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More rules urged for adult films
Contra Costa Times
But enforcement is based largely on performers complaints to the state's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Investigators with Cal/OSHA will send inspectors to film shoots if there is a concern of exposure of blood-borne pathogens or other ...
Activists Announce County Initiative to Require Condoms in Adult FilmsNBC Los Angeles
Ballot Initiative Would Require Condom Use By Adult Film StarsKABC
Safe sex in the porn industryLos Angeles Times
AVN News (press release)
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Jackson Lewis | OSHA Provides Warnings and Work Tips for Anticipated Winter ...
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
OSHA's new webpage, entitled “Winter Storms,” provides employers with information on preparing for winter storms and identifying and controlling hazards associated with winter storm conditions. lacerations or amputations from unguarded or improperly ...

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By "occupational safety" location:usa - Google News | - 4:36 pm - Posted in Common

Argggggggggh! America's Most Stressful Jobs
CNBC.com (blog)
A whopping 40 percent of American workers say their job is very or extremely stressful, according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Of course, some jobs are more stressful than others. Job-search portal CareerCast has once ...

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Vertikal.net (press release) (blog)

Nancy Quick retires
Vertikal.net (press release) (blog)
Nancy Quick a well known and respected compliance assistance specialist at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in Illinois has retired after 30 years. Based at the OSHA office in Aurora, to the west of Chicago, she was responsible ...

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By "occupational safety" location:usa - Google News | - 2:48 pm - Posted in Common

Five Franklin firefighters promoted
The Tennessean
Dye, a certified fire inspector since 2010, has a BS in Occupational Safety and Health from Columbia Southern University and 12 years of firefighting experience. He also serves as a petty officer in the US Coast Guard Reserve. ...

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Ballot Initiative Would Require Condom Use By Adult Film Stars
KABC
However, Cal OSHA's Ellen Widess, (Chief, Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Department of Industrial Relations), took issue with the City Attorney's assessment, noting in an email to a Deputy City Attorney that, “We (Cal/OSHA officials) ...

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By "occupational safety" location:usa - Google News | - 1:16 pm - Posted in Common

Local company cited by OSHA
The Tennessean
An explosion in Nashville July 2 that killed one worker and severely burned another prompted $46600 in penalties handed down to a Millersville-based company by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration in December. ...
Workers Still Exposed to Combustible Dust HazardsWebWire (press release)

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By "occupational safety" location:usa - Google News | - 1:09 pm - Posted in Common

Drowning leads to citations, fine
Kearney Hub
KEARNEY — A Lincoln construction company faces $19000 in fines from the Occupational Safety Health Administration after a Norfolk man drowned in one of the company's huge Caterpillars at a Kearney sandpit. CONSTRUC-TION CREWS dig around a D9 ...

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By U.S. EPA News | - 12:43 pm - Posted in Common
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 12-OPA001 (CHICAGO – Jan. 3, 2012) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced four environmental justice grants totaling $100,000 to non-profit and tribal organizations in the Great Lakes region

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By "occupational safety" location:usa - Google News | - 12:34 pm - Posted in Common

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Report: Wyoming lacks 'culture of safety'
WyoFile
He said the state should also promote the use of free “courtesy inspections,” which have long been a service provided by the Wyoming Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The purpose of a courtesy inspection is to identify hazards and get ...

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