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Welder’s anthrax is a serious health risk for welders and metalworkers. Learn more about this disease, how it spreads, and how to prevent exposure.

Apps have become incredibly important for occupational health and safety, protecting workers without requiring them to carry another device.

Monitoring sound levels is important for worker or visitor safety, to avoid harmful sound levels. Sound level monitoring may also be tied to compliance.

Safety wearables are quickly becoming the go-to fix for ergonomic injuries in the workplace, but their injury reduction capabilities extend further than that. 

Lars Wismer, director of A+A, International Trade Fair for Safety, Security and Health at Work, talks to us about the world’s leading trade show for the occupational health and safety industry and what makes it stand apart from other events.

Numerous studies show that firefighters’ exposure on the fireground, where smoke and hazardous chemicals are released from burning materials, may increase the risk of certain types of cancer. 

ISN analyzed more than 94,000 recordable incidents from 2017-2021 which showed more than 20,000 SIFs cases consisting of more than 17,000 hospitalizations, 2,773 amputations and 677 fatalities.

Because safety never takes a break, now is the time to take the lessons learned in March and carry them forward all year long. 

A stunning 91% of construction professionals report seeing others in the industry who previously didn’t use new technology on their projects starting to use it.