School is out, and as teens throughout the nation take on summer employment, OSHA is focusing on keeping these young workers safe and healthy. The agency recently kicked off its Teen Summer Job Safety Campaign, a multi-year campaign that will focus on industries in which young people are likely to work during high school or college.
For the first time in a decade the rate of fatal workplace injuries increased, according to a new AFL-CIO job safety report, “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect — A National and State-by-State Profile of Worker Safety and Health in the United States.â€
OSHA has fined a Louisiana-based contractor $179,900 for alleged safety violations related to the injury of a 19-year-old worker at an Atlanta, Texas, worksite in November 2005. The teen lost both his legs as a result of a workplace incident.
According to a recently released congressional report, OSHA does not perform many safety inspections at federal workplaces and has not conducted any agency-wide evaluations of federal safety programs in the last six years, the Washington Post reports.
The number of deaths of workers covered by the Oregon workers' compensation system set a record low in 2005, according to Oregon News Online. Thirty-one workers died on the job during 2005, the lowest number reported since the state began tracking the statistic in 1943.
A McWane-owned company and four of its managers have been convicted in New Jersey on criminal counts ranging from polluting the Delaware River to intimidating workers and covering up details of a workplace fatality.
In one of the largest penalties ever issued nationally by safety regulators, OSHA last week fined BP Products North America, Inc. more than $2.4 million for unsafe operations at the company's Oregon, Ohio, refinery. An agency inspection identified numerous violations similar to those found during an investigation of last year’s fatal explosion at BP's Texas City, Texas, refinery that killed 15 workers and injured more than 170 others.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — the nation's beleaguered disaster response agency — should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of multiple government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded.
About 14,000 employers have been notified by OSHA that injury and illness rates at their work sites are higher than average and that assistance is available to help them fix safety and health hazards.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — the nation's beleaguered disaster response agency — should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of multiple government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded.
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