OSHA has issued new guidance clarifying when injuries involving personal rechargeable lithium-ion batteries must be recorded on employer injury and illness logs. In a Feb. 9 letter of interpretation, ...

New nationwide research finds that extreme heat is linked to thousands of workplace injuries each year, underscoring the need for a federal OSHA standard to protect workers. New research published ...

Millions of workers in the United States (US) are injured on the job annually. However, accurately determining the true rate of occupational injuries remains a challenge due to gaps in existing ...

LaTesha Smith was cleaning a station at BronxCare, a 859-bed hospital in the Claremont Village neighborhood of the Bronx, when a patient walked over to her and hit her on the side of the head. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There have been more than 3,600 severe injuries and deaths at nearly 2,000 Alabama employers over the last decade. Those injuries ...

The 2024 Injury Tracking Application (ITA) cycle marked a pivotal year for Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordkeeping and analytics. With expanded electronic reporting now ...

WASHINGTON – The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) should lead a collaborative effort with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Occupational Safety and Health ...

Agriculture is one of the most hazardous industries in this country, with more than 700 occupational fatalities and 120,000 work-related disabling injuries occurring annually. [1] Physically demanding ...

California’s worker safety agency is under-inspecting workplaces after accidents and worker injuries, failing to enforce labor regulations in a way that “may undermine” them because it does not have ...

There have been more than 3,600 severe injuries and deaths at nearly 2,000 Alabama employers over the last decade. Those injuries and deaths are spread across most of the state’s 67 counties. Poultry ...