They can be viewed beginning at 8:30 a.m. EDT both July 12 and July 13. Taking place in Cincinnati, the 7th Symposium will showcase excellence in OSH research and how it may be applied to prevent injuries and illnesses.
Britain's Health and Safety Executive prosecuted two companies and secured guilty pleas July 4 in connection with the deaths in May 2009.
Four students are receiving $5,000 scholarships through the 25th annual Industrial Hygiene Scholarship Program from 3M's Occupational Health & Environmental Safety Division.
Four willful violations, with proposed fines of $161,700, were cited for two instances of allegedly failing to provide a respirator to protect workers exposed to total dust in the production facility.
OSHA cited Black Mag LLC in October 2010 for more than 50 willful, egregious, and serious violations of safety standards in connection with a May 14, 2010, explosion at the company's Colebrook, N.H., facility in which two employees died while manufacturing a gunpowder substitute.
Coal mines were issued 339 citations, 12 orders, and two safeguards, while metal/nonmetal operations were issued 62 citations and 13 orders in May.
Those intending to take the CIH exam may have reason to join authors Allan K. Fleeger and Dean R. Lillquist on July 19 when they discuss the IH Reference and Study Guide, 3rd Edition.
The rule requires mine operators to maintain the percentage of incombustible content of the combined coal dust, rock dust, and other dust at 80 percent in all accessible areas of underground bituminous coal mines.
"This tragedy could have been prevented," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Dr. David Michaels. "It is imperative that employers take steps to eliminate hazards and provide a safe working environment."
"Methylene chloride exposure can have very serious health effects, such as cancer and cardiac distress," said Paula Dixon-Roderick, director of OSHA's area office in Marlton, N.J.
From 2000−2009, 350 workers died in trenching or excavation cave-ins—an av¬erage of 35 fatalities per year.
The Oct. 23-28 executive-led mission will include individual and government meetings to boost exports to an industry on which China will spend billions of dollars in the next five years to improve safety, according to the department.
The owner and manager of a California condominium complex were sentenced for conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act’s asbestos work practice standards during the renovation of a 204-unit apartment building in Winnetka, Calif., in 2006 – work that caused asbestos to be released into the complex and the surrounding community.
The memorandum of understanding with the Canadian Council of Occupational Hygiene/Conseil Canadien d’Hygiene du Travail will bring about joint educational programming, including at the AIHce conferences.
Welding fume exposure tends to be highly variable due to several exposure factors.
Only one factor was found to be a consistent predictor of good ear plug fit: one-on-one training.
AIHA President-elect Elizabeth Pullen, CIH, said the goal of AIHA and ACGIH is to accrue at least 5,000 signatures from attendees during this week's event.
For instance, IH consultants will be happy to know about the results of SKC Inc. research showing alternative air sampling bags work well.
The June 16-21 event in Indianapolis takes place two weeks later ASSE's June 3-6 conference in Denver.
At the work site, welding equipment ignited flammable gases and caused a flash fire resulting in second and third degree burns to the face and head of the welder working inside the steel pipeline.