News from the Safety Industry

On August 25, U.S. Department of Labor published final guidance on the Obama administration's Fair Pay & Safe Workplaces Executive Order. This law aims to ensure compliance with labor laws for employers awarded federal contracts by helping the government identity responsible companies with a history [...]

OSHA Administrator David Michaels has raised the issue of how the media and the public pay little attention to the nearly 14 deaths that occur each day in U.S. workplaces, especially when so much attention has been focused on the 14 deaths surrounding the Takata air bag scandal.

Craft brewers have carved out a unique niche in the beer industry, and the segment continues to grow. Recent data from The Brewers Association shows that independent craft brewers now have a 12% market share in the industry. As market share grows so, too, do the number of operating breweries, up 15% [...]

The latest CDC Foundation Business Pulse interactive infographic examines motor vehicle safety at work, paying particular attention to four challenges facing businesses: fatalities, cost burden, complex risk, international business travel.

The revision of ANSI/ASSE Z359.1, Safety Requirements for Personal Fall Arrest Systems, Subsystems and Components, recently received final ANSI administrative approval. Z359.1 underwent fundamental changes from the 2007 version. Essentially, it is a new standard with regard to technical content, not [...]

In the world of fall protection, the amount of equipment available to prevent workers from being injured is as dizzying as the heights they climb do to their jobs.

OSHA, MSHA and NIOSH have partnered in a challenge to inventors and entrepreneurs that the agencies hope will result in a technological solution to workplace noise exposure and hearing loss.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has created the first operational rule for routine commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or drones) weighing less than 55 lb that conduct nonhobbyist operations. FAA reports the regulations will create new innovations safely, spark job growth an [...]

A new standard aimed at protecting workers who install, alter or maintain communication towers offers the first comprehensive approach reducing injuries and saving lives in industry that has rapidly expanded in recent years, said the American Society of Safety Engineers.

MSHA is continuing its effort to prevent black lung disease among coal miners with its respirable dust standard, which took effect in 2014.