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If the price of gloves or other PPE seems too good to be true, the product probably will not provide the protection and performance you need.

Most workers who experience hand injuries are not wearing protection; the rest are wearing gloves that are inadequate, damaged or wrong for the hazard present.

How do you implement a hand safety program that achieves a high level of awareness and makes wearing PPE second nature?

Professionals looking for new ways to reduce workplace-related injuries, improve productivity and grow their bottom line can head to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, December 2-5 for The National Ergonomics Conference and Exposition (NECE).

It’s been years since OSHA was the center of any real shouting match, the center of any emotion.

A growing number of safety professionals are questioning the conventional wisdom that preventing unsafe acts and minor incidents will lead to fewer fatalities.

Today, most psychologists realize the same individual’s disposition will vary according to different situations.

Failure to anticipate the boiled-frog phenomena throughout the public and private sectors has surprised managers with a spate of expensive worker injuries and their associated workers’ compensation claims.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) announced in a press statement that June Wispelwey, executive director of the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), a technical community within AIChE, will become executive director of the parent organization. Wispelwey will replace John A. Sofranko, who is retiring in January 2009, after eight years in that position.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a rule helping to protect the nation’s water quality by requiring concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to safely manage manure, according to a recent press release.