OSHA fined an Illinois industrial cleaning company after a worker was killed falling from his ladder.
The recipient of the association's William Steiger Memorial Award is a familiar name: Dr. David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, the assistant U.S. secretary of labor for OSHA. He'll receive it May 19 during ACGIH's membership reception and annual meeting.
This year’s CareerAdvantage development fair features sessions designed to help those in the occupational and environmental health and safety (OEHS) field advance their current careers and find and maintain positions in the industry.
Members' feedback contributed to the navigation, search, and mobile-friendly access improvements that will be visible on May 6.
It's time to talk health and safety in Montreal at the 73rd AIHce event.
Automated safety intelligence-gathering systems are helping industrial hygienists and safety managers work smarter while saving dollars to the company's bottom line.
Asbestos, lead paint, and an approaching hurricane are some of the challenges overcome during a remediation project at a Virginia military base.
For the first time, the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data for 2011 include data on fatal injuries involving contractors.
The agency's new Current Intelligence Bulletin recommends that exposures to carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers be kept below the recommended exposure limit of 1 μg/m3 of respirable elemental carbon as an eight-hour TWA.
"RAE Systems' geographic, manufacturing, and distribution footprint, especially in high-growth countries like China, will help to make our already strong gas detection portfolio an even greater global franchise in a very good industry," said Mark Levy, president and CEO of Honeywell Life Safety.
Safety professionals are finding that the more time they spend with the revised standard looking at training, the more questions they have about GHS adoption in general.
This will make the agency's most popular document a true pocket guide, one commenter observed. NIOSH officials want feedback from users to help them decide how to organize the content.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association will conduct another member survey soon about members' needs and satisfaction.
Attendees of the May 18-23 conference will have the opportunity to visit the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium, a LEED-certified building described by the executive director of the surrounding Space for Life as "the city's foremost new tourist and architectural attraction."
Today's gas detection is not as prehistoric as it sometimes may seem to be. The technology of gas detection is improving, and there are new technologies that will bring new capabilities in the not-so-distant future.
Wireless instruments and data aggregation systems offer additional advantages for IAQ monitoring.
After a September 2012 investigation, Brenntag Northeast Inc. received more than $64,000 worth of violations.
The virus in the missing vial is Guanarito, and the UTMB president's letter claims it represents "no appreciable public health risk."
The new white paper from the AIHA Construction Committee's Silica Competent Person Subgroup will help construction companies use the approach OSHA recommends.
Health care and human factors are in the spotlight in March and April, with AIHce 2013 and Safety 2013 following close behind.