Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has closed its case against Manu’a’s Inc., dba Manu’a’s Discount Store, after the locally based company paid the penalty of over $35,000, according to spokesperson with the US Department of Labor (USDOL), whose...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa-based, Manu’a’s Inc., dba Manu’a’s Discount Store has called on the federal appeal’s court in Washington D.C. to review an issue it says is “of critical and common application to American employers.”
And that is, “whether and to what extent an employer”...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has closed its investigation and reduced the penalty against a US based fishery company, Cape Ferrat Fishing Lp., following the death last year of a man who fell overboard a fishing vessel that was docked at the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Creating a safe working environment at the local Department of Education’s School Lunch Program (SLP) was the focus last month of training and workshop for personnel at SLP, which is under the leadership of assistant director Christina Fualaau.
Education director Dr....

![Flowers with photographs in place at the site where three Manu'a Store employees died during a work-related accident on January 14, 2017. One year later, Toese Ume, who was a member of the local US Army Reserve at the time; Iosefa Elia and Saito Paulo, were remembered. The tragic incident occurred next to Manu'a Store at the Tafuna Industrial Park. [photo: TG / SN file] Flowers with photographs in place at the site where three Manu'a Store employees died](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/electrocution_memorial_6089.jpg?itok=qwdDgLzR)


![US based engineer and instructor, Dennis Fisher, late last month during a training course at the Office of Motor Vehicle compound in Tafuna, for drivers of the School Lunch Program (SLP), as he explained what needed to be done every day to SLP vehicles before drivers head out for their deliveries. The goal of the refresher course is to ensure that drivers are fully aware of their responsibility before and after delivery. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] US based engineer and instructor, Dennis Fisher,as he explained what needed to be done every day to SLP vehicles before drivers head out for their deliveries.](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/dennis_n_slp_drivers.jpg?itok=M4dT8E8H)