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Maureen Paraventi

Maureen Paraventi

Maureen Paraventi is Web Editor of ISHN.

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Hearing Protection Fit Testing

Hearing Protection Fit Testing: How NIOSH revolutionized practices

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Maureen Paraventi
October 1, 2019

When loud noises cannot be reduced or eliminated through engineering controls, workers who are exposed to them must use hearing protection devices (HPDs) to conserve their hearing. This notion is not new, nor is the concept that HPDs require fit-testing to be effective.


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regulations

OSHA spells out FR protection specifics

Do your workers understand the hazards?
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Maureen Paraventi
September 12, 2019

Although many employees typically provide some or all of their own work attire, it is the employer who will be issued a citation if a worker who is exposed to electric arc or flame hazards is not wearing flame-resistant (FR) clothing.


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train

50th anniversary of fatal train crash – and PTC still elusive

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Maureen Paraventi
August 20, 2019
If a federal agency can be frustrated, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is frustrated. The NTSB is commemorating a five decades old railroad tragedy today, and pointing out that the safety recommendation it made in the wake of that incident remains largely unadopted, mostly due to Congressional interference. After investigating a 1969 train collision in Darien, Connecticut that killed four people and injured 43 others, the NTSB issued – for the first time - a recommendation related to positive train control (PTC),
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Smart glasses,safer workers?

Great potential to reduce exposures and injuries, but there are concerns

Smart glasses, safer workers?
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Maureen Paraventi
June 4, 2019

Stars in the rapidly evolving field of wearable technology, “smart” glasses allow wearers to perform a myriad of functions while keeping their hands free. Wearers can view information, watch and record videos, summon up GPS directions, make phone calls and send texts – all by using gestures, head motions and voice commands.


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fitness

How to lower your stroke risk

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Maureen Paraventi
June 4, 2019
A billionaire and a famous actor both experienced the same health emergency recently – one that surprised many people, given their relatively young ages. One survived, one did not. The two high profile incidents involving Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and actor Luke Perry have drawn renewed attention to the danger of strokes, which strike about 700,000 Americans a year, according to WebMD.
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marijuana

Workplace fatalities sharply lower in states that have legalized medical marijuana

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Maureen Paraventi
June 4, 2019
Workplace fatalities have fallen by an average of 19.5 percent in the 29 states and District of Columbia that have legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Those surprising results from a study in the International Journal of Drug Policy run counter to post-legalization predictions that marijuana’s effects on motor skills and cognitive function would cause an increase in workplace accidents.
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gun

Gunned down at work

Why did a Virginia Beach employee open fire in his workplace?
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Maureen Paraventi
June 3, 2019
As the families of the dozen people DeWayne Craddock shot to death on Friday plan their funerals, authorities try to determine what motivated the 40-year-old to bring guns into the Virginia Beach City municipal building and open fire. Eleven of the victims were co-workers of Craddock’s.
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robot

OSHA in the age of robotics

Evolving tech may bring changes to 30-year-old LOTO rule
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Maureen Paraventi
May 30, 2019

OSHA’s recent call for comments that may be used to help update its Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) standard highlights an area of growing concern for safety professionals: robotics-human interaction. When the agency’s Control of Hazardous Energy (LOTO) standard was issued in 1989, industrial robots were in use – primarily in manufacturing – but they bore little resemblance to their modern day counterparts. In the 1960s, '70s and '80s, industrial robots were capable of gripping objects, moving them from one point to another and performing assembly tasks.


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drone

FAA warns airports about installing drone detectors

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Maureen Paraventi
May 15, 2019
Detecting drones near airports is one thing. Taking them out is another, prohibited, thing. That’s the message the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is communicating to U.S. airports who, frustrated by the incursion of drones into their airspace, are or are considering installing devices which could detect the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
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justice

Company illegally fired employees after amputation

Co-workers who cooperated with OSHA terminated
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Maureen Paraventi
May 9, 2019
Five years of legal wrangling following a workplace amputation – in which retaliation, intrigue and secret photos played a part – ended recently with a decision by a federal jury in Pennsylvania. The jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that Lloyd Industries Inc. and its owner, William P. Lloyd, unlawfully fired two employees because of their involvement in an OSHA investigation.
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