Byrd Announces Funding Efforts for Mine Safety, Research and … - WOWK
By "occupational safety" location:usa - Google News | March 11, 2009 - 10:42 pm - Posted in Common

Byrd Announces Funding Efforts for Mine Safety, Research and ...
WOWK, WV
... salaries and bonuses to recruit and retain personnel; enforcement of employer-provided safety training, and mine rescue contests; The mine safety office in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was funded at $50 million, ...

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Grace lawyer tries to show that government concealed more secrets … - seattlepi.com Mariners blog
By OSHA - Google News | - 10:25 pm - Posted in Common

Grace lawyer tries to show that government concealed more secrets ...
seattlepi.com Mariners blog
Frongillo asked the physician, who is now medical adviser on bioterrorism to the FDA commissioner, about studies by OSHA and the Consumer Product Safety Board – also done in the 70s and both promising regulations and warnings on vermiculite products ...

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Report clears city in deadly East Side crane collapse - New York Daily News
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Report clears city in deadly East Side crane collapse
New York Daily News, NY
The findings of an engineering consultant hired by the department to investigate the March 15 disaster at 303 E. 51st St. mirror those the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued in September. The report, by Ove Arup & Partners, ...

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Survey tests new lifejacket - Homer News
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Survey tests new lifejacket
Homer News, AK
Between March 18-21, Homer commercial fishermen will be asked for feedback on six new PFD designs as part of a study being conducted by NIOSH, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. "The project is studying falls overboard and ...

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Instead of war, invest in education, jobs - Central Maine Morning Sentinel
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Instead of war, invest in education, jobs
Central Maine Morning Sentinel, ME
It was gratifying to hear Sen. Olympia Snowe talking about the ability of Maine to take the lead in green technologies such as wind, solar and mass transportation. She also stated, correctly, that Maine has the infrastructure in place to manufacture ...

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More worker safety training sought - Merced Sun-Star
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More worker safety training sought
Merced Sun-Star, CA
Debra Koehler-Fergen of Las Vegas added that federal authorities should have more authority over Nevada's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Carrillo, whose son Brian Sparkman, an iron worker, died in a Reno hospital after falling off a ...

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Worker Electrocuted At Fernandina Paper Mill - News4Jax.com
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Worker Electrocuted At Fernandina Paper Mill
News4Jax.com, FL
The 38-year-old electrician was found unresponsive in an electrical room at about 11:30 pm He was rushed to Nassau Baptist, where he died. The man's name has not yet been released. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration was investigating the ...

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Lawmakers urged to increase workplace safety training in Nevada - KTVN
By "occupational safety" location:usa - Google News | - 7:32 pm - Posted in Common

Lawmakers urged to increase workplace safety training in Nevada
KTVN, NV
Debra Koehler-Fergen of Las Vegas added that federal authorities should have more authority over Nevada's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Carrillo, whose son Brian Sparkman, an iron worker, died in a Reno hospital after falling off a ...

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More worker safety training sought - San Jose Mercury News
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More worker safety training sought
San Jose Mercury News,  USA
Nevada OSHA chief Tom Czehowski also has endorsed the bill, along with Lesley Pittman, representing Perini Building Co., the general contractor for the $9.2 billion CityCenter on the Strip. Safety concerns came to a head last year after the death of a ...

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Painful pleas at construction safety hearing - KVBC
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Painful pleas at construction safety hearing
KVBC, NV
"I have long said that if Nevada OSHA had held Boyd Gaming accountable to the letter in the Orleans case, it would have sent a message a lot sooner and a lot louder and maybe some of the deaths at City Center would have been prevented," said ...

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