The Iron Workers Local 395 Apprenticeship School in Lake Station, Ind., has produced three of the imposing trucks for local police departments for a fraction of what an armored vehicle usually costs.
The $8.5 million national advertising campaign supports the first-ever national distracted driving high-visibility enforcement crackdown, which will run April 10-15.
The agency also cited Salko Kitchens Inc. for allegedly exposing workers to fire and explosion hazards.
The latest big recall has the manufacturer announcing it will recall 870,000 SUVs to fix a brake problem.
The apps address ladder safety, heat stress, safe lifting, noise monitoring, and first aid.
The rule includes significant PPE changes, such as mandating fall harnesses for workers in aerial lifts and requiring that employers provide and pay for FR apparel.
The www.choosehandsafety.org site launched by CPWR—The Center for Construction Research and Training, offers specific information tailored for the masonry trades.
The Institution of Chemical Engineers and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
Olivet Management LLC of Wingdale, N.Y., is cited for knowingly exposing workers to asbestos and lead during renovation work of the former Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center.
The geographic spread of cases so far, including in Conakry, the country's capital, makes this an unprecedented outbreak.
The Food Standards Agency has begun a six-week consultation on new rules for pork inspection rules that are set to be enacted in June 2014.
Don Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy, had it made to challenge MSHA's conclusion that the explosion four years ago in which 29 miners died resulted from basic safety violations and was a coal dust explosion that started as a methane ignition.
The agency has cited Grede Wisconsin Subsidiaries LLC for one repeat violation involving silica exposures.
More than two years after NTSB concluded its inadequate quality assurance and quality control in 1956 during a pipeline relocation project caused the explosion, the utility faces 12 charges with potential penalties of $500,000 per charge.
The brigade's survey found 60 percent of all high-rise residents -– approximately 760,000 households -– do not have a fire escape plan.