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Top products of the week

Lighting solutions and kits that pull together fall protection and other PPE were among the top occupational safety and health products featured on ISHN.com this week. …
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Weekly news round-up

Integrating autonomous vehicle policies into your fleet safety management systems; a restaurant manager dies from a toxic mix of cleaning chemicals and no U.S. mine earns Pattern of Violation status. …
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U.S. aviation fatalities increased in 2018

U.S. civil aviation deaths increased from 347 in 2017 to 393 in 2018, according to preliminary statistics released Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The year 2018 saw …
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Report finds worker injuries are “routine” at Tesla’s Nevada plant

A new report from USA Today on Tesla’s “gargantuan” four-year-old battery factory in Nevada finds that worker injuries at the Gigafactory occur “on a routine basis: at least three a …
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Occupational Safety

Air war: A relentless whistleblower once more girds for battle over aviation safety

Rick Schmitt
Robert MacLean, a former federal air marshal, carries a lot of baggage. Twice dismissed by his bosses at the Transportation Security Administration, he has been criticized for being “paranoid” and …
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Nailing down nail gun safety

They’re powerful, easy to operate and allow workers to perform tasks taster. They’re also a leading cause of injury among residential carpenters. Of the 37,000 emergency room visits each year …
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Preparing your fleet for automated vehicles

Stephanie Pratt PhD Rebecca Olsavsky MS
Many of us already drive personal or company vehicles with automated features such as lane departure warning and automatic emergency braking. While automation clearly improves safety, it also presents new …

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