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According to data released Thursday as part of National Safety Month, the National Safety Council says that over a ten-year period, accidental deaths are up more than 20 percent, reaching 113,000 deaths in 2005.

Edwin Foulke Jr., OSHA’s assistant secretary of labor, and John Howard, M.D., director of NIOSH, were on stage Wednesday — alongside ISHN editor Dave Johnson — at the opening session of the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition (AIHce).

Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH, sparked the passions of those attending the Tuesday general session at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition (AIHce) presentation covering the challenges facing industrial hygienists and occupational and environmental health and safety (OEHS) professionals.

Both the MiniRAE 3000 and ppbRAE 3000 will have applications in industrial settings, environmental monitoring, indoor air quality and hazmat response applications, the company says.

Employers should ban workers from multi-tasking behind the wheel, a consultant told a workplace safety group meeting.

Topics of ten new resources will range from clandestine meth lab assessment, to control banding analyses, to IH and safety auditing, and more.

There is increasing evidence that obesity and being overweight may be related, in part, to poor working conditions.

In testimony before House Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Chemical Safety Board urged "governments at all levels to take steps to protect public employees from preventable chemical accidents..."

New legislation would attempt to put contract workers — like the 14 who lost their lives in the 2005 BP refinery explosion — on equal footing with regular employees on issues of workplace safety.

New safety and health guidance from OSHA is designed to help healthcare workers and their employers prepare for a possible influenza pandemic.