Business Wire

  1. National Institute For Occupational Safety And Health And Brush Wellman Inc. Honored For 10-Year Worker Safety Initiative Partnership 7/29/2008
    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and Brush Wellman Inc. (BWI) are being honored for their research partnership. Over the past 10 years NIOSH and BWI have worked together to conduct research and develop, test and communicate a new model for working safely with beryllium and beryllium-containing materials
  2. GE's HardFiber System Dramatically Reduces Protection And Control Installation And Maintenance Costs By Up To 50% Through Eliminating Copper Wiring 7/16/2008
    GE Digital Energy announces the Multilin HardFiber System which eliminates the need for thousands of copper wires in a substation and replaces them with a few fiber optic cables
  3. Heat Illness Prevention Outreach And Enforcement Intensify In 2008, Cal/OSHA Statistics Show 7/15/2008
    Outreach and education events aimed at protecting workers from heat illness have increased over the first six months of this year as has enforcement of the nation’s first heat illness prevention regulations, according to figures released by the Department of Industrial Relation’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OHSA)
  4. CDC, Premier Healthcare Alliance Work To Eliminate Occupational Needlestick Injuries 7/9/2008
    More than 385,000 needlestick and other sharps-related injuries are sustained annually by hospital-based healthcare personnel, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates, with countless others occurring in nursing homes, outpatient clinics, physician offices and emergency care services
  5. 3M Completes Acquisition Of Quest Technologies Inc. 7/8/2008
    3M announced recently that it has completed its acquisition of Quest Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of environmental monitoring equipment, including noise, heat stress and vibration monitors. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
  6. PetersenDean Roofing And Solar Systems Recognized For Safety By Cal/OSHA 7/3/2008
    PetersenDean Roofing and Solar Systems, the nation’s largest, privately-owned roofing and solar company, today announced it has received three Golden Gate Partnership Recognition awards from the California Occupational Health and Safety Administration during the past month, bringing to five the total number of times the company has been recognized for the effectiveness of its workplace safety and health programs over the past six months
  7. Shaw Recognized For Safety Excellence At Power Plant Project 6/16/2008
    The Shaw Group Inc. announced today that the Fossil Division of its Power Group has received the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) STAR designation from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA) for excellence in occupational safety and health at the Cleco Rodemacher 3 power plant project