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With efforts to strengthen criminal penalties in the Occupational Safety and Health Act so far unsuccessful, safety advocates recommend prosecuting egregious safety violators under other statutes with stronger penalties.

In what Italian Health Minister Renato Balduzzi called a “historic” decision, an Italian court recently convicted two executives of failing to comply with safety rules and sentenced them to serve 16 years behind bars.

Abuse of prescription painkillers has become a crisis in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and its effect may be beginning to be felt in the workers’ compensation system.

Although the recession may have caused workers’ compensation costs to decline for employers, experts warn increased rates could be coming up.

Instruments and monitors are the product focus.

To combat the possibility of workers forming an addiction to painkillers, experts recommend that employers keep in touch with the injured worker and get the employee back to work as soon as possible.

E2S Warning Signals announces a major extension to the capability of the EEx d versions of its BEx family of Explosion Proof beacons and its MB Series of Marine beacons.

This Time Delay Control Switch Relay provides a safe and effective means of mitigating arc flash danger in local circuit breaker operations by allowing for a manually initiated time-delayed trip or close.

How can safety managers measure, and then impact, workplace safety cultures?

Knowing fall clearance is critical when selecting proper fall protection equipment, what do I need to consider?