LOS ANGELES – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced a new campaign led by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent deadly falls in the construction industry. The awareness campaign will provide employers and workers with life-saving information and educational materials about working safely from ladders, scaffolds and roofs. In 2010, more than 10,000 construction workers were injured as a result of falling while working from heights, and another 255 workers were killed.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued an alert* to employers and workers using the CSE Corporation's SR-100 Self-Contained Self-Rescuer (SCSR). Some of these devices have a critical defect that may cause the release of insufficient oxygen during start-up, a defect that could immediately result in a life-threatening situation for workers using the respirator.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced (April 5, 2012) a new National Emphasis Program for Nursing and Residential Care Facilities to protect workers from serious safety and health hazards that are common in medical industries. In 2010, according to the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, nursing and residential care facilities experienced one of the highest rates of lost workdays due to injuries and illnesses of all major American industries. The incidence rate for cases involving days away from work in the nursing and residential care sector was 2.3 times higher than that of all private industry as a whole, despite the availability of feasible controls to address hazards. Through this NEP, OSHA will target nursing homes and residential care facilities in an effort to reduce occupational illnesses and injuries.

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On March 20, 2012, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the revision of its Hazard Communication Standard, aligning it with the United Nations' global chemical labeling system (GHS). As it will take time for the manufacturers and distributors to bring their labeling under compliance, employers have until December 2013 to provide training to employees. For up to date information and OSHA's Fact Sheet on this issue, please visit http://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/index.html