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NAOSH Week serves as an important reminder of the significance of workplace safety and health and offers an opportunity for employers, employees, and safety professionals to come together to promote these values. Before NAOSH Week, ASSP holds a children's "safety-on-the-job" poster contest to teach children about the significance of workplace ...
OSHA has strategic partnership and alliance programs to develop guidelines, assist in compliance, share resources, and educate workers in OHS. [93] OSHA manages Susan B. Harwood grants to non-profit organizations to train workers and employers to recognize, avoid, and prevent safety and health hazards in the workplace. [160]
World Day for Safety and Health at Work is a UN international day that is celebrated every April 28. It is concerned about safe work and awareness of the dimensions and consequences of work-related accidents and diseases; to place occupational safety and health (OSH) on the international and national agendas; and to provide support to the national efforts for the improvement of national OSH ...
OSHA's protection applies to all federal agencies. Section 19 of the OSH Act makes federal agency heads responsible for providing safe and healthful working conditions for their workers. OSHA conducts inspections of federal facilities in response to workers' reports of hazards and under programs that target high-hazard federal workplaces. [8]
A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river (REUTERS)
Aviation experts said it was still safe to fly despite, increased fears about air travel in the aftermath of two recent plane crashes. (Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group)
I hope everything’s safe and fine,’” said Dr. Gail Saltz, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. But it’s not that simple for everyone.
Long title: An Act to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women; by authorizing enforcement of the standards developed under the Act; by assisting and encouraging the States in their efforts to assure safe and healthful working conditions; by providing for research, information, education, and training in the field of occupational safety and health; and for other ...