Wyeth Pharmaceuticals’ Pearl River, N.Y., research and manufacturing facility will become the 2,000th worksite in OSHA’s elite Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP).
According to a recent EPA press release, the agency will now require new safety measures for the soil fumigants methyl bromide, chloropicrin, dazomet, metam sodium, and metam potassium.
OSHA announced in the June 30 Federal Register that it will hold two informal public hearings on the proposed rule for General Working Conditions in Shipyard Employment.
Kimberly-Clark Professional has donated thousands of health and hygiene products to help businesses and residents in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, clean up from extensive damage caused by recent flooding.
In light of recent flooding conditions in the Midwest, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) offers tips to help businesses hit by flooding avoid problems with mold and moisture.
A new ISO standard provides a comprehensive methodology for assessing risk and managing work in cold environments, according to the International Standards Organization.
OSHA boss Edwin Foulke was on the hot seat Tuesday at a Congressional hearing, fending off attacks that his agency was impotent in the face of a series of recent construction-related fatalities in New York City and Las Vegas.
Summer’s here, and the time is right to take heat stress precautions. That’s the word from OSHA in its latest fact sheet, “Protecting Workers from the Effects of Heat.”
In a May 9, 2008 memo to the heads of executive departments and agencies such as OSHA and EPA, White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten warned regulators to
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