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Lack of Safety Checks Leads to Dredger Capsize on Mississippi River, NTSB Reports
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Thursday that the capsizing of a dredging vessel on the Mississippi River last year was due to the company’s failure to mandate
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Joint Statement from the Commonwealth Trade Union Group (CTUG), Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) to mark International Workers' Memorial Day and the International Labour Organization's World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2024.
This year's theme ‘The impacts of climate change on occupational safety and health' seeks a drastic shift in political priorities, policy coherence and agenda setting to address climate change, occupational safety and health hazards and risks to workers. With occupational climate-related health risks expected to increase because of climate change, achieving a collective approach to deal with this global health crisis is not a quick fix. We come together to remember those who have sadly lost ()
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Healey weighs in on campus safety, protests
As tensions simmer around college campus protests and university responses, Gov. Maura Healey gave a mostly muted response to the proliferation of pro-Palestinian encampments, saying "there has to be" space for both protest and Jewish student safety alike.