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For more than 40 years, safety and health professionals and others have relied on the NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards. Now a mobile app for the guide offers quick access to information on more than 600 chemicals. Get the details here.
OSHA’s inspection of an Auburn, Alabama, automobile parts manufacturer concluded that both permanent and temporary employees faced serious danger. Keep reading to find out what action the agency took, and why you need to be vigilant about protecting temporary workers.
Construction companies with a robust safety culture fared impressively compared to other contractors, according to an in-depth report. Find out more about the benefits they’re realizing, including some that go beyond worker protection.
So your forklift operator forgot his training and rolled off a loading dock. Or maybe your roofing crew members got careless and didn’t wear their fall protection. Or perhaps your supervisor was in a hurry and didn’t check the air in the tank before sending workers in. Whatever happened, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration […]
In June 2016, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) finalized its Small Unmanned Aircraft (UA) Rule at 14 CFR Part 107 regulating the operation of small UA that do not meet the definition of remote-control model aircraft. These aircraft, colloquially called “drones,” are used for both business and recreational purposes.
In an amendment issued as a direct final rule, the EPA is providing a temporary alternative compliance demonstration method to sources subject to the Agency’s National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for the portland cement manufacturing industry. The rule was originally promulgated in 1999 and has since been reworked with multiple, significant amendments.
Q. What is the definitive procedure/test for whether a waste contains a liquid when determining D001 waste code? Must generators use the Pressure Filtration Test to determine if the waste produces a Liquid that might have a flashpoint < 140°F?
Conspicuous by its absence in the 2016 Democratic platform (platform) is any mention of EPA’s Clean Water Rule (CWR). Currently being challenged in federal courts, the Agency and Army Corps of Engineers’ definition of waters of the United States (WOTUS) has thoroughly alienated the nation’s farmers, and apparently the Democratic National Committee does not view […]
Since August 2005, manufacturers of electronic goods sold in Europe have had to conform to the European Union’s (EU) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive. WEEE Directive 2012/19/EU, which EU member states were required to adopt by February 14, 2014, replaced the earlier, and now repealed, WEEE Directive 2002/96/EU.
Party platforms tend to attract much attention when they are released in advance of national conventions and then diminish in value and sometimes drop out of the picture entirely as the candidates for the White House and other offices express their personal visions of how government should be operated. The writing of platforms is conducted […]