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3 Oct 2019, 6:22 am by NZB
Research conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia did find that in a study of 117 rear-seated occupants age 6 to 92 who were killed or seriously injured in front end collisions, there was significant seat belt trauma to their chests though the seat belts met the minimum federal safety standards. [read post]
30 Sep 2019, 9:02 pm by Joe Whitworth
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30 Sep 2019, 7:00 pm by MEL
According to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), employers have a duty to respond to discrimination complaints. [read post]
30 Sep 2019, 9:27 am by Leland Garvin
Top 10 Most Dangerous Areas for Pedestrians Pedestrian accidents have always been a concern for travelers and traffic safety officials, given that people traveling by foot are so much more vulnerable to serious injury and death when involved in crashes compared to motor vehicle occupants. [read post]
30 Sep 2019, 9:27 am by Leland Garvin
Top 10 Most Dangerous Areas for Pedestrians Pedestrian accidents have always been a concern for travelers and traffic safety officials, given that people traveling by foot are so much more vulnerable to serious injury and death when involved in crashes compared to motor vehicle occupants. [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 9:39 pm by Kit Case
The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) recently issued an hazard alert directed to all employers and workers who rely on personal fall arrest systems. [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 12:44 pm
In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tells us that pedestrians are 1.5 times more likely to be killed in a car crash than passenger vehicle occupants. [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 9:46 am
In response to the dangerous levels of air quality last fall after the wildfires in Northern and Southern California, the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has enacted an emergency regulation addressing hazardous wildfire smoke exposure. [read post]
25 Sep 2019, 11:07 am by Courtney Dercqu
According to statistics recently released by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), of the 4,674 work-related fatalities that were reported by private sector industry employers in 2017, 971 or 20.7% occurred in the construction industry. [read post]
24 Sep 2019, 8:00 am by Robert Kreisman
“By reducing patient-to-nurse ratios, enacting a safe patient limits law in Illinois could improve occupational safety, increase nurse retention rates and promote better health outcomes for patients and have little to no negative impact on the financial performance of Illinois hospitals,” the Illinois groups said in their report. [read post]
23 Sep 2019, 4:52 pm by Lynn L. Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton
Paul Schulte, Director of the Division of Science Integration, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and Dr. [read post]
23 Sep 2019, 1:56 pm by John C. Manoog III
In so holding, the court rejected the defendant’s contention that, because he was handcuffed and in the officer’s cruiser during the search, there was no continuing threat to the officer’s safety; two adults and three children were still in the car, and thus the threat to the officer’s safety and the safety of the vehicle’s occupants had not ceased, in the appellate court’s opinion. [read post]
23 Sep 2019, 12:37 pm by Leland Garvin
This makes adoption of truck safety features all the more important. [read post]
23 Sep 2019, 12:37 pm by Leland Garvin
This makes adoption of truck safety features all the more important. [read post]
According to the Sun report, the Maryland Occupational Safety and Health agency recommended that a logistics entity receive citations and several thousand dollars in fines as a result of several workplace safety issues at the BWI Marshall Airport. [read post]
20 Sep 2019, 9:58 am by HRWatchdog
Secretary Su oversees the state departments and boards that enforce labor laws, including minimum wage and occupational safety standards, provide state disability and unemployment insurance benefits, fund workforce training and apprenticeship programs, combat wage theft, protect injured workers, and arbitrate public sector contract disputes. [read post]
19 Sep 2019, 4:52 pm by Will Troutman (US)
The Prop 65 regulations outline the process for adding chemicals through this mechanism and identify the following authoritative bodies: International Agency for Research on Cancer (solely as to transplacental carcinogenicity) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health National Toxicology Program (solely as to final reports of the National Toxicology Program’s Center for Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction) U.S. [read post]