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Apr 17, 2019

The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.

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(NewYorkTimes) Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test ...
Apr 12, 2019

Post Fukushima - 23 countries still have bans on food imports from Japan because of the nuclear incident.

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In 2015, the Japanese government filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization. Japan said all the seafood it ships is safe because it...
Apr 10, 2019

U.S. Green Building Council Launches LEED v4.1

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Source (PAINT.ORG) On April 2,  the U.S. Green Building Council ( USGBC ) announced that the new version of the LEED green building progra...

Update: Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule

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Source (PAINT.ORG) In response to a number of Supreme Court cases that have complicated what constitutes WOTUS, or the "waters of t...

EPA Publishes List of 40 Chemicals for Prioritization Review under Amended TSCA

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(Source PAINT.ORG) On March 21, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register its list of 40 candidate ...

Update: AIM VOC Rulemakings in New York, Colorado and California

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From (PAINT.ORG) Colorado and New York are proposing to adopt the Northeast Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) Phase II model rule limitin...
Apr 9, 2019

A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy

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" In the United States, two million people contract resistant infections annually, and 23,000 die from them, according to the of...
Apr 8, 2019

Giant Daily Drivers and Cellphones have U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Still Climbing

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According to the National Highway Association, 6,227 people were killed on the road last year, more than any year since 1990. The upward t...
Apr 5, 2019

OSHA's Occupational Medicine Resident Elective

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The Office of Occupational Medicine and Nursing (OOMN) in OSHA serves as an instructional site for current resident physicians who ar...
Apr 3, 2019

OSHA’s new webpage Available on Radiation Emergencies

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SHA's new webpage on   radiation emergency preparedness   is intended to help protect the health and safety of workers during situations...
Apr 2, 2019

DOE Announces Up to $26.1 Million to Advance Hydropower and Marine Energy

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Daniel Simmo...
Apr 1, 2019

Trader Joe’s Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics Nationwide Following Customer Petition

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By Madison Dapcevich As the world suffocates from its  plastic  addiction, a growing number of businesses are stepping up to the plate to re...
Mar 21, 2019

EPA Identifies 40 Chemicals to Prioritize for Risk Evaluation

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WASHINGTON   — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing a list of 40 chemicals to begin the prioritization proces...
Mar 18, 2019

Preventing Illness from Silica Dust

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Workers in construction and manufacturing jobs are often exposed to respirable crystalline silica, which is released when cutting or drillin...
Mar 6, 2019

Attorneys Implore Judge to Keep Sailors’ Fukushima Case in U.S.

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SAN DIEGO (CN) – Former Senator John Edwards and his co-counsel implored a federal judge Wednesday not to dismiss claims from U.S. service m...

NEW Anthropologist-led FEMA Report on national preparedness

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The publication of a new 38-page FEMA Report, Building Cultures of Preparedness, an initiative funded by FEMA Higher Education to present re...
Feb 27, 2019

New HHS-sponsored research provides new tool and updated guidance on mass chemical decontamination

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More than a million first responders and emergency managers in the United States now have a science-based chemical decontamination  decision...

EPA Releases First Major Update to Chemicals List in 40 Years

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PAINT.ORG   On Feb. 19, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an update of the  Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventor...
Feb 12, 2019

OSHA Signs Charter for Working Group to Improve Chemical Facility Security and Safety

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The Department of Labor, Department of Homeland Security, and the Environmental Protection Agency recently created and signed the Chemical F...

New FAQs Available on Controlling Silica in General Industry

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OSHA posted new frequently asked questions (FAQs) on the standard for respirable crystalline silica in general industry. OSHA developed the ...

OSHA Issues Final Rule to Protect Privacy of Workers

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OSHA has issued a  final rule  that eliminates the requirement for establishments with 250 or more employees to submit information electroni...
Jan 16, 2019

House Passes 2-year Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Reauthorization Bill, Senate to take up Bill

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(paint.org) On Jan. 8, a bill to reauthorize for two years the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program, administered by t...
Jan 2, 2019

OSHA Proposes Revised Beryllium Standard for General Industry

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OSHA issued a  proposed rule  on Dec. 10 to revise the  beryllium standard  for general industry. The proposed changes are designed to clari...

751 viewsDec 20, 2018, 01:54pm 'Groundhog Day' Work Fatalities: How They Died In 2017 Tells Us How To Survive In 2019

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(Forbes) The "employee experience," as we're currently branding it, covers a lot of ground. Individualization, compensation, w...
Dec 19, 2018

Federal Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposure

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The Federal Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposure (Action Plan) is a blueprint for reducing lead exposure and associated harms throu...
Dec 1, 2018

Podcasts: Carbon Monoxide: Odorless, Colourless, and Deadly

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This month's  Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safet  podcasts include Carbon Monoxide: Odorless, Colourless, and Deadly a...
Nov 30, 2018

CDC Warns of Exotic Tick Spreading Across the U.S.

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The Centers for Disease Control announced Thursday that the Asian longhorned tick—a species that mysteriously traveled thousands of miles ac...
Nov 29, 2018

Make sure your home is fire safe for the holidays — safety tips from ReadyWisconsin

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ReadyWisconsin  — As families decorate their homes for the holiday season,  keep fire safety in mind. "Decorations can help to brighten...