Samsung Faces Probe After Two Chip Workers Exposed to Radiation May 29, 2024 By Yoolim Lee South Korea’s nuclear safety authorities are carrying out an on-site investigation after two employees at a Samsung Electronics Co. semiconductor...
Cal/OSHA Beefing Up Safety Enforcement to Protect Workers Against Silicosis May 21, 2024 California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health reports seeing growing number of silicosis cases among stone workers in California, and...
Deadly US Oil Blast Exposes Risks of Pushing Profits Over Safety May 17, 2024 By Chunzi Xu and Robert Tuttle The explosion that rocked Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s Galveston Bay oil refinery one year ago trapped Rigoberto Guillen 75 feet in...
California Workplace Violence Law a Best Practice No Matter What State You’re in May 14, 2024 By Matt Doherty California Senate Bill 553 is groundbreaking legislation that aims to prevent workplace violence and enhance employee safety and security in...
California Construction Company Fined $371K for Fatal Trench Collapse May 10, 2024 Cal/OSHA cited D’Arcy & Harty Construction Inc. $371,100 for failing to protect employees working in a trench excavation at a...
Death Toll From Italian Hydroelectric Plant Explosion Rises to 7 April 15, 2024 Divers in northern Italy have recovered the last two bodies of workers killed by an explosion that collapsed and flooded...
Deadly Blast at Enel Plant in Italy Came Amid Maintenance Work April 10, 2024 By Antonio Vanuzzo and Alberto Brambilla A deadly explosion at an Enel SpA hydropower facility in northern Italy that left at least three people dead occurred...
Suncor’s Syncrude Canada to Pay C$390,000 After Worker Fatality April 9, 2024 By Nia Williams Oil sands producer Syncrude Canada, majority-owned by Suncor Energy, will pay C$390,000 ($287,187.04) after pleading guilty to a health and...
Phoenix Ordinance Adds Rules to Protect Workers from Extreme Heat April 3, 2024 With hundreds of heat related deaths in and around Phoenix, Arizona last year, a new city ordinance has taken a...
California Work Safety Board Approves Indoor Heat Rules, But Another State Agency Raises Objections March 25, 2024 As global warming raises temperatures, a California work safety board has approved standards that would require companies to protect employees...