Employees who feel that issues with home and family life are interfering with their work take more sick leave, more often, according to a study in the August Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
A revision to OSHA’s Acetylene Standard replaces references to outdated consensus standards with updated references reflecting current industry practices in the acetylene industry.
OSHA announced in a press released that it has cited A-1 Excavating Inc. in Bloomer, Wis., with one willful and four serious violations of federal workplace safety standards following the death of a worker.
On August 6th, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a revised hurricane outlook for the 2009 hurricane season. While this outlook provides important trends and cycles, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in a recent press release, is taking this opportunity to remind the public that no one can predict where the next storm will strike or what the impacts of that storm will be. As we move into the more active phase of the hurricanes season, FEMA says it is critical that everyone take steps now to prepare themselves and their families.
Dennis Beetham and his company, D.B. Western Inc., have been indicted on both federal and state charges alleging that he illegally dumped hazardous and other industrial waste in Crook County, Ore., the Justice Department announced.
OSHA has cited the U.S. Postal Service's Processing and Distribution Facility in Eau Claire for alleged repeat and serious violations of federal workplace safety standards and has proposed $58,500 in penalties.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has fined nine farms and 17 farm labor contractors doing business in Bladen and Craven counties, N.C., for violating federal labor law, including employing children as young as eight years old as farm laborers.
Updated federal guidelines offer state and local public health and school officials a range of options for responding to 2009 H1N1 influenza in schools, depending on how severe the flu may be in their communities, according to a recent press release from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The guidance says officials should balance the risk of flu in their communities with the disruption that school dismissals will cause in education and the wider community.
A four-member investigative team from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is deploying to the site of a release of propane and hydrogen fluoride at the ExxonMobil refinery in Joliet, Illinois, according to an agency press release.