When you’re not meeting and greeting at NSC Congress & Expo, you may want to take some time to explore the attractions of the host city. There are many. In addition to lots of sunshine, San Diego also boasts a vibrant downtown, a sparkling coastline and lots of shopping and dining options. For starters, you can take surfing lessons in La Jolla, visit the museums of Balboa Park or stroll through the Gaslamp Quarter.
Two speakers at the 2019 NSC Congress & Expo address serious safety and security issues that safety professional must increasingly grapple with. Delivering the Occupational Keynote speech on Tuesday, September 10 from 8 to 9 a.m. will be Jack Jackson, Senior Safety Consultant for SafeStart®. Jackson’s speech is entitled, “It Can Happen Here: Workplace Security.”
In March, 2019, United Piping, Inc, a pipeline construction company based in Duluth, MN and founded in 1997, surpassed a milestone – two million man hours worked without a lost-time injury. Key to this achievement in a hazardous industry is UPI Piping’s strong culture of safety values and practices.
BP has announced it is selling all of its Alaska operations to Hilcorp, a privately-owned company with a troubled safety and environmental track-record.
The $5.6 billion sale includes BP's stakes in the Trans Alaska Pipeline and the Prudhoe Bay oil field, one of the nation's largest and once its most productive oil field, which BP currently operates.
Oil majors and others are coming together more and more to figure out how to best tackle the challenges and opportunities that digital technologies provide. In an area that is particularly critical for all of them to get right, experts joined to discuss how new technologies and digitalization are transforming safety.
Occupational safety and health professionals can transform their company’s safety program from a compliance-driven cost center into a corporate sustainability initiative with help from the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP). ASSP’s comprehensive Safety Standards Toolbox on Sept. 24-25 will give registrants access to four webinars and nearly 50 voluntary national consensus standards that promote industry best practices and address leading causes of citations.
Scott Wert joins sales team for Industrial/Fire Division
September 5, 2019
Streamlight®, a global provider of high-performance lighting tools, announced today that Scott Wert has joined Streamlight as Regional Sales Manager for the Industrial/Fire Division.
SW Safety Solutions Inc, a global leader in high quality, innovative hand protection announces the launch of new single-use and chemical-resistant nitrile gloves with proprietary EcoTek® Biodegradability Technology. Ecotek technology is a nitrile treatment that accelerates break-down in landfills without performance loss.
It was déjà vu all over again for Choice Products USA LLC. Back in 2016, the Eau Claire, Wisconsin cookie dough manufacturer had been cited by OSHA for a number of machine hazards that potentially exposed workers to hazardous energy.
During their latest inspection, OSHA found similar machine hazards, along with a host of others.
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