By OSHA - Google News | March 6, 2009 - 3:09 pm - Posted in Common

Modern Slavery
Palestine Chronicle, WA
In addition, they're unprotected by OSHA and against sexual harassment under Title VII workplace safeguards as it applies only to employers with 15 or more workers. In cases of foreign employers, they enjoy diplomatic immunity, even from criminal, ...

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GE Energy site earns workplace safety recognition
Reliable Plant Magazine, OK
The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has designated GE Energy-Slater Membrane, Slater, Mo., as a Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) Star site, the agency's highest recognition for meeting or exceeding ...

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OSHA cites Suncor Energy site for safety violations
Reliable Plant Magazine, OK
The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Suncor Energy (USA) Inc. for safety and health violations, proposing $130500 in penalties. The petroleum refinery in Commerce City, Colo., has 384 employees. ...

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Dueling Blogs Show OSHA in a New Light
Occupational Health Safety, TX
But if you want inside dope on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the OSHA Underground site was about all you could find. Until now. Aiming his (her?) posts directly and sometimes pointedly at specific OSHA Underground posts by Kane, ...

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IUPAT General President Shares Views on Current Issues Affecting ...
USGlass News Network (USGNN), VA
There were also questions about OSHA standards, which protect the workers. During the Bush Administration [enforcement] was slashed. The only thing that was increased was enforcement of the regulatory issues. So instead of being a Department of Labor ...

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NONFICTION: Craziest Guys on the Lower East Side
Brooklyn Rail, NY
Osha Neumann’s Up Against the Wall Motherf**ker is like Amram’s book in this sense. Growing up in a household of intellectual Jewish refugees—his father was a prominent economist and his stepfather, who arrived on the scene when his father died, ...

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ASHCA implements strategy for safer farms at first national meeting
High Plains Journal, KS
Speaker John Howard, MD, former director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, said ASHCA "has a large role to play." Howard said ASHCA can serve this role through surveillance of injuries in the industry as well as ...

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NTTC cleaning, safety meets set March 30-April 2
Modern Bulk Transporter, TX
On March 31, the program lineup includes Paul Winniczuk of the University of Florida, foodgrade cleaning research and findings; Marcel Debruge of Burr and Forman LLP, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health ...

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ASSE Announces New Standard Project To Protect Workers In Wind
Power Online (press release), PA
Ryan J. Jacobson, PE, manager of wind energy services for Black & Veatch, will serve as the subgroup chair and Walter A. Jones, MS, associate director, occupational safety and health for Laborers' Health & Safety Fund of North America, will serve as ...

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Industrial Vacuum Cleaners: The Workhorse Behind Good Housekeeping ...
Pharmaceutical Processing, NJ
Under intense scrutiny since the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's (CSB), released its 2006 Combustible Dust Hazard Study, OSHA is taking action to amend is General Industry Housekeeping provision, 1910.22. ...

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