Oregon requires them for every business of 50,000 square feet or more where the public congregates if it has more than 50 visitors per day. Legislation may be introduced soon in Congress to mandate AEDs in all schools.
Building owners can upgrade to addressable fire alarm control panels that are relatively easy to install and troubleshoot, including panels specifically intended for retrofits.
Good intentions aside, make sure your shop has a plan of action for correct and appropriate safety signs and signals for various uses.
Safety professionals are carefully observing OSHA's progress and beginning to take steps in anticipation of the final rule.
Because damage can be widespread and severe, responders need effective and rapid consequence modeling of the hazardous materials emanating from a fire.
More than anything else, shippers want visibility of a carrier's data. Many are mandating electronic onboard recorders.
Many U.S. health care providers already require employees to accept vaccinations. Henry Ford Health System requires measles, mumps, rubella, and tuberculosis vaccinations, with no opt-outs allowed.
Fatal incidents where rescue capability is not standing by and available are all too frequent.
These are the next hurdles to bridge, and manufacturers are doing just that as they develop next-generation respirators for an expanded base of users.
Loose-fitting powered and supplied-air respirators offer increased comfort and productivity -- a better experience for all concerned.
While the time savings vary greatly, a rough estimate is that safety managers spent 40 percent of their time delivering training in the pre-online era and now spend 10 percent of their time on it.
Why is manual patient handling unsafe? The cumulative weight a nurse or nursing assistant may have to lift during patient lifts or transfers within an eight-hour shift can be as much as 1.8 tons.
Your employees need special support in cold situations and more yet in emergency cold situations.
A long-awaited modernization of the general industry regulations has good elements, as well as some bad features and some omissions.
Document your training efforts and log all attendance. It matters and shows your efforts to educate a constantly changing workforce.
First and foremost, the hazard itself should be the most prominent consideration when choosing a specific piece of emergency equipment.
Typically, about 85 percent of the loss in slip resistance after 5,000 cycles has already occurred after 500 cycles.