An executive order implementing an emergency notification system for oil and gas-related emergencies was signed into law in August by Ohio Governor John Kasich.

A new study finds that sodium levels decreased in a sample of top selling packaged foods by about 7% from 2009 to the beginning of 2015.

The Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health (FACOSH) – the group that advises the Secretary of Labor on all matters relating to the occupational safety and health of federal employees – will meet on Sept. 8, 2016, in Washington, D.C.

An investigative team from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is en route to Cantonment, Florida, to look into an incident at the Airgas facility that killed one worker Sunday.

A report from public health experts found that people in Berkeley drank fewer sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) after the city passed an excise tax on them. They also drank more water. A lot more water.

It was around 4:30 in the afternoon on March 25, 1911. Several hundred workers, mostly young women, were nearing the end of their Saturday shift at a blouse or “shirtwaist” factory in New York City. No one is quite sure how, but a massive fire erupted and spread quickly.

Two high-profile leaders have recently garnered media attention for their drastically different attitudes toward work-life balance. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer became the topic of conversation this month regarding her remarks in a Bloomberg interview in which she discussed working 130-hour weeks during Google’s early days and stated that she can “tell you which startups will succeed, without even knowing what they do” based on whether or not employees were working on the weekend.

As the western United States struggles with chronic water shortages and a changing climate, scientists are warning that if vast underground stores of fresh water that California and other states rely on are not carefully conserved, they too may soon run dry.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) opened the public docket Monday, as part of its ongoing investigation of a 2015 Oxnard, California, Metrolink commuter train accident.

OSHA inspectors in Ocala, Florida looked up, and saw employees of D.R. Horton Inc. – one of the nation’s largest homebuilders , installing roofing sheathing without benefit of fall protection.