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There’s No Place Like Home… for Workplace Safety” is a new self-help brochure for telecommuters published by the American Industrial Hygiene Association.

The revised injury and illness recordkeeping rule was slated to be issued by July 1, 2000.

A brief summary of OSHA's recent accomplishments.

Sweating is effective only if the humidity level is low enough or air is moving across your skin and if body fluids and salt are adequately replaced.

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OSHA estimates that 750,000 construction workers are bombarded by harmful noise levels.

OSHA chief Charles Jeffress tells Industrial Safety & Hygiene News that his agency won’t be able to publish final requirements that make changes to how employers record job-related injuries and illnesses in time for the rules to take effect in 2001.

OSHA’s standard-setting process is “limping along,” the agency’s chief, Charles Jeffress, warned his audience at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exhibition.

A California sausage factory owner was arrested after allegedly shooting to death three government health inspectors touring the company.

Late last year the American Industrial Hygienists Association’s Board of Directors voted to change the name of the group’s annual conference to the Environmental Health & Safety Conference & Expo.