COVID-19 pandemic: OSHA safety alert focuses on workplace ventilation

Washington — Aimed at ensuring proper ventilation in indoor workplaces amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a new OSHA safety alert lists measures employers and building managers should take. Read more

'Multiple perspectives': CSB releases first 'learning review' on combustible dust

Washington — Managing and controlling combustible dust should be considered a unique hazard – not simply "tidying up the place," the Chemical Safety Board says in a recently released learning review document that includes input from workers and industry stakeholders. Read more

EPA requests input on proposed significant new use rules for 45 chemicals

Washington — The Environmental Protection Agency, in accordance with the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, is seeking comment on proposed "significant new use" rules for 45 chemical substances that are subject to agency premanufacture notices. Read more

OSHA, PHMSA request comment ahead of UN meetings on GHS, transport of hazardous goods

Washington — OSHA and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration will host virtual public meetings Nov. 19 in preparation for a pair of United Nations meetings. Read more

New method of detecting combustible dust uses real-time imaging

West Lafayette, IN — Using newly developed algorithms, researchers from Purdue University have designed an image- and video-based application to detect combustible dust concentrations suspended in the air. Read more

EPA reverses course, determines TSCA chemical presents 'unreasonable risk'

Washington — In a reversal of preliminary findings that the chemical substance Pigment Violet 29 poses no unreasonable risk of injury to humans or the environment, the Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public comment on a revised draft risk evaluation that states the chemical substance presents unreasonable risk to workers under certain conditions, according to a notice published in the Oct. 30 Federal Register. Read more

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