Articles Tagged with ''occupational exposure''

EHS research

Gulf spill cleanup workers suffered symptoms

October 3, 2017
Workers who were likely exposed to dispersants while cleaning up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill experienced a range of health symptoms including cough and wheeze, and skin and eye irritation, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Their study appeared online Sept. 15 in Environmental Health Perspectives and is the first research to examine dispersant-related health symptoms in humans.
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Many with work-related asthma aren’t getting vital vaccine

September 28, 2017
Adults with asthma are at increased risk for pneumococcal disease, yet according to a new CDC study published today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, just 54 percent of adults with work-related asthma—asthma triggered by an exposure at work—have been vaccinated against the infection.
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Silica rule delayed for 30 days

September 28, 2017
A move last week by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will delay enforcement of OSHA’s silica rule for the construction industry for another 30 days – to Oct. 23. The DOL said the delay was necessary because of the “dramatic” reduction in the exposure limit – from 250 to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air, averaged over an eight-hour shift.
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Introducing the MSA ALTAIR® Grid

September 27, 2017
In the battle against the unexpected, you deserve an unfair advantage. Introducing the MSA ALTAIR Grid, our real-time remote monitoring service for portable gas detection.
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EHS research

Performing, fine artists face OSH hazards, too

September 27, 2017
Painters, actors, and other artists face a wide range of hazardous occupational exposures and working conditions, according to a special article collection in the September Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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CleanSpace opens Welding Respiratory Safety Resource Center

Details how to prevent exposure to carcinogenicity of welding fumes
September 26, 2017
CleanSpace Technology, a global manufacturer of powered air purifying respiratory protection, today opened its Online Welding Respiratory Safety Resource Center, a resource to educate organizations on the respiratory hazards of welding, key considerations for respiratory protection and the best respirator equipment options.
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A FairWarning story

Noisy, but that’s not all

Leaf blowers flagged as prodigious polluters -- and possible health threat
Stuart Silverstein Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
September 20, 2017
Five years after starting his first job with a landscaping crew in the suburbs of Seattle, Fredi Dubon decided he had enough and called it quits. The work days were long, sometimes 12 hours, but a bigger problem was having to inhale exhaust from his gas-powered leaf blower.
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