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gas monitor testing instruments

You need to know your gas monitor testing instruments are reliable

Bump test basics
Rick Pedley
March 2, 2020

Modern day portable gas detectors are quite reliable and accurate. For enhanced worker safety and to be fully compliant there is a little known concept called bump testing. Bump tests are crucial when it comes to protecting your workers from hazardous gases and other air-borne toxins.


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MSA eBlast

Area Monitoring in a Nutshell: Everything You Need to Know

February 27, 2020

Area monitoring is frequently used as a temporary solution to help keep workers safe in industrial facilities where mid-term deployment occurs as well as for confined space entry and far-working locations such as oil and gas platforms.


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AIHA-OSHA

AIHA joins OSHA's Ambassador Program

The program will improve workplace health and safety by sharing information, guidance & providing access to training resources
February 24, 2020
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA®) announced today that it has joined the Ambassador Program of the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The program builds upon OSHA's Alliance Program and will be used to improve workplace health and safety by sharing information and guidance and providing access to vital training resources.
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NIOSH
A NIOSH Science Blog post

Are there nano- and microplastics in the workplace?

February 21, 2020
The growing problem of plastic pollution in the environment is receiving an increasing amount of attention (see article in Nature). Small particles of plastics are often referred to as microplastics (plastic particles smaller than 5 mm [1]) and nanoplastics (the nanoscale fraction of plastic particles). Nano- and microplastic particles (NMPPs) can be formed through environmental and mechanical degradation (the top-down mechanism).
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EHS research

Researchers: Take-home workplace contaminants are a public health hazard

February 3, 2020
Workplace toxins that are inadvertently tracked by employees into their homes serve “as an intriguing example of how occupational conditions can have broader public health consequences,” according to scientists who’ve studied the problem. In Eliminating Take-Home Exposures: Recognizing the Role of Occupational Health and Safety in Broader Community Health, researchers reframe the problem as one arising from unsanitary worker behavior – the current thinking – to a larger issue that needs to be viewed through an ecosocial lens in order to institute effective prevention.
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Weekly news round-up

Weekly news round-up

February 1, 2020
Employers grapple with the coronavirus, flight attendants cheer a proposed comfort animals on planes rule and indoor air quality affects construction workers, too. These were among the top occupational safety and health, environmental health and safety and regulatory stories featured on ISHN.com this week.
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ACGIH

ACGIH® Board ratifies 2020 TLVs®and BEIs®

January 30, 2020
ACGIH® announced today that its Board of Directors ratified the 2020 Threshold Limit Values (TLVs®) for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents and Biological Exposure Indices (BEIs®). The Board also approved recommendations for additions to the Notice of Intended Changes (NIC).
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Resources

ACGIH® releases 2nd edition of Industrial Ventilation: A Manual of Recommended Practice for Operation and Maintenance

January 30, 2020
The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH®) has released Industrial Ventilation: A Manual of Recommended Practice for Operation and Maintenance, 2nd Edition (the O&M Manual), one of over 25 titles featured in the ACGIH® Signature Publications Series.
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ACGIH

ACGIH® presents Fundamentals In Industrial Ventilation & Practical Applications of Useful Equations course

January 30, 2020
ACGIH®, supported by its renowned Industrial Ventilation Committee, will present a popular continuing education course this spring. Fundamentals in Industrial Ventilation & Practical Applications of Useful Equations will be held March 30April 3, 2020 at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Cincinnati-Blue Ash in Cincinnati, Ohio. Register early and save!
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PSG

Pure Safety Group introduces Stronghold Quick-Switch System for dropped objects prevention at World Of Concrete show

Product is part of expanded line up of PSG products moving into new global regions
January 29, 2020
Pure Safety Group™ (PSG) is launching the Stronghold® Quick-Switch® Tool Tether System for the prevention of dropped objects during work at height. The system is based on the proprietary Quick-Switch design, the only technology that allows workers to switch tools from one connection point to another in a single motion to provide a level of dropped objects safety unmatched in the industry.
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