The Consumer Product Safety Commission and the United States Fire Administration are urging consumers to play it safe as winter weather blankets the United States. According to USFA, home fires spike in winter months. Cooking and home heating are the leading causes of residential building fires during the winter. The risk of fires also increases with the use of supplemental heating, such as space heaters. CPSC estimates that home heating was associated with an average of 33,300 fires and 180 fire deaths per year from 2005 to 2007.
Saying the problem of excessive occupational noise exposures “requires much more public outreach and many more resources than we had originally anticipated,” Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels says OSHA is going back to the drawing board.
Several organizations are working with TRANSCAER, the voluntary national program helping responders and communities prepare for hazmat transportation incidents, as it begins a yearlong training effort in Stockton, Calif.
In his latest message about the agency's work, Director Dr. John Howard said a final version of Asbestos and Other Elongated Mineral Particles: State of the Science and Roadmap for Research will come out "in the early weeks of 2011."
The European Chemicals Agency, ECHA, announced that 3,114,835 notifications of 24,529 substances for the Classification and Labelling Inventory, either hazardous or subject to REACH registration, were submitted by the midnight Jan. 3 deadline.
Beginning with the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City, the 21-minute film "tells the story of how and why we are safer at work today" and how the occupational safety, health, and environmental profession developed.
Time's running out to register and take part in the National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures, a two-day web forum presented by ATSDR that will take place Jan. 5-6.
The agency has finished a draft Current Intelligence Bulletin containing an assessment of the toxicological data and recommendations for safe handling of the materials.
You can leverage MSDS data and tools to create greener, safer products and workplaces.
Semiannual agendas published Monday in the Federal Register are later than usual. Those from the Labor Department's units are sparse.
The new enforcement policy is not yet in effect, but some groups are attacking it as an expensive, unnecessary change. The National Hearing Conservation Association supports it, however.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association has opened registration for the 2011 American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exposition. The conference, scheduled May 14-19, will take place in Portland, Ore. and will include the latest in industrial hygiene technology, methodology, and innovation.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association, in collaboration with American National Standards Institute, has released two new fundamental consensus standards which promote conformity among assessment systems. As an ANSI member and accredited standards developer, AIHA serves as the secretariat for three ANSI committees that develop occupational safety and health related standards.
Evaluating the equipment, engineering controls, and grinding methods currently used for manual concrete surface grinding, a study published in JOEH says current methods to control dust aren't sufficiently protective.
The deadline to comment on the 582-page document is April 4, 2011, and government safety agencies are urging employers and workers to participate as Australia moves toward harmonized regulations.
The $110 million transaction is expected to close this month, pending shareholders' and regulatory approvals, according to the companies.
The proposal published by the Federal Railroad Administration is unworkable as written because it would require performance that currently approved escape respirators aren't tested for, ISEA and others said in their comments.
Individuals and the government bear about all of the costs, according to the study.
One new final toxicological profile for chlorine and six updated ones of priority hazardous substances are in this new set.
Good housekeeping helps you comply with seven OSHA regulations.