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One quarter of Americans say they’ve been in a situation where someone needed CPR. If you were one of them, would you know what to do?

“The problem for me became very severe and my head nurse actually called me into her office to discuss it… it had gotten to the point where I was so chronically sleep-deprived that I was falling asleep while I was trying to report off to the on-coming shift. So, I’m sitting there talking about very complicated medical issues, and in the middle of a sentence, I would nod-off."

A pair of OSHA inspectors had just finished a workplace inspection and were heading back to their Providence, Rhode Island office when they caught sight of a dangerous situation at another site.

A new toolkit released jointly by OSHA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety is aimed at helping health care industry employers protect hospital staff from respiratory hazards on the job.

Proposed federal dietary guidelines that point out that eating less meat is good for the planet have drawn approving public comments from tens of thousands of people – and the ire of the meat industry.

Four workers killed by a lethal gas in November 2014 would be alive today had their employer, DuPont, taken steps to protect them, an OSHA investigation found.

Innovative bump caps, a chest harness that keeps communication equipment handy and new cut protection gloves are this week’s top OSH-related products featured on ISHN.com

The cost of clean air, foot-dragging on a beryllium exposure standard by the Office of Management and Budget, and the deadly crash of a speeding train in Philadelphia were among the week’s top OSH, health and public safety stories on ISHN.com.