The European Union’s European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has issued a report estimating that about 74,000 work-related deaths may be linked to hazardous substances at work each year in the EU – about 10 times more than workplace accidents.
Finally, Congress has passed a 2009 budget that was supposed to have taken effect last October 1, according to the American Industrial Hygiene Association. According to AIHA’s analysis, OSHA received an increase in overall dollars, with much of this coming in the form of enforcement appropriations.
This week (April 6-12), the American Public Health Association (APHA) is celebrating National Public Health Week (NPHW) 2009, with the theme of Building the Foundation for a Healthy America, according to a APHA press release.
OSHA has ordered Southern Air Inc., a Norwalk, Conn.-based air cargo carrier, to withdraw a lawsuit it filed against nine former employees and pay them more than $7.9 million in wages, damages and legal fees, according to an agency press release.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined yesterday
that an engine fire on an American Airlines jetliner was
probably due to an unapproved and improper procedure used by
mechanics to manually start one of the engines, according to an agency press release.
Federal and state governments should set a goal of reducing the number of highway work zone fatalities by 50 percent within the next two years as the best way to improve the safety of areas around highway construction sites, Stephen E. Sandherr, chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors said yesterday, according to an AGC of America press release.
Here’s one reason OSHA never seems to be able to get on track: Since the agency’s inception in 1971, it has had more acting administrators (13) than Senate-confirmed appointees (11). In addition, one OSHA administrator was named by the president during a Congressional recess and never confirmed by the Senate.
The Department of Labor has entered into a settlement with Triple B Cleaning Inc. in Houston to resolve findings by OSHA that the company illegally terminated an employee because of complaints about safety issues.
The Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has announced that settlement conferences held between mine operators and MSHA personnel to resolve enforcement disputes will be deferred until after civil penalties have been proposed and the operator notifies MSHA of its intent to contest the violations and/or penalties.
In a letter to Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) expresses its support and additional recommendations regarding Miller’s bill that would direct OSHA to issue an interim and final standard regarding worker exposure to combustible dust.
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