The Northeast's multi-species groundfish trawling had the highest fatality rate of all during 2005-2014 at 30 per 10,000 FTEs.
Attendees at VPPPA's annual national conference got their first look at the exhibit floor during an Aug. 29 reception inside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in downtown New Orleans.
Carthage Specialty Paperboard faces $357,445 in penalties for more than 60 safety and health violations.
OSHA tells you what to do; NFPA 350 tells you how to do it by providing supporting information on how to identify hazards, perform gas monitoring, control hazards, and ventilate.
The NSC Congress & Expo is sure to be a week full of education and innovation in the safety and health market, so be ready to start your engines come September.
"Despite its lengthy OSHA history, Aluminum Shapes still does not comply with federal safety and health standards," said Paula Dixon-Roderick, director of OSHA's Marlton Area Office. "These hazards leave workers vulnerable to the risk of serious injury and possible death."
If your best friend, whom you’ve known for years, suddenly fell over in a confined space, how would you respond? Would you rush in to save him or her?
OSHA released a statement highlighting the dangers of excavation work after citing a Missouri plumbing contractor.
This could be the most consequential annual conference for the society in many years.
The money is part of the Brookwood-Sago grant program.
A worker entered a drainage shaft last fall to clean out mud and debris. He stood inside a bucket attached to a mini crawler crane with no personal fall protection. After descending 10 feet into the shaft, the worker lost consciousness due to the oxygen-deficient atmosphere, fell approximately 40 feet, and drowned in a foot of water at the bottom.
The year's biggest U.S industrial hygiene show, AIHce EXP docks in the Emerald City next month.
“Substantial new evidence” lead to the change.
The agency says inadequate training and unsafe working conditions led to a fatality
Atlantic Drain Service Co. Inc. has been cited for 18 violations.
The campaign calls on employers to review their safety and health programs that protect workers.
The screenings are part of the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP).
The Enhanced Video Analysis of Dust Exposures (EVADE) offers ways to reveal hazards on the job.
The agency has proposed delaying the effective date from March 21, 2017, to May 20, 2017.
Fatal exposures to electricity were down in 2015, but fatalities due to exposure to temperature extremes rose, while occupational deaths from nonmedical use of drugs or alcohol, unintentional overdose, increased 45 percent in 2015 to 165, and there were 136 workers who died in incidents associated with confined spaces in 2015.