A study released by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health in collaboration with the University of Illinois has found recycling center workers are regularly exposed to safety hazards and have higher than average injury rates. The report, titled Safe & Sustainable Recycling: Protecting Workers Who Protect the Planet, the recycling industry has high fatality and injury rates due to unsafe working conditions around heavy machinery and exposure to hazardous mater

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety recently held a meeting to overhaul workplace safety rules relating to temporary workers. Temporary workers have high rates of workplace accidents due to poor training and negligent employers. The meeting made recommendations to improve research, compliance assistance and enforcement of workplace safety practices for temporary workers. OSHA has clarified that it is a

Engineers with Oregon State University are hoping to use a high-tech simulator to help construction workers train for jobs. By using a simulator, workers can be exposed to dangerous situations where they are allowed to make and learn from mistakes. So how would such an advanced simulator work? The surroundings would have to be extremely detailed, and the simulation would use a high-definition projection system to mimic the reality of a construction site. High definition scree

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has delayed enacting rules that would strengthen worker protections against beryllium, a naturally occurring but dangerous metal. Workers in the aerospace, construction and electronics industries are most at risk for beryllium exposure. Long-term exposure to beryllium can lead to chronic beryllium disease, a permanent lung condition. OSHA regulators have spent the last eight months preparing a proposal that would reduce