If you’ve not heard of it yet, quit living under a rock and smell the drying nail polish. It’s easy, it’s fun, it’s absolutely gorgeous! It’s called nail stamping. That’s the name of one of the latest crazes to come out of Glam World and without a doubt it’s the most eye-catching of all the…

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered the Norfolk Southern Railway Co. to pay three whistleblowers a whopping $802,168.70 in damages, including $525,000 in punitive damages and attorneys’ fees, for the unlawful, retaliatory dismissals of the three. Although OSHA training—for instance, OSHA 10 training and OSHA 30 training—is now required by many employers,…

Some employers never learn. In Wooster, Ohio, truck manufacturer Stahl/Scott Fetzer Co. had just been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for six safety violations that had led to the accidental amputation of several fingers of an employee, when just a month later a second amputation accident occurred at the same plant….

Lead-spitting six-shooters and the Wild West may be dusty history, but lead—that neurotoxic (and carcinogenic) heavy metal of lore and now—is still very much around, thanks to unknowing operators of gun ranges. Recently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed a hefty penalty of $111,000 for Illinois Gun Works Ltd. for a whopping 28…

“This employer knowingly put workers at risk of injury or death by failing to implement well-recognized measures that would protect employees from physical assaults by inmates,” said Clyde Payne, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) area director in Jackson, Mississippi, in castigating The GEO Group Inc., a correctional and detention organization, for its many…

Capitalizing on an ever-strengthening trend of growth in the healthcare industry nationwide, with new healthcare jobs projected to hit close to 536,000 by 2020, the New York State Department of Health, the New York eHealth Collaborative, and the New York City Investment Fund have kicked off a $4.2-million program to spur health IT innovation, create…

Whether or not President Obama’s embattled healthcare reform law clears the Supreme Court, no doubt the healthcare industry is booming as it should. And it will continue to do so, according to a new report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and Workforce, till past year 2020, 5.6 million new healthcare jobs later. The demand…

Where’s the fire? The question, sans the cynicism, has gotten a makeover from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) with its release of a new standard for fire prevention and mitigation. The new ISO standard, ISO 16732-1 (Fire safety engineering – Fire risk assessment – Part 1: General), is intended for fire-safety practitioners to help…

It’s not the best news for life insurers and professionals with a life insurance license, but a recent industry survey has found out that over two-thirds of chief financial officers at North American life insurers expect interest rates to stay in the doldrums for at least three more years. Life insurers critically depend on the…

The life insurance industry and professionals who have a life insurance license have good reason to cheer this time of the year. According to insurancenewsnet.com, applications for life insurance are still trending up, increasing in May by 1.3 percent year-over-year (all ages). The figure is based on the popular MIB Life Index, the life insurance…

It sounds rather gross but “meat glue” has been part of the dining experience for quite a while now, much like Texas Food Handlers or a Food Manager Certification Texas has been an integral component of food safety in protecting public health. Meat glue, like it or not, is the discreet but ubiquitous meat addend that…

Remember Jensen Farms, the grower whose cantaloupes caused last year’s multistate Listeria outbreak that killed 36 people and sickened 146 others? The company has made it known that it is going to settle the cases ranged against it since the outbreak, the country’s worst in a century as far as fatalities are concerned. Listeria contamination…

If you got it, flaunt it. Reprising the old battle cry in glam world, master hairstylist Damien Carney of the Drab-to-Fab fame, threw down a challenge to all would-be upstylists to showcase their styling skills on video for a chance to jet off to Hollywood and cross snippers in the Drab to Fab episode with…

The grooming-and-beauty-care industry is finally having a greater say in what goes into the products salon workers use every day in salons and other personal-grooming shops nationwide. This after the Cosmetic Safety Amendments Act of 2012 (H.R. 4395), introduced by Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ), gained more traction not just in Congress but in the industry…

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has done something special—it has compiled on a CD the entire ISO 14000 family of environmental management standards, throwing in for good measure a collection of publications related to sustainability. For many countries ISO 14000—and especially the environmental management framework ISO 14001 (a member of the ISO 14000 family)…