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Magid announces new line of cooling PPE

Company working alongside cooling gear leader MISSION® and heat stress pioneer The Korey Stringer Institute at UCONN to provide heat illn...

Blackline Safety, NevadaNano partner for combustible gas detection innovation

Blackline Safety Corp., a global leader of gas detection and connected safety solutions, has partnered with NevadaNano, a developer and m...

New publication outlines training standards for Total Worker Health® professionals

In a newly published paper in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Education and Training to Build Capacity in Total W...

National Safety Council reschedules Congress & Expo to spring 2021

Amid continuing concerns about COVID-19, the National Safety Council has rescheduled its annual flagship conference from October in India...

ASSP publishes new study guide and supervisory manual

Two books now available from the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) can help occupational safety and health professionals ex...

Professionally distanced: Ensuring employees safety through remote monitoring and social monitoring

With the focus for many businesses dealing with the ongoing Covid-19 global health crisis beginning to shift to "the new normal" and retu...

eCompliance launches revamped Field iD 4.0

eCompliance, the number one software for strengthening safety culture, launches a revamped version of Field iD on Mobile.

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2020 Readers' Choice Awards Winners: Best PPE, safety equipment products

Thousands of ISHN subscribers voted online for the most innovative personal protection equipment (PPE) and occupational health and safety products, and now the results of ISHN's 2020 Readers' Choice Awards …

Safety Technology

Digital transformation meets the latest in combustible gas detection

Sean Stinson Bob Christensen

The risk of gas leaks has been a common concern for decades in many industries, including oil and gas, petrochemical, utilities, mining, public safety and beyond. …

Career Corner

ASSP’s Deb Roy discusses her EHS career, offers advice for safety professionals

ISHN interviews ASSP President-Elect Deb Roy in this episode of Dave Johnson’s Wide World of Safety. …

Coronavirus Coverage

Cleaning up during COVID-19: What you need to know about janitors' risk

Amanda Rawls

Amanda Rawls, South Central District Manager of KPA, answers questions related to janitors, COVID-19 and what employers need to do. …

Occupational Safety

Are you confident your remote workers are safe?

Gen Handley

With tens of millions of Americans returning to work after the COVID-19 quarantine, the workspaces they are returning to aren’t the same places as when they left them months ago. …

Coronavirus Coverage

Reopening business during COVID-19: Prioritize health, reduce risk and adapt

Chad Coleman

Like most businesses across the country, Examinetics was greatly affected when the coronavirus pandemic hit. …

Manufacturing plant safety face masks getty

Health

5 changes to industrial safety procedures due to COVID-19

Devin Partida

Manufacturing plants and industrial sites are opening up again after COVID-19 lockdowns, but the people returning to work will notice many changes in their safety protocols. …

A risk-based approach to reopening amid COVID-19

Dave Johnson

Jurassic World: Dominion is poised to be the first major studio release to resume filming in the United Kingdom in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. But filming in the midst of a pandemic will not come cheap to Universal Pictures.

Health

How businesses can protect their employees from burnout

Luke Smith

While entrepreneurs may bring incredible ideas to the table, it is employees who are instrumental in bringing them to fruition and pushing them to the next level.

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

Vendor News & Case Studies

Padlock offers protection for jobsite security

ABUS USA released its latest padlock, the Silver Rock™ 5/50, designed to take jobsite protection to the next level. Construction sites utilize job boxes to store materials, tools and heavy equipment, often times using laminate padlocks that easily rust and damage. With its solid zinc body, the Silver Rock 5/50 withstands outdoor elements and offers a paracentric keyway that protects against tampering.

Human & Organizational Performance

Identifying convergence fields and technologies for industrial safety

Daniel Browning

In the past several decades, the size of industrial systems and the technology that grows alongside it has, naturally, expanded. Alongside it, though, the hazardous factors that cause major accidents — like unstable conditions and behavior — have become even more complex, thereby expanding in a similar vein at a breakneck speed.

Construction Industry Safety and Health

New study: Health risk behaviors among construction workers

New research from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) suggests that several behaviors that contribute to higher health risks are more prevalent among construction workers than workers in other industries.

PPE

Tingley offers new hi-vis options for off-road applications

Tingley is proud to announce four new additions to the Job Sight™ line of high visibility apparel.

ISHN Magazine

2020 June

Among the articles in the June 2020 issue of ISHN Magazine, we offer a detailed analysis of different types of face masks, discuss long-term solutions for businesses figuring out their COVID-19 response plans, focus on hand protection, and much more.

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