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Washington — OSHA’s Federal Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health is set to meet Nov. 17. Its Maritime Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health also will meet Nov. 17.
New York — Workers in the manufacturing, warehousing, construction and transportation industries need better support for their mental and emotional needs, results of a recent survey suggest.
Washington — Labor Secretary Marty Walsh has renewed the two-year charter for the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health, OSHA announced in a notice published in the Sept. 30 Federal Register.
Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency has published a final revised risk determination – as a whole chemical substance – poses “unreasonable risk” to workers and occupational nonusers under certain conditions.
Tumwater, WA — Refinery workers in high-hazard facilities in Washington state will have to undergo 20 hours of approved advanced safety training under a new rule from the state’s Department of Labor & Industries.
Washington — OSHA administrator Doug Parker and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky are among the scheduled speakers at NIOSH’s third annual International Symposium on Advancing Total Worker Health.
Corvallis, OR — When temperatures rise, so do the rates of traumatic injuries among outdoor workers, according to the results of a recent Oregon State University study.
Washington — NIOSH has established the Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing. Based at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Great Lakes Center becomes the 11th center for agricultural safety and health – or Ag Center – nationwide.
Morgantown, WV — Researchers at West Virginia University are working on a project that uses robots to help reduce slips and falls in retail workplaces.