Georgia-Pacific Corp. suspected of fraud in asbestos lawsuit
... asbestos, older buildings and ships still may have products that were made with the mineral. To protect workers, OSHA has created strict standards relating to handling material with asbestos and...
View ArticleScientists paid $6 million for secret asbestos research
... a buildup of tissue that can develop into severe breathing problems, mesothelioma or other diseases and cancers. OSHA states that while there are federal guidelines which establish how to properly...
View ArticleMeat Processing Plant Benefits from a Cold Room Floor Coating by...
... Administration [FDA], Americans with Disabilities Association [ADA], Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA], and United States Department of Agriculture [USDA]. Between product...
View ArticleHealth, safety, Willy the Pig top stories in 2013 in Garden City
... minimum required to enter building structures and was required to wait for help from area departments. The federal OSHA requirement is that interior structural firefighting procedures provide for...
View ArticleAmerica's longest war
"This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America," he proclaimed, speaking to Congress and the nation.
View ArticleOSHA Will Hold Live Web Chat on Its Proposed Silica Rule
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration will host a live Web chat to discuss the agency's proposed rule on occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica...
View ArticleThe NFL's Concussion Problem: 5 Ways to Address the Issue Before it's Too Late
... minimum level of damages. The LA Times estimates a workers' comp deal would cost NFL teams around $1 billion total. 3. OSHA The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, more commonly known as...
View ArticleWest Point CTC preparing kids for upcoming job opportunities
... and facilities . According to the MABC website, among those standards are stipulations that training plans include OSHA training applicable to commercial construction, programs provide leadership...
View ArticleUPDATED: 1 killed in King Hangar
... morning. A member of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is on site doing an investigation, according to OSHA spokesman Jeff Romeo. "We want to find out what happened and how it...
View ArticleNDA updates its demolition manual
... around the world and is the cornerstone of the NDA's extensive demolition safety program. We work closely with OSHA, which helps fund the manual's development, to correlate the recommended...
View ArticleOSHA Investigating Buckingham Building Collapse
Representatives from OSHA are looking into what caused a building to collapse on an unidentified construction worker Thursday morning.
View ArticleDershowitz: Christie Could Face Criminal Prosecution for Bridge-gate
... lanes being closed, yet not a peep out of him when a woman starting a Tea Party group was invaded by the FBI, ABT, EPA, OSHA and the IRS. Obama used the IRS and the FBI to shut down political...
View ArticleCIC and ISHM Enter Joint Endorsement Agreement
... safety managers who have a broad range of duties. CIC and ISHM's certifications complement each other. According to OSHA research and Province of Ontario studies conducted over a period of years,...
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View ArticleAftermath Of Chemical Spill Continues In Paulsboro
... chloride is 3000 ppm, so anyone who could smell the gas after the accident was being exposed to highly toxic levels. OSHA regulations limit employee exposure to no more than 1 ppm averaged over any...
View ArticleWorker advocates: Don't delay NY dairy inspections
... to begin random inspections of New York dairy farms in July. Seven members of Congress from upstate New York have asked OSHA to delay the inspections. They say the inspections could result in hefty...
View ArticleHundreds Of Thousands Still Without Water In W. Va.
... before it is safe to drink. "Federal authorities, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, began investigating how the foaming agent escaped from the Freedom Industries...
View ArticleMachine Safety: What are your 2014 New Year machine safety resolutions?
Will 2014 be another year of the same or do you have a list of New Year resolutions for machine safety? Here are three machine safety ideas on which to focus this year, based on key OSHA violations.
View ArticleSilica exposure may increases lung cancer risk
... Ward and study co-author, Kyle Steenland of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory said last August, OSHA proposed a new rule that would cut in half the amount of inhalable crystalline silica...
View ArticleDowntown Charleston a 'ghost town' as chemical spill takes toll on WVirginia...
... farm animals safe from exposure. Federal authorities, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, opened an investigation into Wednesday's spill. Just how much of the...
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