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Today’s workplace hazards are more diverse and complex than ever, and safety eyewear has to live up to these increasing challenges to keep workers safe.

Whenever a worker who is not wearing hand protection suffers a hand injury, the question comes up: whose responsibility is hand protection anyway?

If you shop at a local garden supply center for gloves to wear around the house and yard, you may be surprised at the assortment of products available — cotton Jersey, cowhide and PVC coated, to name a few.

Despite clear OSHA requirements for fire hazards1, many industrial organizations do not give the same attention to flame-resistant (FR) clothing as other personal protective equipment (PPE).

While industrial equipment has progressed to accommodate production demands, these high-power solutions create additional safety concerns.

Conventional wisdom used to be the heavier and more inflexible a boot was, the better it would protect feet in industrial and other work environments.

It is an ordinary Tuesday morning at your workplace.

Since its inception through to present day, the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) has evolved, mostly for convenience, into a document that provides data in greater detail than the standard requires.

I have been helping companies implement safety incentive programs for many decades, and one decision that is constantly underappreciated is the selection of specific rewards to use as incentives for safe behavior.

Not a single day goes by without media reports warning of increasing CO2 levels, rising temperatures and sea levels resulting from global climate change.