of the water you drink

The government has information about your drinking water. It isn’t always accurate.

T. Christian Miller

June 29, 2016

Today, The Dig dives into water. Pun totally intended. I’ve received a lot of questions about applying investigative reporting techniques to figuring out whether your water is safe — the stuff in your taps, the stuff in your rivers, the stuff at the beach. Flint, Michigan, has made us all want to be water sleuths.

‘Racist' pool safety poster angers parents

June 29, 2016

An American Red Cross Hospital has issued an apology for a poster about swim safety guidelines for children that shows white children being safe and African-American and Latino children breaking safety rules.

XTO Energy agrees to restore areas damaged by fracking

June 28, 2016

The EPA and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that XTO Energy, Inc. (XTO), a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and the nation’s largest holder of natural gas reserves, will spend an estimated $3 million to restore eight sites damaged by unauthorized discharges of fill material into streams and wetlands in connection with hydraulic fracturing operations.

OSHA sends personnel to hard-hit West Virginia

June 28, 2016

OSHA is deploying assets to flood-impacted West Virginia counties to ensure employers, workers and others engaged in cleanup efforts avoid potential hazards and take steps to protect themselves.

Dollar General fails its 56th safety inspection

Locked emergency exits found at Pa. store

June 28, 2016

Despite a long history of violations, OSHA finds that Dollar General continues to expose its workers to safety hazards.

Pipeline safety bill passes with bipartisan support

June 28, 2016

The pipeline safety act signed by President Obama last week after being unanimously passed in both the House and Senate gives the secretary of Transportation the power to quickly issue emergency orders for the pipeline industry if an incident exposes a widespread problem.

Men get better cardiac care than women

-And women are less likely to survive a cardiac arrest

June 28, 2016

Women who have a cardiac arrest are less likely than men to receive potentially life-saving procedures such as angiography to look for blocked coronary arteries or angioplasty to open them, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

Worker’s hand caught in bakery conveyer belt

Wegman’s faces $140K fine over injury

June 27, 2016

A simple task for an employee at Wegmans Food Market Inc.’s commercial bakery in Rochester instead resulted in a needless and severe injury. As the worker cleaned an operating conveyor belt and roller on Dec. 16, 2015, her hand was caught between the belt and the roller and the machine pulled it in.

A DOL Blog post

The future of work: Diving into the data

June 27, 2016

The on-demand or “gig” economy gets a lot of buzz. And for good reason: It’s an exciting, tech-driven, entrepreneurial development that has tapped into significant consumer demand. It offers new ways for people to monetize their existing assets − their car, their extra bedroom − and earn a living.