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Items Tagged with 'silica'

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Dust hazard analysis deadline approaches

How to reduce dust exposure for construction workers

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Holly Welles
October 12, 2020

What makes dust so harmful for construction workers is that it’s a combination of particles from various materials used on project sites. These fine grains could be heavy metals, asbestos, pollen, silica and much more. 


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Hearing loss risk at Ohio concrete company

October 15, 2019
Hearing conservation has apparently not been a priority at Prestress Services Industries of Ohio LLC, a full-service structural precast company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Among the 20 safety and health violations found by OSHA inspectors at the company’s Mount Vernon, Ohio concrete production plant: Noise levels in the facility were above the permissible exposure limit, and
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Weekly news round-up

Weekly news round-up

August 25, 2019
Federal agencies propose changes to regulations meant to avoid trucker fatigue and silica exposure; napping at work becomes more popular and researchers uncover a link between insomnia and heart disease. These were among the top occupational safety and health stories featured on ISHN.com this week.
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OSHA under Trump: A status report

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Benita Mehta
May 21, 2018
A panel discussion Monday morning offered some insight into the first 17 months of OSHA under the Trump administration. Some questions that arose include: How has the mission or strategy of the Agency changed? How might these changes at the Agency affect worker safety and health? What do we expect based on the regulatory agendas? How has enforcement been affected?
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PIP offers new expanded lineup of Safety Works® brand respirators

February 23, 2018

Protective Industrial Products, Inc. (PIP) is proud to announce the launch of our new Safety Works® series of Respiratory Products. Working with a longstanding global partner, this comprehensive line expands PIP’s offering to include 40 respiratory products including P100 and N100 fltering face pieces, as well as, half and full mask air-purifying respirators with multiple flters and cartridges.


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Europeans ponder workplace v. home health inequalities

November 28, 2017
‘Workplaces are not merely spaces where people work – they are spaces where people live their lives. Anything which would be prohibited on grounds of consumer health or environmental protection should also be prohibited in workplaces.’ These were the words with which Laurent Vogel, a researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), closed the ‘Work and Cancer’ conference organised by the ETUI in November in Brussels.
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No emergency showers, PPE for costume jewelry industry workers

November 17, 2015
A lack of emergency shower and eye wash facilities were among the safety deficiencies found by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in an investigation into the potential hazards in the Rhode Island Jewelry Industry.
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Industrial hygiene practices

Industrial hygiene practices are often overlooked on oil and gas fields

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Dave Johnson
November 3, 2015

A 57-year-old trucker with five children was found by fellow oil workers slumped over dead next to a tank hatch at an oil well near Ardmore, Okla., on March 20, 2014


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What’s on tap for OSHA standards-setting?

June 1, 2015
American Industrial Hygiene Association Director of Government Affairs Aaron Trippler gives industrial hygienists this update on OSHA standards action. Beryllium: The OSHA draft of this proposed rule to reduce the exposure to beryllium remains at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) – under review.
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OSHA longshot standards ideas – Wait until next time…

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Dave Johnson
May 28, 2015

OSHA recently published its Spring 2015 Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda. The agenda contains more than two-dozen standards initiatives in various phases of development. Since it takes years for the agency to move a standard through all the phases and approval processes, the reg agenda is always something of a wish list.


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