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Special Friday Five: Digital and Life-Size Sign Edition
Athlete Johanly Garcia, featured on a billboard as part of the BSA’s Boston Scholar Athlete program. Friday, April 20, 2012 — Boston Public School Athletes Featured on Billboards The Boston Scholar Athlete program just launched a billboard campaign to spread the word about its work in nineteen of the city’s public schools. A total of […]
Lights Out in the City That Never Sleeps
April 3, 2012 — Times Square and the people who fill it are among the most fundamental sights to be seen in the Big Apple. Amidst the bustle of ticket-hawkers and Naked Cowboy photo opportunists, tourists cluster to stare up at the billboards above Times Square. The gaudy advertisements twinkle around the clock, flashing messages […]
OSHA Finds Carcinogens on Your New Subway Line
March 21, 2012 — Fresh on the heels of FACE’s 2011 report on state-by-state workplace fatalities comes shocking news of an excessive amount of the known carcinogen silica in an underground construction site — for a New York City subway. The 2nd Avenue subway line is an exciting expansion to a subway system that doesn’t […]
FACE Releases 2011 Workplace Fatalities Report: Good News for Washington State
March 15, 2012 — Washington State reported only 15 workplace deaths this year, a record low, a study released yesterday shows. The Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (FACE), hosted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at the Centers for Disease Control, evaluates participating states to increase safety at the workplace. This […]
OSHA Fines Aluminum Manufacturer for Endangering Worker Safety
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 — Fritz Aluminum Services Inc, an aluminum fabrication company located in Eustis, Florida, is about to pay the price for willfully endangering its employees by exposing them to a myriad of safety and health hazards. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is banging down the moneyed […]
OSHA Issues 23 Health and Safety Violations for Pet Food Production Company; Fines Exceed $750,000
Imagine dealing with a factory or workplace explosion caused by combustible dust, of all things. Unfortunately, this situation does happen, jeopardizing the safety of others and inducing significant damage costs. OSHA has increased initiatives to penalize violators who do not do their best to follow the organization’s standards when it comes to air protection and […]
New York Uses Poetry to Make Roads Safer for Pedestrians
The New York City Transportation Department is resorting to some interesting measures to decrease risks for pedestrians – 144 of them, to be exact. Featuring 12 designs from the artist John Morse, the new signs of the Curbside Haiku campaign will remind New York City’s budding poetry lovers to watch the road when crossing it. […]