The Occupational Safety and Health Administration implemented its Laboratory Standard in 1990 – it is a performance standard designed to protect employees working in laboratories. It required ...

The chemical process industries have felt the pressure of global economic shifts more than most in recent years, forcing many to look for new ways to enhance efficiency and output [1]. Increasing ...

Chemical safety is a critically important topic that covers the handling and use of chemicals in a way that is safe for humans and the environment. It includes risk assessment and education in ...

On a summer night in 2023, an explosion at one of Louisiana’s biggest petrochemical complexes sent a plume of fire into the sky. More explosions followed as poison gas spewed from damaged tanks at the ...

Since 1998, the Chemical Safety Board has played a key role in probing the causes of major chemical accidents. advertisement. The Washington Post. White House proposes shutting down chemical ...

The Trump administration has proposed to shut down the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), an independent federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents ...

But the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board will likely shut down before completing its probes of the Dow explosion and other such incidents across the country.

America’s vaccine advisory committee is now taking seriously a baseless anti-vaccine flash point.

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Last year, the Biden administration banned chrysotile asbestos, which the EPA called a milestone in the fight against cancer.

An investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board found preventable safety failures in three incidents at the Honeywell Geismar plant, including an employee's death in 2021.