At long last OSHA published a new standard in the Feb. 28 Federal Register that covers occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium in general industry, construction and shipyards.
President Bush’s budget request of $483.7 million for OSHA in fiscal year 2007 represents an increase of $11.2 million over FY 2006 and includes boosts for federal enforcement, compliance assistance and safety and health statistics, Jonathan L. Snare, acting OSHA chief, announced last month.
Experts say "employees with chronic work stress have more than double the odds" of suffering from metabolic syndrome than do "those without work stress, after other risk factors are taken into account," according to a report on www.mydna.com.
As BP continues its efforts to bring its 1,200-acre Texas City refinery back online, the work is being watched closely by OSHA, the Galveston County Daily News reports. Agency inspectors have been conducting unit-by-unit oversight of the work.
President Bush’s nominee to head OSHA, Edwin G. Foulke Jr., told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Jan. 31 that if confirmed he would work to make the agency more proactive in preventing workplace deaths and fatalities.
A Virginia businessman has been sentenced to five months in jail, followed by five months home detention and three years supervised release, according to U.S. Newswire.
Thousands of West Virginia miners got safety lectures at the start of their shifts, and officials began a round of inspections across the No. 2 coal-producing state Thursday, Feb. 2, in a "timeout" urged by the governor, according to the Associated Press.
In light of major layoffs at Ford Motor Co., Michigan lawmakers last month passed a bill to block the state from adopting new workplace safety rules they say can only add to Michigan's job woes, according to the Detroit News.
West Virginia lawmakers approved a wide raft of measures aimed at improving mine safety in the nation's second-largest coal producing state, an overhaul triggered by the deaths of 14 miners this month, according to the Associated Press.
Four U.S. senators who met Friday with the families of 12 coal miners killed at the Sago Mine vowed to find answers about what caused the Jan. 2 explosion, what went wrong afterward and how mine safety can be improved nationwide as a legacy to the lost men, the Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette reports.
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