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eCompliance releases complimentary product for hazardous industries during COVID-19

eCompliance, the software for strengthening safety culture, introduces a COVID-19 Complimentary Product Offering for hazardous industries...

NSC President & CEO: Business leaders must protect America’s workers

National Safety Council President & CEO Lorraine Martin on April 2 issued the following call to business leaders across the country t...

AIHA Announces 2020 Named Awards

The American Industrial Hygiene Association® (AIHA) announced the recipients of the 2020 AIHA Named Awards, which honor individuals w...

Recorded ASSP education sessions free for limited time

For a limited time, the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) is providing free online access to 330 recorded education session...

J.J. Keller releases FFCRA poster to help small businesses comply with mandatory COVID-19-related federal posting change

To help small businesses and public agencies comply with the new posting requirement in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCR...

New Pig fights COVID-19 with key products facilities need

New Pig, a brand that helps workplaces manage leaks, drips and spills to create safer, cleaner and more productive environments, is all i...

AIHA names 8 new distinguished fellows

The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) honors eight new industrial hygiene and occupational and environmental health and safe...

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Global

What you need to know about coronavirus

What exactly are the symptoms of coronavirus, anyway? Is it deadly? How worried should I be? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says little is known about the virus, but …

Facility Safety

Stay proactive in your workplace with hazard signs, alarms, and signals

Mark H. Stromme

Workplaces can sometimes be dangerous and that’s why OSHA requires employers to alert employees to hazards that they could encounter. A proactive way to provide this protection is to use …

Training/Incentives

Types of welding processes have distinct differences

Megan R. Nichols

The act of joining together two different pieces of metal is nothing new. Over the past few centuries, however, new industrial techniques have yielded a variety of different types of …

Better Living

Consider ergonomics to reduce materials handling

Craig Moberg

Warehouse hazards are often the cause of workplace accidents. Choosing the correct type of storage will greatly reduce the potential hazard in a facility. The correct storage medium will reduce …

Human & Organizational Performance

For your health & wellness: Sleeping habits

Sleeping well, long enough and having regular bedtimes, in addition to meeting the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) guidelines, may help reduce the risk of heart attacks, …

Occupational Safety

Get your hands on the right safety gloves

Carrie Halle

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, injuries to hands accounted for nearly 25 percent of all lost-time industrial injuries - a total of 110,000 annually. Seventy percent of those …

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Hydration benefits: Why water is the essence of good health

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition recommends drinking up to 3 liters of fluid a day. Water is vital for all cell function. It helps your brain to produce hormones …

Sky Hook provides immediate lifting solution for social distancing requirements

Maintaining efficiency with a limited or restricted workforce has never been more paramount. With the widespread impact of COVID-19, many companies have temporarily closed their doors or made changes for personal safety, including employees working from home to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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5 Tips for Preventing Employee Burnout

John Heniff M.B. Sutherland

In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially recognized employee burnout as an “occupational phenomenon.” They classify burnout as a syndrome stemming from “chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.”

Blogs

PPE asset tags: Keeping a digital eye on safety equipment

By Tina Huff and JoAnn Mrgich

Why is it important to digitally track PPE? Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a vital part of workplace safety. By digitally tracking long-term PPE more efficiently and effectively, it’s possible to maintain safety and compliance goals while reducing resources spent managing your PPE program.

How to help new employees stay safer

By John Heniff

Too many biases to even name impact safety

By Len Kinor

Psychology

Survivors of a fatality can struggle for answers

Dave Johnson

. Gene Hobbs was working for the Meade County Road Department, raking along the edge of a road shortly after noon, when he was run over by a dump truck backing up, killing him upon impact, on December 13, 2016.

Safety Culture

The toughest job in safety? It could be cleaning up toxic messes

Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM

The OSHA standards below require employers to certify training. Which requires “A written certificate shall be given to each person so certified”?

Safety Technology

ISEA work group begins the process

Dave Johnson

ISEA – the International Safety Equipment Association – is moving forward with a connected worker task group of member companies -- all safety equipment manufacturers -- to decide what actions are needed to ensure and advance safety in the broad, rapidly expanding field of connected worker devices.

Human & Organizational Performance

Ingredients for the best jobs: What makes good jobs better?

Dr John Kello

Do you have a great job in EHS? What is a great job? Excellent, enriched jobs have the following characteristics:

ISHN Magazine

2020 April

Among the articles in the April 2020 issue of ISHN Magazine, we get some expert advice on how to strengthen safety by emphasizing equipment reliability, discuss the methods that really work to identify hazards, consider ergonomic options in the materials handling industry, and much more.

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