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Sound Week,” a new effort that calls on or- ganizations to raise awareness of the value and importance of workplace safety and health programs, during June 12-18.
Sponsors of the event include the NSC, AIHA, ASSE, and NIOSH. Dozens of trade associations and industry and professional groups partnered with the initiative. “Our nation has made great strides in raising awareness about the importance of work- place safety, yet more than four million workers suffer serious job-related injuries or illnesses annually. We can do better,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta.
3M Awards 2017 OHS Scholarships
3M hosted a reception June 4 at the AIHce EXP conference in honor of the three recip- ients of its 2017 Occupational Health and Safety Scholarships. The program, in its 31st year, awarded three $5,000 scholarships to outstanding students in OSH graduate pro- grams in the United States or Canada who intend to pursue a career in the occupation- al health and safety profession.
The three 2017 winners are Emmanuel
Zervoudakis, a graduate student at the Uni- versity of Michigan; Elise Lagerstrom, who is pursuing her Ph.D. in environmental health and ergonomics at Colorado State University; and Jennifer Lynn Hudson, who is working toward her master of sci- ence degree in public health in the Oc- cupational and Environmental Hygiene Program at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Hudson said during the reception that her scholarship is much appreciated and she’s grateful for the company’s support of her studies. She is working a summer in- ternship this year at The Smithsonian In- stitution in Washington, D.C., and intends to become a Certified Industrial Hygienist, she said.
3M’s Personal Safety Division ac- cepted applications for this year’s schol- arships in March 2017.
Three Mile Island Plant
May Close in 2019
Exelon Corporation announced May 30 that it will “prematurely retire” its Three
Mile Island Generating Station on or about September 30, 2019, “absent needed policy reforms,” in the company’s words. The com- pany’s announcement said its officials “met with employees and informed community leaders, and pledged continued open dia- logue as they prepare for this transition.”
Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1 is located in Middletown, Pa., about 10 miles southeast of Harrisburg. It is oper- ated by Exelon Generation Co., LLC and received its original operating license in April 1974 and a renewed license in Octo- ber 2009. The nuclear power plant is best known as the site of the most serious nucle- ar accident in U.S. history, when equipment malfunctions, design-related problems, and worker errors cause a partial meltdown of Three Mile Island Unit 2’s reactor core on March 28, 1979.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has described it as the most serious ac- cident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plants’ operating history, “although its small radioactive releases had no detect- able health effects on plant workers or the
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