The United States Court Of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld OSHA’s permissible exposure limit for hexavalent chromium on Monday, denying arguments by Public Citizen Health Research Group and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Worker’s International Union, (collectively “HRG”) that OSHA’s PEL was too low.
More than a month into the Obama administration, there’s increasing chatter in Washington corridors about who will be appointed assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health.
Seth Harris has been named by President Obama to be deputy secretary of labor, the number two spot at DOL. Harris worked for the Obama campaign and served in the Clinton administration.
Representative Hilda L. Solis of California finally was confirmed by the Senate Tuesday to be secretary of labor. The 80-to-17 Senate vote ended more than a month of delays, triggered by Republican concern about her strong ties to organized laborer and disclosures about unpaid tax liens on her husband’s business.
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) recognized the Publix Super Markets for their commitment to workplace safety in a letter from ASSE President Warren K. Brown, CSP, ARM, CSHM, of Fairborn, Ohio, according to an ASSE press release.
Scheduled for March 4 at the Peoria Civic Center, the 18th annual Downstate Illinois Occupational Safety and Health (DIOSH) Day will focus on workplace safety and health issues and provide information on these topics to employers, employees and the general public, according to a recent press release.
Out of hundreds of entries from children aged 5-14 from around the world, children from Indiana, New York, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin took the first place honors in their age group for the 7th annual American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) kids’ “safety-on-the-job” poster contest, ASSE announced in a press release.
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) and Teagasc, in association with the Farm Safety Partnership Advisory Committee, are holding a spring farm safety seminar campaign aimed at preventing fatal and serious injury in the farming sector, according to an HSA press release.
“Through the President’s stimulus package, green initiatives will play a significant role in powering economic recovery,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, in a recent agency press statement. “EPA’s portion of the plan will create good, sustainable jobs that help produce cleaner drinking water, purer air, environmentally friendly urban and rural re-development, and reduced greenhouse gases.”
U.S. employers expect health care cost increases to hold steady at six percent and more plan to adopt consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) in 2010 in an effort to control cost increases, according to a forthcoming survey by Watson Wyatt, a leading global consulting firm, and the National Business Group on Health, an association of more than 300 mostly large employers, including 64 of the Fortune 100.
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