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All about welder’s flash or arc eye

A flash burn is a painful inflammation of the cornea, which is the clear tissue that covers the front of the eye. A flash burn occurs whe...

What causes numbness in hands?

According to the Mayo Clinic, hand numbness is usually caused by damage, irritation or compression of one of the nerves or a branch of on...

CPR issues guide to help workers reduce toxic exposures

Every day, an average of 137 workers in the United States lose their lives to diseases and illnesses caused by on-the-job exposures to ha...

OSHA initiative aims to keep young workers safe at summer jobs

OSHA is using – what else? – social media to reach young people who may soon be working in summer jobs. The goal: to give them tips in st...

ASSP election results highlighted by Stegall’s move to president

The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), the world’s oldest professional safety organization, has announced its new leaders f...

Here are the health, environmental concerns keeping us up at night

What Americans fear most in terms of health and wellness is not necessarily what is currently posing the most danger to them, according t...

Robotic arm tests glove-gown protection in healthcare

During recent disease outbreaks, most notably the 2014 Ebola epidemic, the importance of effective personal protective equipment (PPE) wa...

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Product Innovations

Top products of the week

Copper socks, software that captures noise exposure in a single measurement and portable shade shelters were the top occupational safety and health products featured on ISHN.com this week. …

Environmental Health and Safety

Weekly news round-up

NIOSH uses robotic arms to test healthcare PPE, teen workers get safety info from OSHA and FairWarning sheds a light on the hazards faced by small farmers in the U.S. …

Better Living

High temperatures stress the body and require cooling off practices

Benjamin Brook

Superman doesn't sweat. It's something I recently found out. It doesn't make sense to me, but I guess that when you're pretty much invulnerable and you shoot laser beams from …

Safety Culture

Creating the right climate for safety

David Sarkus MS, CSP

During my college summer breaks, I worked at a few different high-risk construction sites. On one job, I had a boss who liked to holler and was not very well …

Environmental Health and Safety

Going far beyond OSHA

Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM

Appendix A to federal OSHA’s 1978 lead standard (current today) provides that blood lead level (BLL) of workers, both male and female, who intend to have children should be maintained …

Risk Management

A confined spaces analysis

Robert "Scott" Goodwin, CHST

We have all read the articles or posts on the questions regarding confined spaces such as “What is a confined space?” or “What makes your confined space permit required?” You …

PPE

What is the National Safety Stand-Down?

The 6th annual National Safety Stand-Down to prevent falls takes place the week of May 6-10, 2019. The Stand-Down was conceived by OSHA in 2014 as part of the National …

How do copper compression socks help those who work on their feet all day?

Kunal Patel

If you have a job where you are on your feet for the most part of the day, you will be prone to aches, soreness and infections. At times, it may get so excruciating that you are unable to move at the end of a long day. Thanks to copper compression socks, you can get through such days without any soreness or aches.

Product Innovations

Casella launches NoiseSafe software

Casella, a leading provider of air sampling, noise and vibration monitoring solutions, announced today its new advanced software package, NoiseSafe. NoiseSafe is designed for use with Casella’s personal dosimeter, the dBadge2, which captures noise exposure in a single measurement and provides subsequent download and analysis.

Blogs

5 ways to incorporate wellness into your daily lifestyle

By Cathy Baylis

Wellness is more than just something that we can “do” as a one-off thing for a short-term boost. It’s a way of life, which is why it also needs to find its way into your lifestyle. Unless you make it a habit, it’ll quickly be forgotten and you’ll be back to your old bad habits in no time.

Worker safety tips: The power of empowerment

By M.B. Sutherland

5 steps to creating a safety culture

By M.B. Sutherland

Vendor News & Case Studies

Industrial Scientific launches new website

Industrial Scientific, the global leader in gas detection, is pleased to announce the launch of its new website. The new website features numerous updates to improve user experience including faster load times, a mobile-first design, full product catalog search, and robust quote building functionality. Available in English, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese, the new site offers enhanced browsing and content for global audiences.

PPE

International Glove Association announces new leadership

The International Glove Association (IGA) is pleased to announce that glove expert Matt Piotrowski has been named president of the association, effective March 17, 2019. Matt is a Product Manager for Showa Group, one of the world's leading producers of hand protection products. Known globally as pioneers and innovators in the glove industry, Showa is solely focused on the start-to-finish manufacturing of household and industrial hand protection.

Health

Falls cost lost workdays and billions of dollars

Based on 2014 published data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 261,930 private industry and state and local government workers missed one or more days of work due to injuries from falls on the same level or to lower levels1, and 798 workers died from such falls2. The construction industry experienced the highest frequency of fall-related deaths, while the highest counts of nonfatal fall injuries continue to be associated with the health services and the wholesale and retail industries.

Construction Industry Safety and Health

Mass. laborer dies in fall from a home under construction

On January 14, 2016, a 22-year-old male laborer/carpenter (victim) employed by a residential contractor was fatally injured after falling from a single family house under construction. While on the top plate of a studded exterior second story wall, the victim lost his balance and fell approximately 24 feet to the frozen ground below. The fall was not witnessed by any of the co-workers onsite, but the site foreman heard a noise and while trying to determine what the noise was he found the victim on the ground.

ISHN Magazine

2019 April

Among the articles in the April 2019 issue of ISHN Magazine, we have expert insight on the world of safety technology, the latest innovation in respiratory protection, offer a closer look at robotics and welding, and much more.

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