Workplace safety is a constant balance between the costs of preventative measures and industry’s need for productivity and profitability. As a case study of this tradeoff, the asbestos tragedy offers ...

There are many regulations regarding asbestos. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), and the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) all ...

Federal safety regulators plan to levy a $127,600 fine against Oak Brook-based A.M. Castle& Co., alleging that workers at a company site in Franklin Park “were exposed to asbestos during the removal ...

Occupational asbestos exposure impacts more than a million Americans each year.1 Once hailed a “wonder material,” asbestos served a central role in American commercial product manufacturing and ...