Three Rivers earns national safety award for 2010 - Midland Daily News
By OSHA - Google News | April 29, 2011 - 10:30 pm - Posted in Common

Three Rivers earns national safety award for 2010
Midland Daily News
Three Rivers consistently has fewer OSHA recordable injuries than the state and national average and in two years -- 2004 and 2010 -- had zero. Leaders at Three Rivers say they've created a culture of safety that's built into the organization. ...

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Workers’ Memorial Day Commemorated at the Mass. State House - Open Media Boston
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Workers' Memorial Day Commemorated at the Mass. State House
Open Media Boston
“OSHA has greatly reduced workplace injuries and deaths, but more needs to be done to strengthen OSHA” and partnering institutions. The average final penalty 2010 Massachusetts employers paid for a workplace fatality was just over $5800. ...

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Mesothelioma sufferers remembered on Workers’ Memorial Day - Mesothelioma.com
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Mesothelioma sufferers remembered on Workers' Memorial Day
Mesothelioma.com
April 28, 2011, also marks the 40th anniversary of the Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA). Since the founding of this Washington, DC-based agency, the construction worker fatality rate has dropped by 86% and 76% for manufacturing ...

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Cancer in blue-collar workers - The Bloomington Alternative
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Cancer in blue-collar workers
The Bloomington Alternative
2) More funding needs to be allocated to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) budget to develop “better control technology that will result in the reduction of human exposure to carcinogenic substances found in the workplace ...

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Injuries Among Older Workers on the Rise: CDC - BusinessWeek
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Injuries Among Older Workers on the Rise: CDC
BusinessWeek
SOURCES: Dawn N. Castillo, MPH, Chief, Surveillance and Field Investigations Branch, Division of Safety Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; April 29, 2011, CDC's Morbidity and ...
Older Workers Take Longer to Recover from InjuriesMedPage Today
CDC: Injuries Cause More Missed Days in Older WorkersMD News (press release)

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LETTER: OSHA turns 40 - Jackson Times Journal
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LETTER: OSHA turns 40
Jackson Times Journal
In the 40 years since the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was created, the agency has led the way to historic declines in workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses. Today OSHA continues to make a ...

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SMC to offer safety course for licensed residential builders - Niles Daily Star
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SMC to offer safety course for licensed residential builders
Niles Daily Star
The non-credit course will cover residential building code updates; construction safety as defined by the Michigan Occupational Safety & Health Administration; and legal documentation required for Michigan residential builders. ...

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Investigating Lab Safety on Campus - Wesleyan Argus
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Wesleyan Argus
Investigating Lab Safety on Campus
Wesleyan Argus
Both Yale and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are running investigations into the incident. OSHA is a federal agency that formulates and implements regulations with which all laboratories must comply. ...

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State Honors Workers on Their Memorial Day - WGIL Radio News
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State Honors Workers on Their Memorial Day
WGIL Radio News
"In terms of OSHA funding, just to give you an example, it would take 94 years to inspect all the workplaces in the state of Illinois once." Organizer Terry Reed, president of the council, says office workers who suffer the effects of asbestos are ...

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Day honors workers killed on the job - WWLP 22News
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Day honors workers killed on the job
WWLP 22News
She was working alone in a small gift shop, and that's where she was abducted from,” Ziegert said. OSHA works to make the workplace a safer environment. Its goal is to have people return from work the way they went to work; uninjured and well.

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