The students received $5,000 scholarships and will attend AIHce 2014 courtesy of the 3M Personal Safety Division.
The U.S. Forest Service and Interior Department have only $1.4 billion available for firefighting, however. The wildfire season is becoming longer and more intense.
San Antonio's Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center is the site for AIHce 2014, the year's best industrial hygiene conference.
The partnership launches an eight-month national safety campaign.
The company recalled its YoBaby Pear/Peach yogurts because of possible coliform contamination.
The Transport Agency is trying this on the 130-kilometer Southern Coromandel Loop. Only 3 percent of the vehicles that travel it are motorcycles, but from 2008 to 2012, motorcyclists were involved in 44 percent of all fatal and serious injury crashes on it.
The agency issued 152 citations, 14 orders and one safeguard during the month.
The 3M Petrifilm Salmonella Express System was just one of the safety products honored April 30 in the 2014 Edison Awards competition. Products from Kimberly-Clark, Sonomax, and Starkey Hearing Technologies also won.
OSHA has cited Five Star Commercial Roofing and issued nearly $50,000 in fines for allegedly exposing its workers to fall hazards.
The agency reminds employers in the state to ensure their outdoor workers are protected as the temperatures rise.
The FDA entered a consent decree with a New York cheese producer due to listeria contamination in its products.
Unfortunately, wholesale adoption of GHS hazard classification system principles will disrupt various chemical hazard assessment programs and heighten problems manufacturers and importers will face.
Alan Duncan, minister of state for International Development, discussed the government's support for workers injured in the Rana Plaza collapse, and for the ILO and the Bangladesh government, during a parliamentary hearing April 30.
It is management's responsibility to know and comply with current treatment preparation requirements and to acquire emergency response equipment that will provide such treatment.
Evaluating the proper, ANSI-compliant enclosed safety solutions for your climates is an important first step in determining the right solution.