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• The International Call for Fashion Safety - Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh

  
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  MAY 13, 2013  Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh The undersigned parties are committed to the goal of a safe and sustainable Bangladeshi ReadyMade Garment ("RMG") industry in which no worker needs to fear fires, building collapses, or  other accidents that could be prevented with ...
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• The job fatality rate isnt budging, and no wonder, with penalties this low

  
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  When we think about workplace fatalities, its natural that we think about cases like the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh, which at this writing had caused more than 1000 fatalities . In the United States, we think about the West Fertilizer Co. explosion, which killed 14, including 10 firefighters. Or the Upper Big ...
  1 week ago

• Protecting Healthcare Workers

  
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  Kerri A. Thom, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, puts a spotlight on the healthcare environment and its role in spreading bacteria that cause healthcare-associated infections. She discusses this topic in context of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of ...
  2 weeks ago

• PITISE UNIV

  
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  Interdisciplinary Engineer (Ventilation) Job Announcement Number: DE-13-PHIL-MSHA 0042 Location Name: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;Triadelphia, West Virginia Department: Department Of Labor Agency: Mine Safety and Health Administration Occupation Code: General Engineering Pay Plan: GS Appointment Duration: ...
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• What went wrong in West, Texas - and where were the regulators?

  
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  Seven different agencies regulate fertilizer plants in Texas, but none of them have authority over how close they are to homes and schools. read more
  3 weeks ago

• What Constitutes Supervisor Negligence at a Construction Site?

  
  JusticeNewsFlash.com | Legal News | Lawyer Press Release — Authority: 146
  04/22/2013 // New York Injury Accident Lawyer // Jonathan C. Reiter // (press release) New York construction sites are typically full of accidents waiting to happen. The nature of the construction business makes it potentially hazardous, and calls for the implementation of strict safety protocols to ensure the ...
  3 weeks ago

• As Country Honors West, Texas Victims in Memorial, Work Lies Ahead to Make Workers, First Responders, and the Public Safer

  
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  Guest post by the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards Texas Plant Disaster Shows Fragmented System of Oversight The specific cause of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant disaster is still being investigated, but one thing is clear: Tragedies like this shouldn’t happen in America. Our country can and should do more ...
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• At chicken plants, chemicals blamed for health ailments are poised to proliferate

  
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  When Jose Navarro landed a job as a federal poultry inspector in 2006, he moved his wife and newborn son to a rural town in Upstate New York near the processing plant, believing it was a steppingstone to a better life. Read full article >>        
  3 weeks ago

• Texas Fertilizer Plant Fell Through Cracks of Regulatory Oversight

  
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  It is still unclear how much ammonium nitrate, the chemical linked to last week’s deadly blast, was stored at a West, Tex., plant that operated in a regulatory patchwork.        
  3 weeks ago

• Three Decades Since OSHA Inspected Texas Fertilizer Co.

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 141
  It’s been almost three decades since Adair Grain Inc.’s West Fertilizer Company, the scene of a deadly explosion last week in Texas, was inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. According to its online database, OSHA last inspected the plant in February 1985, and OSHA is now sending ...
  4 weeks ago

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