At least 150 heat-related deaths have been recorded across the United States this year, and that was before the fossil-fuel-turbocharged heat wave in late July. Hundreds of earlier deaths remain under ...

A new tool to understand how people imagine differently when reading has potential implications for treating mental health ...

A portrait of the lucrative drug-treatment industry; a memoir of a female firefighter; debut fiction from an Emmy-winning TV writer; and a brand new Karin Slaughter thriller.

By Imogen Howse A book borrowed from a UK library was found abandoned 330 miles away on the Paris Metro - before being ...

Last summer, the United States took a crucial step towards protecting millions of workers across the country from the impacts ...

“The NEO Safety Expo is our way of continuing what the BWC started, while modernizing it to reflect today’s workplace challenges,” said David Costantino, executive consultant at On Demand Occupational ...

Failure to provide and maintain a workplace and the necessary equipment, systems and tools to ensure worker safety. Failure to provide the information, instruction, training, supervision and ...

Irving Shipbuilding is facing five occupational health and safety charges stemming from the February 2024 death of a worker during snow clearing at the company’s large shipyard along Halifax ...

Lucian L. Leape, a surgeon whose insights into medical mistakes in the 1990s gave rise to the field of patient safety, rankling much of the health care establishment in the process, died on Monday ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the government organization in charge of keeping workers safe, has defined six main categories of occupational hazards: Safety.

and The Johns Hopkins Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health are collaborating to present a virtual series titled “Building safety programs for community and museum ...

NIOSH was started in 1970 as part of the same law that created another federal agency called the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA.