This month's ISHN is the ASSE Safety 2016 Show issue! Content featured in the issue include articles on hand protection, eye protection, fall protection, lockout-tagout and much more!
A 65-year-old temp has one finger amputated and suffers severe damage to another when his left hand is caught as he operates a machine for a Nebraska flooring materials company.
Studies show that older workers are more susceptible to negative consequences from heat exposure, and building this understanding into a workplace heat illness prevention program is imperative to creating a robust plan.
Recent data highlights a surge in suicide rates in the United States to its highest levels in decades. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the overall suicide rate rose by 24 percent between 1999 and 2014.
The workplace is not immune from the effects of the opioid epidemic that is raising alarm across the U.S. In fact, treatment practices for work-related injuries are likely contributing to the problem, since pain from those injuries is increasingly being managed with powerful prescription opioids.
If you’re curious about what these changes will entail, you’ve come to the right place; we’ve compiled a list of the ten major things that you need to know about the new testing standards, and how they will affect you and your customers.
Slips and falls to the same level are the second leading cause of lost worktime injuries, and the cause of 171 employee deaths in 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
You don’t have to be sweatin’ to the oldies or your favorite Richard Simmons DVD to generate heat. Actions as unconscious as breathing generate heat as part of the metabolism, the process of breaking down food for energy and rebuilding our bodies.
The purpose of this article is to provide a brief overview of Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) training, and to provide tips to make this training effective and efficient.
If someone has the choice to look at an image in an effort to gain understanding of something, or read a paragraph or more of text, the visual option will be much more inviting.
We’ve all been there: a safety training course where the instructor reads from the PowerPoint® slides word for word – attempting to jazz things up with a laser pointer – while the audience struggles to keep their eyes open by sneaking looks at their phones or doodling.
Welding professionals are critical to a wide variety of industries, from the automotive and transportation industries to aerospace, manufacturing, construction and more.
There’s an old saying that the ‘tail should never wag the dog’ and sometimes, in the increasingly litigious world of workplace health and safety, we need to take a step back and consider if the drive for compliance to standards is driving emergency safety showers and eye/facewash manufacturers to develop their products to meet standards rather than the needs of a casualty in an emergency situation.
"The concept of organizational culture is hard to define, hard to analyze and measure, and hard to manage," Schein states in the preface of his 1992 book (p. xi).
It’s New Year’s morning and I’ve just finished my local newspaper. The front page is about a 25-year-old Rochester man arrested in a reported ISIS-inspired plot to abduct or kill patrons in a neighborhood bar on New Years Eve.1
Multitasking is a word that is used frequently to describe our abilities to do more than one thing at a time. Many of us take pride in being able to multitask and are quick to state our skills
About seven in ten U.S. employers offer a general wellness program, up from 58 percent in 2008, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.
Without debating which presidential candidate you support, which Vision Thing (also known as slogan) provides a sense of inspiration, originality, and excitement?
June, July and August are typically the hottest months in the U.S., but even when warm climates aren’t at their peak temperatures, heat can be dangerous for outdoors workers.
The Senior VP of Marketing at a Fortune 500 company told me he wanted his customers to feel like buying his product was the most logical decision they had ever made.
3M Personal Safety Division announces that StrongArm® Technologies ErgoSkeleton™ personal performance equipment will now be available for purchase through 3M’s distribution channels
The newest version of the manual features a new, reader-friendly layout with updated information and photos of products and processes related to aluminum MIG welding
The S297 Maintenance Tags and S4810 Boxed Roll of Tags represent best practice identification solutions, and offer a durable, reliable, flexible and cost effective communication tool for employee use in restricted spaces
3M Personal Safety Division announces that StrongArm® Technologies ErgoSkeleton™ personal performance equipment will now be available for purchase through 3M’s distribution channels within the United States
The vegaview2.5 sets the world record for brightest view in light state with a shade level 2.5. optrel’s lens technology optimizes a welder’s view with an unprecedented view of realistic color