Independent market research on PPE is hard to come by. But, there's good news: In August 2006 Clear Seas Research of Troy, Mich., conducted a comprehensive study of more than 1,200 safety professionals and PPE product users. A total of 279 industry pros completed the section on eye/face personal protection — one of the hottest PPE markets in safety.
In March, OSHA helped the marketing departments of safety distributors everywhere by fingering approximately 14,000 employers that have injury and illness rates at their work sites higher than average. Do these firms know where their nearest safety distributor is?
Well, the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament is history and once again American productivity took a significant hit. Some employers say that work time lost to Web surfing, e-mail and phone calls is a small price to pay for stronger morale, less turnover and higher productivity.
Many years ago, it seems another lifetime almost, I worked in safety for a paper company in the South, and then in New England. Now I am with an insurance carrier in the Atlanta area and, believe me, I’ll never venture north for work again!
The nanotech revolution is predicted to be in full swing by 2015. By then many engineered nanomaterials will have moved out of the research lab and into the marketplace, creating over a $1 trillion global industry and employing more than one million workers in the U.S.
How do we change the way we’ve been trying to change? Here’s a theory: Besides top-down vision and the will to change, we also need to have a “corporate culture” that “enables” change to happen.
A behind-the-scenes battle is raging worldwide over reforms in China’s labor law. The fight indicates the political barriers blocking development of the vast potential market for personal protective gear and other safety products in China.
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