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OSHA course to be held in Savannah to prepare participants for potential work place dangers. Savannah, Ga. (PRWEB) December 14, 2012 Georgia Tech Professional Education will provide an Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the General Industry (OTI 511) course at the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus on Jan. 22-25, 2013. The course teaches participants how to select the appropriate OSHA standards to prevent and contain hazardous situations. The Department of Labor through the...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- A new directive from the Department of Defense (DOD) will revolutionize the transition of military personnel back into civilian life, with increased opportunities for skills training and meaningful employment, according to the United Association of Plumbers, Pipefitters, Welders and HVAC Service Technicians (UA). Issued as mandatory guidelines to all service branches, this initiative will promote participation by military personnel in skills...
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RSL Fiber Systems LLC announced today that RSL and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have signed a licensing agreement that allows RSL to integrate the organization's visual warning system prototype into its fiber optic outlining illumination product line. The emerging technology will improve mine safety by reducing struck-by or pining accidents involving continuous mining machines. Mobile machinery...
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies that are required to meet consumer product safety laws and standards in the United States have a new avenue to help them build safer products: university-level product safety education courses. Taught at Saint Louis University's John Cook School of Business, the next course is a 2-day Product Risk Management workshop scheduled for February 4 & 5 that will teach safety professionals how to conduct product risk assessments...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Akros Silicon Inc., announces the immediate availability of the AS1860, the newest member of the company's GreenEdge(TM) family of system-on-a-chip (SoC) energy management ICs. The AS1860, equipped with Akros' proprietary GreenEdge digital isolation technology, is uniquely suited to support deployments of 60W and above Power over Ethernet (PoE) Powered Device (PD) applications such as thin clients, monitors, industrial Ethernet,...
LONDON, November 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leading Annual Safety and Health Event Builds on Success of Previous Years following Positive Industry Feedback The Safety & Health Expo returns to Birmingham's NEC from 14-16 May 2013 following the growth of the annual event earlier this year. With an increase in visitors, exhibitors, educational content and greater participation from exhibitors and visitors across the show floor, the...
LONDON, November 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's biggest professional health and safety organisation, IOSH, today announced details for its flagship annual conference and exhibition. IOSH 2013, which will again be organised by UBM Live, will focus on how health and safety professionals can strike the right balance between promoting wellbeing in the workplace and safe work practices. It will look at how practitioners can influence the strategy of organisations. And,...
CARY, N.C., Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Safety consulting firm Environmental Resource Center is offering training seminars and webcasts to help businesses and their workers understand and comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA's) newly revised Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). The HCS now aligns with the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) and requires employers to update employee hazcom...
Among a record 62 contest participants and industry competitors, KHA Online-MSDS wins OH&S Magazine’s New Product of the Year Contest (NPOY) in the category of MSDS Management. Orlando, FL (PRWEB) October 23, 2012 KHA Online-MSDS™, the original innovator of electronic MSDS management and global provider of choice for chemical management and regulatory compliance solutions, competed among a record 62 contest participants as well as industry competitors to win OH&S Magazine’s...
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 2012 NSC Congress & Expo -- Remedy Interactive, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise safety software solutions, today announced a new product that helps health and safety stakeholders optimize the utilization of data collected through job and task hazard analysis. Remedy Interactive's innovative Job Hazard Analysis solution provides managers with unmatched insights into the hazards affecting their workers' safety. With this new...
