Celebrating its seventh consecutive record year, this organization has grown far beyond its roots as a jan/san buying group.
Most customers using the FAST 5000SM machines find they have better control of their PPE and MRO supplies than ever before.
Online SafetyManager, management tools organized into "Four Corners of Safety," was a hot item during the 2011 Grainger Show.
. . . for ASSE, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary and this month returns home to Chicago for its 44th annual professional development conference.
A June 13 session is a case study about the solution to fall protection challenges at the U.S. Capitol, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' program will be showcased June 15.
The training packet includes instructor materials, student handouts, lesson tests, PowerPoint files, and an optional video about the four major hazards.
The Sustainable Workplace Alliance will begin its half-day training classes June 24 in Dallas. The training was made possible by a Susan Harwood grant from OSHA.
The serious violations address fall hazards at heights ranging from 12 to 40 feet, including a lack of guard rails, hand rails, harnesses, and/or belts/lanyards.
For instance, IH consultants will be happy to know about the results of SKC Inc. research showing alternative air sampling bags work well.
OSHA has cited Multi-Cast Corp. for 13 safety and health violations, including failing to ensure foundry employees wore fire-retardant clothing and protective equipment while working with molten metal.
The inspection was initiated after an employee sustained a partial amputation of two fingers and a broken wrist in November 2010.
"This company was aware that employees were conducting torch cutting on a steel structure coated with lead-based paint and failed to ensure that a respiratory protection plan was in use on the job site," said Michael Connors, OSHA's regional director in Chicago.
At the work site, welding equipment ignited flammable gases and caused a flash fire resulting in second and third degree burns to the face and head of the welder working inside the steel pipeline.
“W503 Noise - Measurement and its Effects” will provide registrants with a better appreciation of the nature of noise hazards in the workplace and the effects of noise on people, noted AIHA.
OSHA has cited PolyChem Services Inc. for one safety and five health violations after a worker received second- and third-degree burns at the plant in November 2010.
OSHA's inspection of the beef processing and packaging company was initiated in November 2010 under the agency's Site-Specific Targeting Program, through which OSHA focuses on employers with higher-than-average occupational injury and illness rates.
The industry's major names are here in Portland and, from the looks of things so far, they brought their best with them.
Fall protection expert Thomas Kramer will receive the Charles V. Culbertson Outstanding Service Award from the American Society of Safety Engineers on June 12.
BHP Billiton on May 13 published its final Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement for a huge expansion of its Olympic Dam operation in South Australia.
The new certification label will bear the manufacturer's name and helmet model and the words "DOT FMVSS No. 218 Certified."