At a special meeting on May 1, council passed six new safety policies tied to working alone, personal protective equipment, ...

The muffled roar of machinery ground to a halt as OSHA inspectors walked onto the floor of a Pennsylvania steel plant last month. Workers had secretly reached out to the agency weeks earlier, ...

According to federal prosecutors, Davis failed to get a thorough asbestos inspection before he began scrapping metal from pipes, boilers and turbines in the mill’s power house. He also failed ...

This open-pit mine, measuring 1,140 ft (350 m) deep and more than two sq miles (six sq km) in size, along with other mines, are said to have made Canada the largest exporter of asbestos back in ...

The local playground also lay empty as residents were worried about letting their children play there over any asbestos risk. Following an inspection by the officials from the council’s ...

The comptroller says P.S. 107 in Brooklyn has not had the required asbestos inspection since 2008. A spokesperson for New York City public schools says custodians are trained annually in asbestos ...

That led to an agreement: About 1,400 school buildings would get a special asbestos inspection every three years. But a map released by Lander’s office used a red dot to show a school that did ...

Not all states and localities require asbestos inspection or removal professionals to be licensed and accredited, but it’s a good idea to hire a pro who has received EPA training and ...

The timeframe for re-inspection is usually set ... farm staff should first read the HSE’s Asbestos Essentials. This provides a range of guidance sheets on the work that can and cannot be done ...

Beneath the streets of America’s Finest City, are nearly 2,000 miles of asbestos concrete pipes carrying drinking water to thousands of homes. “That is shocking and that blows my mind,” said ...

This work continues previous inspection campaigns that targeted hospitals and schools. The inspections will assess how local authorities are managing the risks from asbestos within their buildings and ...

for obstructing its proceedings by failing to provide a decisive response regarding the health risks posed to students by asbestos sheets in educational institutions. The tribunal called the ...