How can you be sure your company’s respirators are offering adequate protection against inhalation hazards such as toxic vapors, gases and airborne particulate substances?
High temperatures and humidity challenge the body’s ability to control its internal temperature, and workers involved in strenuous activity and/or wearing hot protective clothing are at serious risk of the sometime fatal condition of heat stroke.
To achieve compliance with the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH), it is essential that you follow these steps.
The Voluntary Protection Programs Participants’ Association, Inc. (VPPPA) has received confirmation from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Acting Assistant Secretary for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Jordan Barab, that OSHA is not suspending the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), according to a press release issued by VPPPA.
With the introduction of the controlled negative pressure (CNP) fit test method and the CNP
Redon fit test protocol, it is now possible to complete an OSHA-accepted fit test of a worker’s actual respirator in three minutes or less.
Despite spending more than $1 million to implement more than 30 different noise-reduction projects, one company was cited for excessive noise exposures. Learn how they solved their noise problem.
Nassau County, N.Y., District Attorney Kathleen Rice’s investigation into a fatal trampling during an early morning after-Thanksgiving Day event at a Valley Stream, N.Y. Wal-Mart last year has resulted in what the DA’s office calls “a historic settlement with the world’s largest retailer.”
OSHA is to receive a ten-percent budget increase to $563 million, according to the funding proposal for the agency released by the Obama administration.
The Voluntary Protection Programs Participants’ Association, Inc. (VPPPA) has received confirmation from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Acting Assistant Secretary for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Jordan Barab, that OSHA is not suspending the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), according to a press release issued by VPPPA.
RSS