A challenging factor is potential risk from several different chemicals, each of which requires a different glove material for maximum protection.
The National Safety Council celebrated its centennial in style, although not without some grumbling from exhibitors, and looked forward to the next chapter in its long history of service and advocacy.
Safety and health professionals who also have security and environmental responsibility may want to stay a while: Chicago’s McCormick Place plays host to ASIS, Safety Congress, and WEFTEC conferences in a three-week span of September and October.
This year's quartet discussed the value of prescription safety glasses, elements of a quality respiratory program, the new ANSI/ASSE Z359.14-2012 standard for self-retracting devices, and the added value of buying PPE from a Qualified Safety Sales Professional.
The council already has begun collecting safety professionals' stories via a 100 Years of Safety website.
CEO Dave Cote said "the commercial aerospace outlook, increasing infrastructure spending, and oil and gas investments" are encouraging.
The subsidiary of Tyco International is also celebrating 80 years of operation and its role in helping to safeguard industrial, military, and fire service customers around the world.
There's no threat from Hurricane Rafael, which passed Bermuda on Tuesday, heading harmlessly to the northeast.
A study in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization estimates 65,000 additional optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical dispensers, and other eye-care professionals would be needed to provide these services.
CPWR, the Center for Construction Research and Training, unveiled its new design Oct. 4.
The recipients are attending community colleges coast to coast. The distribution giant also has designated October as "Skilled Trades Awareness Month."
OSHA has proposed $72,800 in fines against Cleveland Tank & Supply Inc., with 19 serious health and safety violations cited.
Here's your chance to get an early look at new products being exhibited at the Orlando conference.
Here's advice managers should follow (and not follow) when it comes to deciding on and purchasing appropriate footwear for their workforce.
More attention and monitoring of occupational radiation exposure in the natural gas industry are warranted.
There is no surgery, no rehabilitation, no medication that returns a noise-induced hearing loss back to normal.
NSC describes the Safety Trail in the central aisle of the expo as "a visual journey through corridors of safety milestones from the last century."
A new Staples.com feature, the Safety Research Center, offers guides to help them prepare for common safety issue and emergencies.
Commerce, Calif.-based 99 Cents Only Stores Texas Inc. faces 19 serious violations in connection with its Houston distribution center.
Released by Safe Work Australia, this is the first annual report summarizing new diagnoses collected in the Australian Mesothelioma Registry, a new national registry that became operational in 2011.