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Freestanding mast-climbing work platform remains stable during fall arrest, if properly used

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Production over safety at Tesla: “People are getting hurt every day”

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Obesity, physical inactivity, or short sleep affect 1 in 5 workers

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Health experts want FDA crackdown on Juul e-cigarettes

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Product Innovations

Top products of the week

A hazloc fan, innovative eyewashes and slip-resistant flooring were among the top occupational safety and health products featured on ISHN.com this week. …

Environmental and Occupational Health

Weekly news round-up

Climate change is increasing lung disease in the U.S.; a Southwest passenger plane avoids a catastrophe (but not a fatality) and garbage collectors want protection from careless motorists. These were …

Columns

Positive & negative workplace safety vibes

Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.

How do people get to a point where they fear safety? How can something like a checklist or an SOP or a safety manager create fear? Our body is equipped …

Safety in the Construction Industry

Falls a persistent cause of work-related death

Falls remain a persistent cause of work-related death, and workers in construction and oil and gas extraction are more likely than other workers to die from falling, according to NIOSH …

Risk Management

Not your father’s risk management

Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM

Yesterday’s risk management practices are no longer adequate to deal with today’s threats and they need to evolve. This reasoning drove ISO to revise risk management standard 31000:2009 to 31000:2018.2 …

Government Regulations

The challenge of replacing lockout with interlocks

Donny Snyder

The eternal battle is production versus safety, and at the very center of this is lockout, or better – avoiding lockout. The complaint, by both production and maintenance is that …

Today's News

Learning a lesson about pedestrian safety

Dave Johnson

I’ve never given much thought to pedestrian safety because I’ve never been in harm’s way or seen pedestrians at risk. That’s until two months ago. In February I attended a …

How often should your eyes be examined?

At a complete eye exam, called a dilated eye exam, the eye doctor widens the pupil of the eye with eye drops to allow a closer look at the inside of the eye. This exam may not be part of an eye exam for a new pair of eyeglasses or contact lenses. Be sure to ask your eye doctor for a dilated eye exam.

Health

Many eye problems seen at emergency departments aren’t emergencies

It's usually better to be safe than sorry when you get injured, but when it comes to common eye injuries and conditions, many people may be a little too cautious. That's the conclusion of investigators at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Howard University Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, whose research was published online by JAMA Ophthalmology.

Blogs

Leading by values, not priorities

By Adam L. Bates MS, MBA

To be a professional in the Environmental, Occupational Health, Safety and Security Career field is not something to be taken lightly. Professionals in this career field have to have a caring mentality about them. I personally am very lucky to love what I do for a career and take it very personally. I truly believe that it is possible for a culture to exist where people do not get injured by simply going into their profession.

6 ways to implement a safety culture within your workplace

By Paul DeTennis

Politically correct or effective?

By John Drebinger Jr.

Health

Dos and don'ts when you scratch your eye

People are usually very good at keeping things out of their eyes. Eyelashes help protect the eyes, our reflexes can snap our eyelids closed to block objects and our tears will wash out most dust or dirt that does get by. But accidents can still happen. Housework and sports are common eye injury causes.

Health

Vision problems with cataracts

If you have a cataract, your eye lens has become cloudy. It is like looking through a foggy or dusty car windshield. Things look blurry, hazy or less colorful with a cataract.

Health

Key facts about glaucoma

Glaucoma is a very misunderstood disease. Often, people don't realize the severity or who is affected. Four key facts about glaucoma 1. Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness Glaucoma can cause blindness if it is left untreated. And unfortunately approximately 10% of people with glaucoma who receive proper treatment still experience loss of vision.

Health

When foreign objects contact the eye

A foreign object could be a piece of dust, grit, or other substance that comes in contact with the eye. Most of the time, these objects are so small, we don’t notice them – and when they get into the eye, they’re harmless and easily removable. However, depending on the object and how deeply it enters the eye, foreign objects can be serious.

ISHN Magazine

2018 April

In this issue of ISHN, learn more about current compliance standards, and what employees and employers should do to ensure the safest work conditions.

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