Industrial hygienists are challenged to protect employees from noise exposure in all types of work environments, including variable conditions. This project completed a baseline noise assessment at the Dow Northeast Technology Center’s mechanical areas.
PFA doesn't rely on skills of a professional mental health provider, but rather, engages the skills that most of us already have.
Workplace labels must include the product identifier and general information regarding all of the hazards of the chemical(s).
The BBS facilitator will need to have a consulting mindset to determine the best approach and a teachable point of view to know what methodologies to leverage.
This year's AIHce conference will be year five for the wildly popular Ignite sessions, which are five-minute talks on pretty much any IH topic.
Leaders who think in terms of "repeat offenders" are unlikely to consider contributors other than the ill-intended motivations or habits of those injured. Besides not solving the problem, this approach often backfires.
At first glance, wet scrubbers may appear to be preferable because they inherently control the combustibility of a dust.
Provide relevant consequences. Consequences will assist in showing your workers what is in it for them.
Use these practical tips and best practices to create and maintain an effective emergency response plan. Frequent practice drills are essential.
A hazard risk assessment is a necessary step to take before conducting a wear trial. Only when the risk assessment is completed should the customer conduct a wear trial of fabrics that will meet the anticipated energy levels.
CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee divides ATDs into those two categories, diseases requiring Airborne Precautions and diseases requiring Droplet Precautions.
The National Safety Council put it even more succinctly, so that no one could miss the gravity of this situation: 52 people in America are dying from prescription opioid overdoses every day.
Even if we can't stop the production of deadly gases during a fire, we can take precautions to protect ourselves.
The steel bar manufacturer now faces $121K in fines.
Waste Control Specialists LLC announced April 28 it has filed an application with the NRC to build and manage a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility.
At least 11 people aboard died in the April 29 crash of a helicopter coming from the Gullfaks B field in the Norwegian North Sea.
The meeting is for the Emergency Response and Preparedness Subcommittee.
Exide Technologies also received an alert letter for a lack of heat-stress program.
The Obama administration has also requested $2.3 billion in the FY2017 budget.
ACA has supported two bills: the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, S. 697, which passed the U.S. Senate on Dec. 17, 2015, and a House of Representatives bill, H.R. 2576, which passed June 23, 2015, on a 398-1 vote.