According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 49 percent of injuries from hydraulic power presses and press brakes result in the amputation of the operator's hand or fingers. Other bodily injuries include strangulation from loose clothing, and severe lacerations caused by material movement.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) – the federal agency charged with developing new knowledge in the field of occupational safety and health and helping to transfer that knowledge into practice – is currently active in a number of areas, including:
Hazardous Materials Instructor Training is now available at no cost in a dozen states to help reduce transportation incidents involving undeclared hazardous materials.
More than one in every four vehicles being sold by used car giant CarMax are under recall for safety flaws, including some with potentially deadly defects, according to a survey by auto safety groups.
Three years of safety performance indicators and a detailed description of a company’s safety culture were just a few of the factors used to determine the winners of the annual safety awards presented by the Safety & Risk Management Council (SRMC) of the American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC).
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Occupational keynote speakers Larry Wilson and Tim Page-Bottorff discussed the future of workplace safety on Tuesday morning. They said it’s moving towards investing in the people in your organization and our experience with human factors will put you on the right path.
Positive interaction with employees requires real engagement, a focus on human performance, human error and embracing an integrated safety culture, Wilson said.
Several failures in close succession by a jetliner’s flight crew were the probable cause of Oct. 27, 2016, runway excursion at LaGuardia Airport, according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s final report issued Thursday.
Attendees at the NSC Congress & Expo Monday morning listened to NASCAR driver Kyle Petty discuss safety in driving as well as his personal life.
Petty spoke about deaths in the sport, as well as the death of his son, Adam, and said “NASCAR and the entire industry said we have to proactive; we have to hang up our game.
For the first time, NSC is hosting an Auto Safety Tech Zone on the Expo floor with Ford, Toyota, FCA US and General Motors. All four car manufacturers will display vehicles equipped with cutting edge safety technologies that are paving the way toward advanced driver systems.
