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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it is withdrawing its proposed interpretation titled “Interpretation of OSHA’s Provisions for Feasible Administrative or Engineering Controls of Occupational Noise.” 

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a new directive withdrawing a former one that allowed residential builders to bypass fall protection requirements.

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, has appointed Jim Maddux as the new director of the agency’s Directorate of Construction, effective Monday, Dec. 20, 2010.

This unique three-day course provides construction safety and health professionals with the next-level knowledge required to successfully manage a company-wide safety program.

The next �鶹��ý Safety Management Training Course (SMTC) is being offered February 1-3, 2011, in Omaha, Neb. The course provides intensive instruction on the basic skills needed to manage a safety program within a company.  Participants will receive instruction and training that will allow them to return to their firms with readily applicable new skills. 

On November 15, 2010, Senator Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), Ranking Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, sent a letter to the Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis expressing concerns over the direction of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

�鶹��ý is now accepting nominations to the 12th Annual Construction Safety Excellence Awards (CSEA).  CSEA is the industry’s elite safety excellence awards program, recognizing companies that have developed and implemented premier safety and loss prevention programs.

�鶹��ý Safety & Health Conference - January 12-14, 2011, New Orleans, LA

Statement of Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis onreported decline in workplace injuries and illnesses

The �鶹��ý Safety Management Training Course (SMTC) provides attendees three days of training on the basic skills needed to manage a company safety program in the construction industry.The program builds on Focus Four training and prepares candidates to manage key safety issues on the job site and provides techniques for delivering basic safety training to field personnel.Participants will receive intenstive instruction and training that will allow them to return to their firms with readily aplicable new skills to positively impact their comapny' safety and health program.  For details, please click on: http://www.agc.org/cs/safety_management_training_course