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Health

Some truck stops lack healthy options

Long-haul truck drivers routinely sleep away from home, spending long hours sitting behind the wheel. These drivers often depend on truck stops for the opportunity to sleep, stretch, get a …
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Environmental Health and Safety

Not your father’s bulky, heavy work boots

Sally J. Smart
With more options than ever before, safety footwear is anything but a one-size-fits-all purchase. As you evaluate your footwear program, there are many things to think about, such as job-site …
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Construction Industry Safety and Health

Construction Site Noise: What’s the Risk?

With powerful machinery and heavy-duty tasks, construction sites are some of the noisiest places. Not only is the industry filled with loud sounds, it is also filled with noise-induced hazards. …
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Best Practices

Why you need an industrial hygienist along during OSHA site sampling

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Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
An OSHA health compliance officer (an industrial hygienist -- IH) recently put me in an ethical dilemma. While conducting “side-by-side” air sampling as the employer’s representative during an OSHA inspection, …
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Top OSHA Violations

Complying with OSHA’s walking-working surface standard

Karen Hamel
When OSHA revised the walking-working surface standard in 2016, part of the goal was to make the general industry standard more consistent with existing construction standards. …
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Product Innovations

Top products of the week

A full body harness that’s actually comfortable, emergency showers and eyewashes that you can use in winter weather and a device that eliminates static electricity. These were among the top …
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Health

Weekly news round-up

Employers’ responsibilities regarding their workers’ mental health, the FDA bans cancer-causing food chemicals and the NTSB issues preliminary information on the investigation into the recent massive natural gas blast explosions …

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