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Campaign Urges NZ Boaters to Wear Lifejackets

It's summer in the Southern Hemisphere, so Maritime New Zealand's new ad campaign is timed to the busiest boating season there.

Proactive injury prevention solutions will bring positive bottom-line results. (Kimberly-Clark Professional/Jackson Safety photo)

Eye on the Aging Workforce

Proactive injury prevention solutions bring positive bottom-line results.

Protective apparel is evolving to increase workers

Covering All the Bases

Protective apparel is evolving to increase worker safety and satisfaction alike.

By providing safety eyewear specially designed to perform in cold temperatures, wind, bright light, and glare, you can significantly decrease the change of eye injuries. (Honeywell Safety Products photo)

Four Considerations for Cold Weather Eye Safety

By providing safety eyewear specially designed to perform in cold temperatures, wind, bright light, and glare, you can significantly decrease the chance of eye injuries.

By providing basic "this is what you do and why" instructions, you help employees help themselves. (Michael Rieger/FEMA photo)

Hazmat by Accident

By providing basic "this is what you do and why" instructions, you help employees protect themselves.

The two-year research study will attempt to correlate subsequent health problems, such as Alzheimer

Allen Family Foundation Funds TBI Research

Researchers will try to correlate head injuries with later health problems through the two-year, $2.4 million study.

AOHP Sounds Alarm on U.S. Sharps Injuries

"Blood exposure among health care workers is a serious occupational risk that health care facilities strive to reduce," said Linda Good, director of Employee Occupational Services for Scripps Health and co-author of the EXPO-S.T.O.P. survey. "For the first time, we now have stick and splash exposure benchmark rates that represent the United States nationally."

Canada Issues Regs to Make Offshore Helicopters Safer

Lisa Raitt, the country's minister of transport, announced them Nov. 17 and said stakeholders have 30 days in which to submit comments.



NFL Players Union Offers Free Wellness Program

The Brain and Body Health component of The Trust allows former players who had concussions during their careers to have a brain MRI done at the UNC Brain and Body Health Program, Tulane University and Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine, or the Cleveland Clinic's facilities in Cleveland, Ohio; Las Vegas; and Weston, Fla.

OSHA Cites Textile Manufacturing Company for 21 Violations

Foss Manufacturing Co. in Hampton, NH, received $115,000 in proposed fines along with the citations.

More than a thousand consumer products already on the market in the United States contain nanomaterials, according to NIOSH.

NIOSH Releases New Nanomaterial Control Recommendations

The section on engineering controls -– local exhaust ventilation, isolation, and dust suppression methods -- states they are likely to be the most effective control strategy for nanomaterials, but it also advises using elimination and substitution first if they are feasible.

Large EHS trade show organizers apparently aren

2014 EHS Conference Preview

The cities of New Orleans, Las Vegas, and Orlando will host at least two of the biggest U.S. safety, health, and environmental conferences apiece next year.

Food service workers face a variety of hazards, so no glove provides universal protection.

Food Production Begins with Your Hands

Because the food-processing environment is multifaceted, no one glove can be considered the industry standard.

Hand injuries from chemicals are a leading cause of injury in the cleaning industry.

Toward Safer Cleaning Operations

According to OSHA, 40 percent of all janitorial injuries involve eye irritations or burns; 36 percent are skin irritations or burns; and 12 percent are the result of breathing fumes.

Everything Really Is Bigger in Texas

"We hit a sweet spot. We'll be here for the long haul," Honeywell Life Safety President Mark Levy said Sept. 18.

Both OSHA and the Canadian Standards Association have head protection standards designed to protect workers.

Top of the Line Protection

This is a perfect time for employers to become more familiar with ways in which they can protect their workers from head, face, and eye injuries.

Head protection that is either too large or too small is inappropriate for use, even if it meets all other requirements.

Exploring Crystalline Silica Exposure

When respirators are used to lower exposure to respirable crystalline silica, employers must establish a written respiratory program meeting the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.134.

Exhibitors from more than 50 countries have rented a record amount of exhibit space at this year

A+A 2013 Exhibits Set New Record

More than 1,600 exhibitors from 55 countries have book a record amount of floor space for the Nov. 5-8 trade fair and congress in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Navy Drowning Prompts New Life Jacket Rule

Sailors must now wear life jackets when watching topside aboard Navy submarines.

'Iron Man Suit' Sought by Special Operations Command

If it can be accomplished, it would provide ballistic protection and fire-retardant capability, according to the Army News Service's David Vergun.

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