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Fatigue is the enemy of many oil and gas workers

March 7, 2018

In the past decade, more than 300 oil and gas workers were killed in highway crashes, the largest cause of fatalities in the industry. Many of these deaths were due in part to oil field exemptions from highway safety rules that allow truckers to work longer hours than drivers in most other industries, according to an article in The New York Times.

From the ISHN Archives...

MANAGING BEST PRACTICES: How to implement best practices

Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP

February 27, 2018

A best practice is often not what everyone else is doing, but is what is possible to achieve. Convincing someone of what is possible to achieve requires persuasive techniques that rely more on appeals rather than force.

How to effectively use safety signage

Avoid sensory overload

Karen Hamel

February 22, 2018

Signage is often posted to make everyone aware of a hazard, but when signage is overwhelming, unclear, vague, improperly placed or poorly maintained it’s true purpose can become minimized or defeated.

Safety incentives embrace smartphone programs

With a tap of your phone…

Buck Peavey

February 19, 2018

I said to myself, it would take decades for this modern technology to make it to the safety incentive market. The tech virus indeed continued its unstoppable path, as we now know. This market is typically slow to change, but not anymore.

Measuring noise impacts has come a long way since the ’60s

Not your father’s dosimeters

Bob Selwyn

February 16, 2018

The following is a brief history and usage of personal noise dosimeters.

Containment tips to limit oil spill cleanup

Damage control

Donny Beaver

February 12, 2018

The National Ocean Service reports that contaminants enter the environment from a variety of sources2, in addition to the spills that you see on the news. Even perfectly functioning equipment has a tendency to leak oil.

Confined space entry goes wireless

Testing, monitoring & permitting will never be the same

Dave Wagner

February 1, 2018

The year 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the implementation of permit-required confined space entry regulations in the United States. Thousands of entries that take place across the country every day have become, shall we say, standard.

Using automated external defibrillators (AEDs)

Dos and don’ts for using AEDs

Shock therapy

Benita Mehta

February 1, 2018

Hundreds of deaths from coronary heart disease occur outside a hospital daily, according to OSHA, but up to 60 percent of those deaths could have been prevented if automated external defibrillators (AEDs) had been immediately available.

Here are key confined space training requirements

Prepare for entry

John Raimondi

February 1, 2018

Confined spaces in construction are a potentially hazardous but unavoidable part of the job. Confined spaces can be large or small and come in any shape,1 but they must meet three OSHA criteria.

OSHA Electronic Submission of Injury and Illness Records 1904.41

Electronic submission of injury and illness records to OSHA (1904.41)

Improve tracking of workplace injuries and illnesses

January 31, 2018

OSHA intends to issue a separate proposal to reconsider, revise, or remove other provisions of the prior final rule and to seek comment on those provisions in that separate proposal. A notice of proposed rulemaking to reconsider, revise, or remove portions of the rule is expected in 2018.