The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) invites interested parties to a facilitated discussion about the agency’s updated draft Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines on Wednesday, December 9, 2015, from 1-3 p.m. at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Frances Perkins Building in Washington, DC.

Carbon monoxide-rich exhaust gases from steel plants are only being reclaimed to a minor extent as power or heat. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed a new recycling process for this materially unused carbon resource.

Green Seal™, the nation’s first independent nonprofit certifier of sustainable products and services, has introduced a revised version of its GS-11 Standard that is expanded to cover most types of architectural coatings on the market today.

The American Coatings Association (ACA) announced that its 2014 American Coatings SHOW (ACS) was awarded top honors in two categories at the recent Trade Show News Network (TSNN) Awards in Atlanta.

The 32^nd Biennial Western Coatings Symposium and Show was held in Las Vegas October 25-28. The event registered over 1,100 attendees, and including exhibitors and speakers, overall attendance was over 1,360 people, representing 15% growth over 2013 and 25% growth over 2011.

On November 19, the British Coatings Federation (BCF) launched its recommendations and interim report on how to create a circular economy for leftover paint at the House of Commons.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is seeking public comment on an updated version of its voluntary Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines.

When Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, J.C. Warner University Professor of Natural Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, was awarded the 2015 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences, topping the selection criteria was his 1995 development of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP).

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is seeking comments on a draft document intended to help employers develop a program to protect employees from retaliation when they raise concerns about workplace conditions or activities that could harm workers or members of the public.

Steel is ubiquitous in our daily lives. We cook in stainless steel skillets, ride steel subway cars over steel rails to our offices in steel-framed building.