Safety Speak: Temporary Respirator Guidance, Distracted Driving and Airborne Viruses -- Occupational Health & Safety

Episode 32

Safety Speak: Temporary Respirator Guidance, Distracted Driving and Airborne Viruses

Interested in knowing more about what it means for Coronavirus to be airborne? Tune in to this mini episode for a deep dive on how infectious diseases spread as well as information on top headlines like the new OSHA temporary respirator guidance and Distracted Driving Awareness Month.

By Sydny Shepard
Oct 12, 2020

In this Safety Speak episode of the podcast, we will discuss OSHA’s latest guidance for use of tight-fitting respirators, a new survey released for Distracted Driving Awareness Month and if you stay until the end, I do quite a deep dive into what the word airborne means in relation to the Coronavirus after the newest guidance from the CDC.

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A special thank you to Blackline Safety:

Blackline Safety is a global connected safety leader that helps to ensure every worker gets their job done and returns home safe each day. Blackline provides wearable safety technology, personal and area gas monitoring, cloud-connected software and data analytics to meet demanding safety challenges and increase productivity of organizations in more than 100 countries. Blackline supports a broad range of scenarios and provides a lifeline to tens of thousands of men and women through devices that have reported over 100 billion data-points and initiated over five million emergency responses. Armed with 4G and satellite connectivity, we ensure that help is never too far away. BlacklineSafety.com

About the Author

Sydny Shepard is the former editor of Occupational Health & Safety.

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