Suit yourself for safety

A new safety suit can sound alarm bells the moment it is damaged and make working in hazardous environments safer

Vacancy for a FALL GUY

A narrow escape from the fate of a scapegoat -- also called an accidental director

Setback for e-workers

The Radium Girls

Jharkhand mine collapse: 11 workers killed; over 50 feared trapped

Rescue operations still on, exact number of trapped miners yet to be ascertained

China

In Focus

Safety takes back seat to big bucks

China's industrial units have become death traps, as entrepreneurs on the run for a quick buck pay little heed to their workers' safety

Explosion kills young girls

14 Years Later..

...there's a Bhopal waiting to happen in the nooks and corners of the country. But the government is yet to take the right steps to ensure the …

Industrial safety meet spotlights India

Highlights of the 13th World Congress on Occupational Safety and Health.

Breathing room

Breach bared

Dam tunnel collapse in Arunachal begs explanation

Corporate care for mine workers

A rug over Bombay High fire?

Norms for coal mines

Explosion kills 24

Ship-breaking set to get a fillip despite blaze in Gujarat yard

Occupational hazard: Exposure to ionising radiation affects over 24 million workers globally

Behavioural risk factors plays an important role in the worldwide cancer burden and 44% of global cancer deaths are preventable  

Haunted past

The Union Carbide concealed information about radiation levels in a uranium plant for 20 years. Murky details are coming to light now

US asbestos industry seeks escape clause in law

Asbestos-related litigation in the us runs into billions of dollars today. So much so that the amount is estimated to exceed the combined cost of …

Life in a radiation zone

A recent accident shows why workers’ safety at atomic facilities is extremely fragile

"The management did not adhere to safety norms"

It is 15 years since 60 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) leaked outfrom Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) plant in Bhopal, killing 5,000 people …

Mechanisation of mining operations still an idea in India

Safety the major casualty in mining

Sri Lanka becomes first country in South Asia to recycle compact fluorescent lamps

At a time when developing countries are struggling with safe disposal of compact fluorescent lamps, Sri Lanka is leading by example