This week, a couple of dozen teenagers from Southern California are participating in Young Worker Leadership Academy at the University of California, Los Angeles. The three-day academy, Feb. 16-18, teaches them about job safety and labor laws, and follows a similar academy in January for Northern California youth. Both groups will create public awareness campaigns …
A UCLA researcher has taken the first step in assessing the potential toxicity of a new and promising technology – nanomaterials. Nanotechnology is expected to become a $1 trillion industry within 10 years, leading some to say it will exceed the impact of the industrial revolution. The technology manipulates atoms to form tiny molecules that …
A popular and important Web-based training tool has been restructured to aid Spanish-speaking construction workers. OSHA recently posted a new version of its construction eTool (eTool de Construcció – La Prevenció De Fatalidades) that will help employers and workers identify and avoid hazards that commonly cause the most serious injuries in construction including electrical, falls, …
The 12th annual AgSafe conference virtually took over the Embassy Suites Hotel in Seaside for its three-day run, attesting to the growing popularity of this educational event and trade show. Attendance increased from about 480 last year to more than 500 agriculturalists for the 2006 conference. AgSafe has grown steadily from about 100 attendees in …
In our Jan. 27 story, “February’s Coming – Form 300A Post Time,” we stated that this month begins the three-month period for posting employers’ summaries of work-related injuries and illnesses for 2004. Of course, we meant to say 2005. The posting period is for Form 300A for the preceding year. Our apologies for the error.
A 34-year-old heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) installer was killed Feb. 3 in Woodland Hills when an HVAC unit mooring failed and the unit swung loose, striking the worker and knocking him off the ladder from which he was working. The worker was employed by Climate Changes, Inc., and was part of a crew …
SEASIDE – Research by Stanford University biologists aimed at helping recovering surgery patients and sweltering soldiers has yielded a relatively simple device that could prove to be a potent field application against heat illness. By simply drawing heat through the body’s natural “radiators,” athletes have been shown to increase their performance by about 30 percent, …
SEASIDE – To meet the challenges of the 21st century, safety and health professionals need to reach across national boundaries and construct a “global paradigm” that takes a holistic view of the workplace, said Dr. John Howard in the keynote address at the recent AgSafe conference. Dr. Howard, who spent more than a decade as …