KUALA LUMPUR, March 6 (Bernama) -- The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in collaboration with the Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM), today launched a free ...

Long work hours, coupled with the high physical and emotional strain associated with emergency response and recovery operations, can prevent responders from getting enough sleep and puts them, and ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The push for safer workplaces is expected to see significant improvements this year with the implementation of several programmes, which include free training for employees of small and ...

NIOSH is facing the largest proportional budget cut of all the occupational safety and health agencies in the proposed FY 2003 budget, and OSHA's training programs could take a significant hit as well ...

On March 31, 2016, a 32-year-old male career fire fighter cadet (the Cadet) participated in SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) maze training inside a “survival house.” The training was the ...

NIOSH investigators spoke of the importance of incident command and management and firefighters receiving training on Mayday following a probe of a 2010 blaze that claimed a Texas captain, who asked ...

This week, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the U.S. Coast Guard announced funding for safety research and training for commercial fishing. “These grants directly ...

CHAMPAIGN, IL – Over the last three days, 12 firefighters and 10 instructors have been taking part in live burns as researchers collect data for a new study the effects of firefighter training on ...