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Study focuses on community to improve worker health

Total Work Health concept extended into neighborhoods

March 27, 2019

Workplaces can play a large role in improving worker health, resulting in improved community health. But, how can workplaces and communities interact to influence the overall health of workers? Can workers in precarious work arrangements, often characterized by low wages and few or no benefits, rely on their communities to help them in protecting and promoting safer and healthier work?

Dust explosion control

Choose the dust explosion protection option that will best protect your systems

Brian Richardson

March 27, 2019

The potential for a combustible dust explosion is a reality in many manufacturing and processing operations, even within a dust collection system itself. An explosion in an unprotected dust collector can fragment the housing and send heat, flames and dangerous projectiles into the workplace.

It’s National Safety Stand-UP Week - for grain handling safety

March 26, 2019

The growing enthusiasm for the annual National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction has given rise to a new, similar event: the National Safety Stand-Up for Grain Safety Week. It’s happening this week. The event is designed to raise awareness about the hazards in the grain handling industry, which include engulfment/entrapment; slip, trip, and fall prevention; mechanical hazards; machine guarding; and lockout/tagout. Demonstrations of those hazards – along with discussions about how to abate them, were held at the Asmark Institute Agricenter in Bloomington, Illinois yesterday.

Managing fatigue in the oil and gas industry

March 26, 2019

The IPIECA – the global oil and gas industry association for advancing environmental and social performance - and the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) have launched a new suite of guidance for the oil and gas industry: ‘Managing fatigue in the workplace’ The guidance includes fatigue management in the workplace, performance indicators for fatigue risk management systems, assessing risks from operator fatigue, and fatigue in fly-in, fly-out operations.

New AVO training location in Houston, Texas!

March 26, 2019

To better serve our customers and students, AVO Training Institute has added an additional training location. The new training location is located at Powell Electrical Systems in Houston, Texas and will be hosting a variety of different AVO electrical maintenance and electrical safety training courses.

Honeywell receives multiple product design awards for new industrial safety products

Ultrasonic gas detector, anti-impact gloves, personal hearing protection, and confined-space body harness selected by independent experts for iF Design, Red Dot and Good Design Best 100 product design competitions.

March 26, 2019

Honeywell (NYSE:HON) today announced that several of its industrial safety products were selected as winners in three separate product design awards recently, including the prestigious iF Design, Red Dot and Good Design Best 100 awards. These awards, each of which attracted hundreds of entries and were judged by an international panel of design experts, recognized Honeywell new product designs in multiple categories for their innovative merits; ergonomical, user-centered design; and aesthetic and emotional appeal.

It’s time to get serious about your Fall Protection Program

Empire Safety can help make it easy

March 26, 2019

On any jobsite on any given day, an accident is waiting to happen. Falls and dropped object injuries are no different. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports over 50,000 struck by falling object incidents every year. Those are only the recorded incidents. What about those that don’t get reported? Doesn’t it make sense to avoid unnecessary injury before it becomes a problem? If you’re looking to better protect your workers from fall related hazards, then it’s time to get serious.

Safety excellence requires a deep dive into goal-setting

You need more than lip service

Cary Usrey

March 26, 2019

Safety excellence is often whispered in hushed tones, akin to the search for the Holy Grail. Everyone seeks it, and many make finding it their life’s quest. But what is ‘it’?

Explosion kills 2 at Fla. ammo maker; company cited

March 25, 2019

OSHA has cited ammunition manufacturer AMTEC Less Lethal Systems Inc. for exposing employees to explosive hazards after an explosion fatally injured two workers at the company’s Perry, Florida, facility. The company faces $188,290 in penalties for multiple serious violations, and a willful violation that carries the maximum penalty allowed.

Nevada considers health care workplace violence prevention bill

March 25, 2019

A bill intended to protect employees in Nevada’s health care industry from workplace violence is getting its first hearing today. The state’s Assembly Commerce and Labor Committee will hear testimony from experts and stakeholders on A.B. 348, which would require health care employers to create comprehensive workplace violence prevention plans and track violent incidents in hospitals and other medical facilities.