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Organic – yes. Safely made – no.

June 3, 2016

A rotating airlock blade severed a 30-year-old worker's three fingertips as he cleaned the machine at a Sussex subsidiary of organic food manufacturer Nature's Path Foods Inc., an incident federal safety investigators found could have been prevented if the machine had been powered down fully.

Eliminate common reasons why employees fall while walking

Karen Hamel

June 1, 2016

Slips and falls to the same level are the second leading cause of lost worktime injuries, and the cause of 171 employee deaths in 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Choosing the right emergency safety showers and eye/facewash stations for every situation

Steve Willock

June 1, 2016

There’s an old saying that the ‘tail should never wag the dog’ and sometimes, in the increasingly litigious world of workplace health and safety, we need to take a step back and consider if the drive for compliance to standards is driving emergency safety showers and eye/facewash manufacturers to develop their products to meet standards rather than the needs of a casualty in an emergency situation.

7 sins of welding

Avoid the most commonly overlooked dangers

Lori Carpenter Robert Tessier Tom Hanus CSP

June 1, 2016

Welding professionals are critical to a wide variety of industries, from the automotive and transportation industries to aerospace, manufacturing, construction and more.

NJ warehouse cited for chemical hazards, HazCom violations

May 23, 2016

A Passaic, New Jersey warehouse operator was cited earlier this month for two dozen safety violations, including failure to have a written hazard assessment and a hazard communication program (including material safety data sheets), a lack of training for employees required to handle hazardous chemicals, fall hazards, inadequate exit signage, lack of machine guarding, electrical hazards, and a failure to provide eyewash facilities.

EHS in the age of robotics

Report from AIHce 2016

Dave Johnson

May 23, 2016

Robots are everywhere these days – from tackling robots on football practice fields to assembly lines to warehouse retrieval systems to surgical operations. At this year’s American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Expo, which kicked off officially Monday in sunny Baltimore, ISHN talked to one expo vendor, RoboVent, about the invasion of robots into the welding field.

Industrial end users: 6 tips to ensure GHS compliance for smaller “down-packed” chemical container labels

Flexible, lower cost options enable printing durable, appropriately-sized GHS, HMIS, NFPA or hybrid labels on demand

Del Williams

May 23, 2016

Industrial end users – from plant, operations, and maintenance managers to janitorial and sanitation supervisors to environmental health and safety (EHS) compliance officers – must now ask if their chemical labels are GHS compliant.

The final HazCom compliance deadline is here

May 20, 2016

The June 1, 2016 deadline past; employers must be in compliance with OSHA’s GHS standard through the updating of alternative workplace labeling and hazard communication program (as necessary), and by providing additional employee training for newly identified physical or health hazards.

Georgia worker severely burned by arc flash

Employers failed to power down cabinet before electrician began work

May 19, 2016

A 48-year-old electrician suffered second and third degree burns to his hands, arms and torso when an arc flash occurred while he was working on an electrical cabinet.

Hazardous chemicals pose secret threat to Houston neighbors

May 19, 2016

All over America and across greater Houston, capital of the nation's petrochemical industry, hundreds of chemicals pose serious threats to public safety at facilities that may be unknown to most neighbors and are largely unpoliced by government at all levels, a yearlong Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1VSg45P) investigation reveals.