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At an apartment complex construction site in Nebraska, OSHA found construction contractors jeopardizing the safety and health of workers. The agency’s inspection resulted in citations for five companies working at the three-building complex.
According to the American Trucking Associations (ATA), President Trump will choose Scott Mugno, vice president of safety, sustainability, and vehicle maintenance at Fed-Ex Ground, to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
In implementing major policies, it is unlikely that Andrew Wheeler, the EPA’s new acting administrator, will differ in any significant way from Scott Pruitt, the man he’s replacing to direct the activities of the Agency’s 14,000 employees (that number is a 20-year low).
Babies born in the year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last set a human health assessment for ammonia are adults now, and it looks like it’s not as risky now than it was back then. What does EPA’s new assessment portend for facilities that use ammonia and the standard set by the Occupational Safety […]
OSHA maintains that it’s not just a regulatory enforcement agency, but also a promoter of efforts to improve occupational safety and health through programs such as VPP. Working with industry and labor, OSHA created the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) in 1982 to recognize and partner with worksites that implement what OSHA terms "exemplary" systems to […]
Washington is one of the safest places for worker safety and health, the state’s Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) stated Dec. 21, 2018, pointing to recently released workplace fatality figures for 2017.
On December 7, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a Denver-based information technology services provider must reinstate a whistleblower who raised concerns about the company’s failure to pay trust fund taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 303 Technologies Inc. violated the Taxpayer First Act, according to the agency, and must pay the […]
If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound? If a worker suggests safety measures and an EHS professional doesn’t bother listening, does the organization still have an effective workplace safety program? Katie Segura might not be able to answer the classic tree […]