Industry News

OSHA appear to finally be getting on the combustible dust bandwagon with stepped up enforcement against the merchants of death, companies that don't care about killing workers in the pursuit of profits.....

OSHA announces the development of a new Combustible Dust Standard.

Speaking about the merchants of death, the grain industry says they don't need any more regulation from OSHA, despite the fact they have had incidents as late as 2008, and again in 2008, 2009 and even 2010!..................................Don't confuse me with the facts, we gotta get rid of some more of these employees, the health care cost is killing us!.........................

Asbestos, the silent killer, also kills the business at the Daytona Pier, in the midst of a renovation...................

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is hanging on to NFPA's Life Safety Code as the federally mandated standard for new hospitals in spite of the International Code Adoptions. ICC says this is to the detriment of the future of the hospital industry. It looks like the simple solution would be to just make state alternatives easier to get approved.............................or to adopt the I-codes as the Federal standard!!!!...............Isn't that why we have the I-codes....because the Federal government was going to bully us into them anyway? I'm confused again........................

It's no help to the residential sprinkler effort, but Congress is considering a new bill that would give business owners incentives to intall fire sprinklers.......