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Fatal Occupational Injuries in Massachusetts 2008-2013

This report provides a comprehensive summary of fatal occupational injuries in Massachusetts during 2008–2013. It includes a comparison of the occup...

New York FACE Report: Two Construction Workers Fatally Crushed when Cement Formwork Collapsed

On December 2, 2013, a 53-year-old construction laborer and a 50-year-old concrete pump operator suffered fatal crushing injuries when formwork collap...

Unmanned aerial vehicles in construction and worker safety

This article in the Journal of Industrial Medicine examines the occupational safety and health implications, both positive and negative, of the dramat...

New NIOSH software for monitoring H&S of emergency responders

NIOSH Emergency Response and Preparedness Office (EPRO) has created a free software platform called ERHMS Info Manager™ to track and monitor emergen...

OSHA Resources for Hurricane Response and Recovery

OSHA has many safety and health resources on its webpages for hurricane and flood response and recovery. To make it easier to find information by haza...

Excavation Safety- Instructor Version

Oregon OSHA published this instructor training guide on excavation that uses workbook pages accompanied by instructor note pages as a tool for trainin...

Michigan FACE Information Sheet: Look for Mobile Equipment Blind Spots

This Michigan Fatality Assessment and Control Report reviews fatal back-up injuries caused by vehicle blind spots and presents measures for prevention...

Issue Brief: Results from the Survey on Working Women

This issue brief published by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau highlights the findings of the 2016 survey that was conducted to ident...

Oregon FACE Report: Collapsed roof trusses kill carpenter foreman

The Oregon Fatalaty Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (OR-FACE) developed recommneations following the death of a carpenter when roof trusses...

Oregon OSHA: Tools and Techniques for Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)

This Oregon OSHA document guides employees and supervisors through a workshop that uses several examples of Job Hazard Analyses to teach them how to i...