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The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) held its first ever fashion show promoting wearable safety items during the annual Safety 2015 Conference and Expo held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. The fashion show was held on Monday, June 8, 2015 at 12:30 pm during a catered lunch.

The Wells Glove Company started out in 1907 in Aberdeen, South Dakota by William O. Wells. It started with $500 and 5 sewing machines.

Federal regulators’ adoption of industry consensus standards shows their desire to keep up-to-date with worker safety risks posed by electricity, including highly dangerous arc flashes that cause thousands of burns each year, according to Business Insurance, a bi-weekly magazine and daily news website.

Recent NIOSH research has shed some light on the topic of the safety of N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFR) use by pregnant workers. Women make up approximately one-half of the US work force. At any given time, about 10% of those female workers of child-bearing age (15–44 years of age) will be pregnant.

3M has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Capital Safety -- a leading global provider of fall protection equipment, one of the fastest-growing safety categories within the global personal protective equipment industry.

The owner of a Pennsylvania roofing company was indicted by the U.S. Attorney's office in Philadelphia with making false statements, obstructing justice and willfully violating OSHA fall protection standards in connection with the fatal fall of an employee in June 2013.