"It's a harsh environment for humans to work inside, " said Hidehiko Nishiyama of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Nisa).
According to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), robots inside the buildings measured radiation levels reached 57 millisieverts per hour.
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On Wednesday, Bangladesh announced the shut-down of 18 garment factories for safety reasons, amid growing concerns over the issue of industrial safety across the country.
It accused Tepco and regulators at the nuclear and industrial safety agency of failing to take adequate safety measures, despite evidence that the area was susceptible to powerful earthquakes and tsunamis.
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Several other nuclear power plants in the area have lost external power and are relying on backup generators, said a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) at a press conference currently in progress.
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Japan's government is consulting with experts from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the French nuclear fuel company Areva, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and the agency's chief spokesman.
In 2002, Tepco admitted to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency that it had falsified the results of safety tests on the containment vessel of the No. 1 reactor, which is now one of three reactors that workers are struggling to keep from overheating.
The law would require chemical manufacturers to demonstrate the safety of industrial chemicals used in everyday household products.
The BBC's Ethirajan Anbarasan in Dhaka says that frequent accidents in factories have triggered calls for more inspections to check fire safety in large industrial units.
Al-Tunisi's group is also planning the water, power, logistics and safety backups for an industrial park adjacent to the plant, where manufacturers will be lured in to transform raw plastics into the likes of PVC pipe, injection-molded automotive parts, packaging and carpets.
He said those running wind farms had the same responsibilities for safety as firms running other industrial sites.
However, safety rules are often ignored and industrial accidents remain common.
According to Fahy, federal food and safety regulations are catered to an industrial farm system, and are often expensive and unfriendly toward smaller farm operations.
Plans included modernizing equipment, increasing the number of fire stations in industrial areas and overhauling fire- and building-safety laws and regulations, inspections and worker training.
Only next year will laws require frontal air bags and antilock braking systems on all cars, safety features that have been standard in industrial countries for years.
There is no shortage of issues swirling around the food industry, and one of the most debated topics involves the compound bisphenol A. Known by its acronym BPA, it has been used for many decades in a wide array of industrial and consumer applications, ranging from hardened plastics to the epoxy safety lining of many food and beverage cans.
He said at the trial the company's failure to abide by safety rules was "one of the worst examples of sustained industrial negligence in a high risk industry I have ever seen".
The Industrial Products segment produces flame retardants (FR) and a variety of bromine compounds as well as other chemicals based primarily on rich mineral resources found in the Dead Sea, and the Performance Products segment is a phosphate powerhouse that produces a number of downstream products for food and industrial applications, offering solutions for the food, cleaning products, fire safety, coatings and electronics industries.
Air Products sells gasses like nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen and helium used in industrial and medical capacities, while Airgas sells gasses as well as wielding products and safety equipment.
Food safety is a particular concern, as some of the contaminants from years of industrial development make their way into the country's food from the soil in which it is grown.
Safety would remain the company's number one priority at the nuclear reprocessing site during any industrial action, he added.
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