They may be small, but their potential is enormous. Nanoparticles are being developed that could “starve” tumors1, make perishable food last longer, create gold-flecked luxury fabrics2 and even - some day - enable your shoes to power your cell phone.3
When the editors of ISHN asked me to write an article concerning changes to gas detection in this decade, the second decade of the twenty-first century, I welcomed the opportunity to look back and explore whether or not the rules that govern gas monitoring in industry really have changed over the years.
Skin care in the workplace has been moving to the forefront the past several years. Some areas of concern for employers include protecting workers from the sun’s harmful rays; insect carrying diseases such as West Nile virus and Lyme disease; poisonous plants including poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac; and transmittable diseases from body contact such as the H1N1 virus.
Consider this scenario: Your firm has just completed a project that involved assessing your client’s status with regard to OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) and making recommendations to close its gaps.
You know you’re a safety geek when you slip and land on your butt on the bathroom floor in a factory’s front office thinking, “What at-risk behavior did I do to earn this bruise?”
From September 1, 2007: "I practiced my oral testimony so many times during the night before the hearing (I couldn’t sleep at all ) that when my turn to testify came up, rather than being nervous, I think I just went on auto-pilot!"
More and more Americans over age 55 are working later in life, and this means work-related injuries in this group continue to climb, up from 12 percent in 2003 to 17 percent in the latest tally, according to researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A series of recent blunders that appeared to leave flight crews and the flying public in danger has led to dismissals and high level management changes, according to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Randy Babbitt, who said the moves were part of a comprehensive review of the air traffic control system.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a final rule to protect the safety and health of shipyard workers, which is published in today's edition of the Federal Register.
It happened again in Bangladesh in December 2010 - a fire in a garment factory killed 29 workers and hundreds were injured as they were suffocated, burned alive, trampled in stairwells, or leapt to their deaths from the 9th and 10th floors - because four of seven exit doors were locked.
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