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NIOSH chief updates safety & health challenges

Robot safety, 24/7 connectivity, aging workforce are hot topics

May 11, 2016

Workers Memorial Day, 2016: Statement by John Howard, M.D., Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH):

30 violations, $149K in fines for Ohio ethanol facility

May 11, 2016

An Ohio ethanol production facility faces $149,800 in federal penalties after OSHA inspectors found multiple violations of chemical and grain-handling standards during three separate inspections.

DOT expands Takata air bag recall

May 10, 2016

The United States Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expanding and accelerating the recall of Takata air bag inflators. The decision follows the agency’s confirmation of the root cause behind the inflators’ propensity to rupture. Ruptures of the Takata inflators have been tied to ten deaths and more than 100 injuries in the United States.

After crash, Tenn. trucker found with beer, heroin and Xanax

Feds: He's a threat to public safety

May 10, 2016

On March 17, 2016, tractor-trailer driver Jason L. Flynn made an illegal turn across traffic, causing an accident that left a passenger car wedged underneath his trailer and its driver in the hospital.

Roofer ignores OSHA inspectors, exposes workers to 3-story falls

May 10, 2016

Two times in three days, OSHA inspectors witnessed Premier Roofing Company LLC and its sub-contractor Walter Construction LTD exposing workers to falls. On Dec. 21, 2015, OSHA responded after receiving a complaint about employees in danger of falling as they installed shingles on a three-story, multi-family building.

Canadian firefighters battle blaze, cope with hazards

May 9, 2016

The massive wildfire that has forced the evacuation of 90,000 Canadians and burned an area about the size of Houston has taken a toll on the region’s firefighters.

Hotel housekeepers alarmed by bloodborne pathogen exposure

May 9, 2016

Housekeeping department employees of the Sofitel Los Angeles have filed a complaint with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) alleging that they do not have the proper equipment to safely handle linen contaminated with blood or to remove used syringes and needles they encounter in guest rooms.

Workplace a special focus during Healthy Vision Month

May 9, 2016

May is a busy month. In addition to being Mental Health Awareness Month and National Electrical Safety Month, May is also Healthy Vision Month.

N.J. builder fails 21 inspections in 12 months

Faces fines of $895K

May 8, 2016

Berlin Builders Inc., a framing subcontractor on many residential construction projects in southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and northern Delaware, has failed 21 of 27 federal safety inspections in 12 months by putting its employees at risk of potentially fatal fall hazards.

FDA asserts reg authority over e-cigarettes, other products

May 6, 2016

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday finalized a rule extending its authority to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco and pipe tobacco. The rule helps implement the bipartisan Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 and allows the FDA to restrict the sale of these tobacco products to minors nationwide.