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For Your Health & Wellness

August 5, 2019

Wellbeing in the workplace is increasingly important, with good employee health and happiness increasingly linked to better performance and productivity.

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Safety yesterday, today & tomorrow

Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge took 14 years—and multiple lives

August 5, 2019

Fourteen tons of fireworks illuminated the New York night on May 24, 1883, to celebrate the completion of one of the greatest engineering feats of the Gilded Age—the Brooklyn Bridge.

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OSHA has cited Northridge Construction Corp. for willful and serious violations of workplace safety standards at the company's headquarters in East Patchogue, New York. The company faces $224,620 in penalties.

Using graphs to improve studies of work exposures in pregnancy

August 5, 2019

Workers often tend to be healthier and live longer than their unemployed peers, who may be unable to work due to illness or other issues. A recent study by NIOSH and a university partner aimed to understand how to account for these “healthy worker effects” in studies among pregnant workers.

Top products of the week

August 4, 2019

Technology to enhance machine guarding safety and enhance field operations and new forms of foot protection are the top occupational safety and health products of the week.

Weekly news round-up

August 3, 2019

Heat stroke prevention, working safely while pregnant and an oil refinery fire in Texas were among the top occupational safety and health stories featured on ISHN.com this week.

Poultry industry injuries decreasing

August 2, 2019

Although the injury and illness rate for poultry workers remains higher than for all private industry workers, new Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that the rate is trending downward. The BLS reported that there were approximately 230,000 poultry processing workers in 2016. That year, there was an incident rate of 4.2 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time equivalent workers; higher than the rate for all private industry workers, which was 2.9 per 100.

From the NIOSH Director’s Desk:

Using occupational exposure banding to assess chemicals hazards in the workplace

Someone once said, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”

Dr. John Howard

August 2, 2019

They may have been on to something. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) believes that having the right amount of knowledge helps protect workers from harmful levels of chemicals. For this reason, NIOSH recently released a report on occupational exposure banding to assess chemical hazards in the workplace.

With new and improved features, Rockford Systems' Detect-A-Finger® Gen II offers riveting and welding machine operators improved safety

Next Generation features higher safety rating

August 2, 2019

Rockford Systems, a premier provider of machine safeguarding and combustion safety solutions, today launched the next generation of its Detect-A-Finger® drop-probe device to better safeguard riveting and welding machinery to help operators avoid finger and hand injuries.

Alcumus completes £25m/CAD$40m strategic investment in eCompliance

August 2, 2019

Alcumus, a leading UK-based software-led risk management solution provider, backed by the private equity firm Inflexion, is pleased to announce it has completed a majority investment in eCompliance, a Canadian-based workplace safety SaaS business.