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.
The New York Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) has published a special edition of its Safety Rep newsletter titled, “After 8 Years of Bush: Can OSHA be fixed? What must be done.” The 20-page newsletter presents priorities, initiatives, and policies “to restore the nation’s commitment to protecting working people from life-threatening job hazards,” according to the newsletter’s introduction.
On Monday, Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), New York State AFL-CIO President Denis Hughes, New York City Central Labor Council President Jack Ahern, 9/11 responders, lower Manhattan residents and others gathered near Ground Zero to encourage President Obama to reappoint Dr. John Howard as the federal government’s 9/11 Health Coordinator, according to a press statement from Rep. Maloney’s office.
OSHA cited Precision Industrial Maintenance Inc. for alleged willful and serious violations of safety and health standards after an employee was fatally overcome by vapors while inside a tanker truck, the agency said in a press release.
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