Articles Tagged with ''workplace safety and health''

NFPA 70E is one of the most important safety documents

Compliance benefits include improved safety culture and savings increases for employers.
Patrick Liebe
May 1, 2019

Today more than ever, companies need to reduce employee injuries and incident rates and avoid the costs of downtime due to electrical equipment failures. Implementing comprehensive electrical safety programs that result in changing and improving a company’s safety culture can help make these goals a reality.


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Workers help craft the best safety rules
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Workers help craft the best safety rules

Time to rebuild the “Rule Mill”
Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.
December 4, 2018
Rules are so easy to make that safety offices are often accused of being a “Rule Mill” because they continuously produce their rule-of-the month. Why do we create so many rules? One particular cog in our mill that causes us to create rules is incidents. When we suffer an incident, we want to throw every tool in the arsenal to keep it from happening again.
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dust collector explosions

Prevent explosions that can occur in dust collectors

Catastrophic consequences
Brian Richardson
November 4, 2018
For operations that produce toxic or explosive dusts, it is a priority to keep the workplace safe and compliant. Industrial dust collectors equipped with integrated safety monitoring filters (iSMFs) can isolate dust particulates to ensure that no measurable weight of emissions is discharged.
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Machine Safeguarding pgs 36 and 37

Traumatic machinery accidents carry a heavy price tag

Machine guarding math
Matt Brenner
March 27, 2017

In the United States, workers operating or maintaining industrial machinery suffer more than 18,000 amputations, crushed fingers and other traumatic injuries each year. While these injuries vary greatly, the majority of cases do have one thing in common: the injury was largely preventable if machine safeguarding equipment had been in-place, or would have been far less severe.


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Connecting the dots

How ISO 45001 can create solutions that cross borders
March 13, 2015

Kathy A. Seabrook CSP, CFIOSH, EurOSHM, discusses RISK at the “Standards and the Global Supply Chain” event hosted by ANSI.


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NIOSH seeks public comment on NORA

Stakeholders are invited to share experiences of the past decade
February 9, 2015

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is seeking public comment from partners and the public to help evaluate the impact of the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA). Feedback is being accepted until closing of the federal docket on March 24, 2015.


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