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The chicken industry is playing a lead role in improving worker safety and reducing the incidence of injuries and health problems, says the NCC.

Stress is responsible for more than half of all missed work days, costing the European economy an estimated 20 billion euros ($29 billion) each year.

Employees who were killed in a blast last year at a California spaceship company were watching a propulsion system test though a chain-link fence when the explosion occurred.

Under the final rule, employees have until May 15 to implement the PPE payment requirements.

Regulation implements Section 4 of the MINER Act of 2006 to improve overall mine rescue capability and mine rescue team effectiveness.

The blast in a silo, where refined sugar is stored before being packaged, was reportedly caused by a sugar dust explosion.

Concrete block manufacturer is the first company to be criminally convicted since amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada were established four years ago.

OSHA has fined a medical devices sterilization company in Waukegan, Ill., $117,000 for repeat and serious violations of federal workplace safety standards.

A worker was killed when a 400-pound slab of pavement fell into the ditch he was working in and landed on him; OSHA has levied penalties.

AIHA has introduced an intermediate course on DVD designed to provide participants with working knowledge of OSHA’s Respiratory Protection Standard and related respiratory program tools.