Articles Tagged with ''PPE''

Radians, Inc., recently launched their 2014 Full Line Catalog with 84 pages of colorful new product photos, new models, and over 65 new products. In addition, their 2014 Catalog highlights their recent NVLAP® certification (NVLAP Lab Code 500090-0), their testing and standards focus, and their fast 7 day turn-around for custom screen printing and pad printing of hard hats, eyewear, and Hi-Viz vests.

The better our understanding of exposures and the risks they pose, the more assurance we have that we are controlling the most important (highest risk) exposures first. Control efforts (such as engineering, work practice, or personal protective equipment) are often costly to implement and maintain.

Undoubtedly the fact that almost everyone is now in the PPE distribution business. W.W. Grainger has vastly expanded its safety services, training, checklists, white papers, hotlines, etc. Fastenal, at one time a strictly or almost strictly an industrial fastener company, now markets vending machines of all sizes with all varieties of PPE.

West Chester Protective Gear has been recognized as InCom Distributor Supply “Vendor of the Year” by Do it Best Corp. InCom Distributor Supply is the industrial division of Do it Best and is a growing worldwide network of independent distributors serving the MRO needs of commercial, industrial, and government facilities.

GVS is a worldwide leading Manufacturer for filters in the Medical, Automotive and Industrial sectors. GVS has been launching in the US Market a very innovative new Half Mask, the Elipse® , claiming to be the most compact one of the market.

3M is pleased to announce the addition of two new products to its personal protective equipment portfolio. The upgraded 3M™ SecureFit™ Protective Eyewear 400 Series boasts innovative new features and enhancements to the industry-popular 3M™ SecureFit Protective Eyewear series.

Magid® T-REX™ Machine Knit Impact Gloves bring a never-before-seen combination of comfort, dexterity and impact protection. The T-REX’s machine knit shell provides workers with form-fitting breathable comfort along with a greater range of motion compared to cut-and-sewn impact gloves.

It’s the EHS version of the Academy Awards: a media festival taking place in Frankfurt, Germany in 2014 will honor the best media productions about occupational safety and health. The International Media Festival for Prevention will give awards to films and multimedia applications that increase risk awareness on the part of employees or provide information on comprehensive safety topics.

A new guide for selecting and deploying fixed systems to monitor hazardous gases is available from the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA).

You would think if workers knew how little electricity it takes to kill someone, they would be more cautious around energized equipment and other electrical hazards. But among most electrical workers there exists the old “it can’t happen to me” attitude of complacency.