Workplace safety, compliance and EHS news
A Frankfort, Illinois-based utility construction company faces $380,664 in Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fines for repeatedly exposing employees to excavation safety hazards after federal investigators observed employees working in an…
Companies need to treat upheaval “as both a cultural and operational issue,” a new report recommended.
The makeover of the city’s largest treatment plant, which handles nearly 80% of the area’s wastewater, will occur while the plant continues to operate.
The Metropolitan Airports Commission selected the general contractor to serve as construction manager at risk for an expansion project at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.
The professional services firm was the subject of a claim by a known ransomware actor.
A Columbus, Ohio, coatings supplier has failed so far to implement, or substantively respond to, safety recommendations from the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) following an April 2021 explosion and fire at the company’s Columbus…
The deadline for certain industrial facilities to prepare and submit emergency response plans for worst-case hazardous substance discharges into waterways has been extended by three years. The EPA issued a final rule on October 8 moving the compliance…
