News from March 2015
By Fed Newswire | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve on Monday released details for participation in two task forces described in its recently published "Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System" paper. The Faster Payments Task Force and Secure Payments Task Force are open to all interested stakeholders with relevant payment knowledge and experience who can commit the required time and resources to these key initiatives.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD, Ill. — Once again, workers were exposed to dangerous amputation hazards during maintenance and while processing scrap metal because safety mechanisms were not in place at Behr Iron & Steel facilities in Rockford and Peoria. The September 2014 inspections by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration yielded penalties of $366,400 for five willful and nine serious safety violations, including fall and confined space hazards.
![OSHA News Release: World Kitchen exposes Corning, New York, employees to fire, fall, electrical, mechanical and other hazards, OSHA finds [03/16/2015]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/87/77/11410067/webp_adobestock_251268502.webp)
By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. — World Kitchen LLC makes dinnerware for well-known brand names, such as Corelle and CorningWare. Less well-known is that workers at the company's Corning manufacturing plant have been exposed to a variety of hazards that put their health and safety at risk.
![OSHA News Release: Bowling center worker dies after his hooded sweatshirt catches in pinsetter [03/16/2015]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/51/aa/11410098/webp_adobestock_308631683.webp)
By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: FAIRFIELD, Ohio — A 53-year-old bowling alley worker was asphyxiated when his hooded sweatshirt was caught in a pinsetter at Northwest Lanes in Fairfield because the machine's operating parts were improperly exposed, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found.
![OSHA News Release: New York City Transit Authority retaliates against employee for participating in safety inspection and filing complaint, OSHA finds [03/16/2015]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/dc/b3/11410094/webp_adobestock_302181503.webp)
By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK — It began as a routine safety inspection in August 2012 at the New York City Transit Authority's Linden Shop maintenance facility in Brooklyn. It ended with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration finding that the transit authority and one of its supervisors ...
![MSHA News Release: Mine Safety's Main reviews five years of progress at National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association meeting [03/16/2015]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/b4/54/11410055/webp_adobestock_204335772.webp)
By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. — Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health Joseph A. Main told members at the annual convention of the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association in Baltimore today that mining industry improvements in the past five years have laid the foundation for better protections ...
![EBSA News Release: Obama administration publishes final rule on excepted benefits [03/16/2015]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/2f/cf/11410059/webp_adobestock_198806990.webp)
By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury have published final rules to amend the definition of excepted benefits to include certain limited coverage that wraps around individual health insurance. Such coverage would have to be specifically designed to provide ...
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
The US Energy Department published a three page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 16, 2015
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 16, 2015
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 16, 2015
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 16, 2015
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 16, 2015
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
