Report Urges Public Worker Safety Regulations

The Chemical Safety Board called on Florida officials to enact safety regulations to protect public employees as part of its final investigation report on an explosion at a city of Daytona Beach wastewater treatment plant that fatally burned two municipal workers. In the report issued Tuesday, the board concluded that the city's safety programs were inadequate and called on the Florida Legislature and Gov. Charlie Crist to pass and implement workplace safety rules for the state's state, county, and municipal employees. The Jan. 11, 2006, explosion at the Bethune Point Wastewater Treatmen...