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• Louisiana Chemical Plant Hasn’t Been Inspected By OSHA In Two Decades

  
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  Credit: Fox News A petrochemical plant in Geismar, Louisiana that exploded on Thursday, killing one person and injuring 73 , has not been inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the past two decades, according to an analysis by ThinkProgress. The Williams Olefins plant, which ...
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• Investigation Launched into Death of Georgia Worker at Kia Supplier

  
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  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has  launched an investigation  into working conditions at Sewon America’s LaGrange, Ga., facility after an employee, Teresa Weaver Pickard, died after allegedly being forced to work in extreme heat. Sewon, a company that provides auto parts to Kia,  denies ...
  5 days ago

• Louisiana chemical plant explosion kills one, injures dozens more

  
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  Click to enlarge, then look for Louisiana way over at the left, in black. An explosion and fire at a Louisiana chemical plant Thursday killed one and injured many more , with 73 sent to area hospitals, according to reports. State police said the fire had been extinguished on Thursday afternoon. A state police ...
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• Lawyer: Contractor not to blame in Philly collapse

  
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  A contractor was onsite for a building demolition in Philadelphia last week but isnt to blame for the collapse of a four-story brick wall that killed six people inside an adjacent store, his lawyer said Tuesday. Contractor Griffin Campbell feels "despondent" over the deaths, lawyer Kenneth Edelin said. ...
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• Texas Companies Receive Awards for Occupational Safety and Health

  
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  Recent  industrial accidents  like the West Texas plant explosion are a constant reminder of just how important occupational safety is. In light of these tragedies, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation awarded two Texas companies for their outstanding occupational safety and health ...
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• Manningtree High School fined over climbing wall fall

  
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  A school where a pupil fell from a climbing wall and broke his heel during a PE lesson has been fined. Manningtree High School in Essex was fined £9,000 after admitting a health and safety breach at Colchester Magistrates’ Court. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said the boy, 14, fell more than 4m (13ft) […]
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• 87 Published Works on Vaccines and Adverse Health Concerns

  
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  Although safety is not my sole reason for declining vaccines, it is one. I want to take this opportunity to provide a resource – an offer of research that examines the safety and health risks associated when a vaccine is utilized in the determent of a specific disease . Below is published research that proposes ...
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• Amazon Fires Destroying Rainforest

  
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  NASA scientists have calculated that slow-burning fires in the rainforests have led to a major percentage of loss of lush vegetation. These fires slowly creep up on the plant material and engulf it...        
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• How to Convince Employees on the Value of Health & Safety?

  
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  According to a report by Rockwell Automation , every year six million workers suffer from non-fatal workplace injuries, resulting in an annual cost of more than $125 billion to United States businesses. I think these facts are enough to give you an idea on the importance of Safety training. In the last blog, we have ...
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• Complaints of shoddy work, unsafe conditions reported before Philly building collapse

  
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  Poor demolition work reportedly went uninspected for more than three weeks before the deadly collapse of a building in Philadelphia, raising questions about the citys regulatory process. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Mayor Michael Nutter and Licenses and Inspections Commissioner Carlton Williams said ...
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• Philadelphia officials look for cause of deadly building collapse

  
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  The search for victims of a building collapse that killed six people wound down Thursday, and the first civil lawsuit was filed amid mounting questions about whether the demolition company that was tearing down the structure caused the tragedy by cutting corners. The four-story building along Philadelphias busy ...
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• Philadelphia officials look for cause of deadly building collapse

  
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  The search for victims of a building collapse that killed six people wound down Thursday amid mounting questions about whether the demolition company that was tearing down the structure caused the tragedy by cutting corners. The four-story building along Philadelphias busy Market Street collapsed Wednesday onto a ...
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• Four in 10 poultry workers have carpal tunnel, and the government wants to make it worse

  
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  One federal agency studied workers at a South Carolina poultry processing plant and found that 42 percent had "evidence of carpal tunnel syndrome," while 41 percent "worked in jobs above the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists’ threshold limit value for hand activity and force." At the same ...
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• Why do we need to “sell” Health & Safety to employees?

  
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  According to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), in 2009, globally 4551 workers were killed, in 2011, globally 4609 workers were killed and in U.S alone every year approximately 5800 workers are killed due to injuries at the workplace. It is now evident that why an organization has to prove the ...
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• Site Assessment Changes May Increase Costs, Report Times

  
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  Proposed changes to Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessments may increase user costs and delay report delivery times, according to GlobeSt.com. The American Society for Testing Materials is currently updating the industry’s Standard Practice for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments as it tries to make such tests ...
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• OSHA fines Lewiston company over 2012 natural gas explosion

  
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  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined a Lewiston construction company for its role in a natural gas explosion in downtown Lewiston last November. OSHA cited M.L. Albright and...
  2 weeks ago

• Addressing Safety on the Construction Site

  
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  For this week’s Construction Law Musings Guest Post, we welcome a new face, Patrick Rafferty.  Patrick ( @ThePraff ) is a consultant for Brahman Systems and has an interest in construction safety. First of all, I’d like to say that I am not an attorney. Anything I say in this article should be taken with a ...
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• Sir, We Are Just Doing What You Taught Us To Do, Remember?

  
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  PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: True The Vote Sues IRS Employees In Their Personal Capacity. “True the Vote is not only suing the IRS, but also taking action against the IRS employees who participated in the harassment of the voter education and election monitoring organization. Those employees could personally ...
  3 weeks ago

• Retailers are the key to workplace safety

  
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  A coalition of faith organizations, investors and labor groups—including the AFL-CIO—is urging major U.S. retailers, including Walmart, Gap, Sears and others, to sign on to a binding workplace and fire safety plan to prevent tragedies such as the recent building collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Highlights of Safety and Health Expo 2013

  
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  ← Can employers overrule fit notes? Protection and Management Week 2013 → Posted on May 20, 2013 by aregal Safety and Health Expo is the leading occupational health and safety exhibition in Europe. This annual event attracts industry experts as well as small businesses looking to expand ...
  4 weeks ago

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