Workplace safety and health experts from around the world discussed the importance of a more integrated and interconnected approach to workplace safety and health at the Singapore Workplace Safety and Health Conference 2014. The Singapore Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Conference 2014, “Integrating Safety and Health: Towards a Holistic Approach,” focused on key areas such
Read more →Prevention of violence in the workplace or at schools is a group effort, according to one retired physician who also happened to suffer from a mental illness. It seems like there’s at least one publicized act of violence at a workplace or school every week or so. Shootings at Fort Hood, the Washington Navy Yard
Read more →While America is no stranger to fatal mining accidents, it’s been decades since the nation has experienced one on the scale of the Soma, Turkey, disaster. According to MSHA, the worst mining accident in U.S. history occurred in 1907 at the Fairmont Coal Co.’s Monongah, W.Va., mine, where an explosion killed 362 men and boys.
Read more →The worst mining disaster in Turkey’s history has sparked anti-government protests, a 24-hour strike and calls for the prime minister to resign. Officials are blaming the disaster – which has killed at least 282 miners – on a power-transformer explosion that triggered a fire deep inside the mine. Many of the miners reportedly died of
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