The nominee must have performed "hands on" aid in saving a life and, for law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and those in similar professions, the lifesaving action cannot have been part of their normal job responsibilities; it must have been above and beyond the call of duty.
"Everything here is water-related, which tends to be the case with health care," said Bryan E. Christensen, an industrial hygienist and epidemiologist with CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. "There really needs to be an increased role for the industrial hygiene field at health care facilities. It's something that needs more emphasis going forward."
Only three occupational cases of mosquito-borne Zika virus transmission have been recorded in the United States, a NIOSH presenter said June 5.
At this year’s AIHce EXP conference, the themes include questions about the IH profession’s future and the newest real-time detection technologies available from industry manufacturers.
The three-day annual event hosted by NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research Division is taking place at the Marriott Rivercenter in San Antonio.
The proposed Safety of Gas Transmission and Gathering Pipelines rule would set new IM requirements for these pipelines that are not in high consequence areas (HCAs), and it proposes a new "moderate consequence areas" definition.
How are organizations leveraging historical and real-time data to keep workers safe? As with auto safety systems and services, one type of data isn't enough for your gas detection program.
Work site safety inspections can be a vital part of your injury prevention efforts if done well.
A study published in Circulation last year found that CPR knowledge and confidence to use hands-only CPR can be increased through large-scale community training.
De-energizing equipment does not absolve the facility from the responsibility of performing an arc flash analysis or providing the necessary PPE.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to 40 percent of workers will suffer from occupational dermatitis at some point in their working lives.
Inspire conformance through influence, awareness, and definitively through the identification of the harmful and helpful biases we all have, some of them buried deep within us.
Like OSHA and EPA chemical safety trainings, DOT training helps hazmat employees to recognize and identify hazardous materials and learn how their functions ensure that those materials can be transported safely.
Employers and workers need to pay special attention to minimum recommended safety requirements of approved standards and safe working procedures.
Today's safety eyewear can be so lightweight and comfortable that at times workers don't even notice they are wearing it once it's on.
Computer work is more visually demanding than any other type of office work.
Flash fires and fuel-fed fires are two different hazards, and it's critical to distinguish between the two for various safety reasons.