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Employers must understand the options and match them to the optimal flame and arc flash protection their employees require.

It is time to rehumanize training at all levels. Here’s how to get started.

Even the most conscientious workers are tempted to compromise safety when their discomfort level is high.

Following these recommended best PPE practices will help keep first responders safe from bloodborne pathogens and other infectious material.

The 2009 edition of NFPA 70E® includes important changes that require many companies to change the way they handle electrical safety.

According to an OSHA press release, the agency partnered with several construction organizations to support a struck-by accident "safety stand down" on Wednesday, Nov. 4, from 7 to 8 a.m. EST at construction sites throughout Georgia.

OSHA is proposing penalties against four Miami, Fla., companies for safety violations following a fatality at the Bernuth Marine Terminal, according to an agency press release.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding three new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, according to an EPA press release. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country.

Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) is expected to introduce legislation today that will provide economic opportunities for voluntary greenhouse gas reductions especially in the agriculture, forestry and manufacturing sectors, according to a press release from the conservation organization, The Nature Conservancy.

Chronobiology International — Informa Healthcare’s journal on how biological rhythms affect the systems of living things — has published a new study which shows that the use of blue light blocking eyeglasses can help facilitate daytime sleep for shiftworkers.