By OSHA - Google News | July 15, 2010 - 6:07 pm - Posted in Common

PRLog.Org (press release)

Seas You Cant Use Any Longer
PRLog.Org (press release)
Three federal agencies - DHHS, EPA and OSHA - cannot find any unsafe levels of oil in the air or water. BP fails to mention the threat from dispersed oil, ...

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By OSHA - Google News | - 6:07 pm - Posted in Common

What's really happening with the BP well
True/Slant
In the old days, the guys who came and sprayed your house or apartment for bugs were called “exterminators.” If you look carefully, ...

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Committee Approves Miller Amendment to Prohibit BP or other Dangerous Companies
BigNews.biz (press release)
... requests for drilling licenses should have taken into consideration BP's flagrant history of worker fatalities, OSHA violations (Statistics from OSHA), ...

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(Seattle—July 15, 2010) The city of Tacoma will pay nearly $225,000 in penalties for the release of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) stemming from its refrigerated appliance disposal service, according to a consent decree lodged by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the U.S

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By OSHA - Google News | - 3:14 pm - Posted in Common

ScienceBlogs (blog)

A water cooler for the public health crowd
ScienceBlogs (blog)
... the Chemical Safety Board urged OSHA to issue regulations to prevent explosions and fires during pipe cleaning and purging operations. ...

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Kansas City Star

Should photographer shoot potentially dangerous situation?
Kansas City Star
He writes: Your front page pic of three roofers working on a house clearly shows a Serious/Willfull OSHA violation with all the workers not using any fall ...

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Experts: Coke plants full of dangers, can be safe
The Associated Press
Clairton was last inspected by OSHA in 2009, and the agency found no violations. A US Steel spokeswoman said there was no one available Thursday to talk ...

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By "occupational safety" location:usa - Google News | - 2:31 pm - Posted in Common

Feds, groups say alliance will enhance construction industry safety
Austin American-Statesman (blog)
Representatives of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and two Austin-based non-profit groups — Construction Safety and Health ...

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NEW In painful irony, lifesaving chemo poses threat, too
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Jordan Barab said in written response to questions from InvestigateWest that the agency doesn't have the ...

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By "occupational safety" location:usa - Google News | - 2:10 pm - Posted in Common

NEW Relationship between work, health hard to nail down
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
... said Dr. Geoff Calvert, supervisor of medical epidemiology for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a division of the CDC. ...

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