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OSHA, NIOSH and NHCA team up to help reduce and prevent occupational exposure to noise and ototoxic (hearing damaging) chemicals.

Following deadly sugar plant explosion, Teamsters Union and the United Food and Commercial Workers file a petition with the Labor Department.

Texas A&M University will pay $1 million to settle an investigation that found safety and sanitation lapses and other problems in its biodefense program.

Two-year pact will aim at improving safety for crane, hoist and monorail systems owners and operators.

Agency is accepting nominations for the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH).

It took a lawsuit to force Sears to fix millions of stoves that can tip over and crush children because the agency didn't take meaningful action, two consumer groups claim.

OSHA issued contractors 44 safety and health violations after firefighters died last summer at a condemned ground zero skyscraper in New York.

Weak enforcement, minimal fines and dwindling inspections allow poultry processors to ignore hazards that can kill and injure workers, Charlotte Observer reports.

OSHA cites Alabama company for 13 safety violations after inspectors visited three jobsites in August and November 2007.

Novel approach to blocking staph infections could offer a new direction for therapies against a bacterium that's becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, according to the NIH.