Thinking Beyond the Glove and Up the Arms We talk a lot about hand injuries and the gloves that can help to prevent them. But an area that often gets overlooked is your workers’ arms. Too often, we ...

The ensuing decades have included extensive experience with addressing safety issues and also some formal training in both safety theory and instructional design. Over that time, I have learned, both ...

Class 1 SLMs measure sound over a wider frequency range and meet the requirements of IEC 61672-1:2002 or its equivalent. Typically, they are used for environmental, building acoustics or road vehicle ...

These scenarios play out again and again. A company sets a safety goal, achieves it, holds a drawing or raffle and selects a winner. When one person wins, everyone else loses. It’s true that prize ...

To support this wide range of applications, CEN (the European Standards body) has developed a corresponding series of standards. Use of these standards assists glove manufacturers and suppliers in ...

The photo is a time capsule, a snapshot of the past and a reminder of how work used to be done without safety in mind. As you can imagine, back in 1932, there was no Occupational Safety and Health ...

The key to making new software rollouts successful is good training. Coaxing and coaching employees toward new tech tools is about more than just using the software well; it’s also about change ...

The statistics are a stark reminder that there is a need for change in how the industry views fall protection. Researchers from the NIOSH Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program 1 found ...

The advantages of a personal noise dosimeter are many for the busy professional who may have lots of other hazards to deal with in the workplace. First, today's designs of noise dosimeter are small, ...

Looking at OSHA regulations around energized work, standard number 1910.333 speaks to de-energized parts. Section 1910.333 (a) (1) states, in part, “Live parts to which an employee may be exposed ...

Outreach efforts by the Mexican Consulate to local Hispanic media outlets have helped OSHA deliver important safety messages to more than 750,000 Mexican nationals, Hispanic workers and employers in ...

Core body temperature is traditionally hard to monitor. It involves unpleasant, invasive techniques such as a rectal thermometer or a gastrointestinal pill, which are not feasible on most work sites.