1. Earlier access. When we find a victim or see a person collapse, we have to recognize the emergency and gain access to help. To save time here, our responders have to be well trained to recognize ...

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 ...

The safety industry is roughly four years into the emergence of Industry 4.0, where data and automation are the established cornerstones. We would all be naïve to think that these efforts will not ...

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 ...

Covers Covers guard openings or holes in walls or walking-working surfaces. An opening is any space that is at least 30 inches high and 18 inches wide [29 CFR 1910.21 (b)]. An opening of this size is ...

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 ...

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.

Last September, our team published an episode of OH&S SafetyPod about Surprise Inspections from OSHA —what you should and shouldn’t do should a Safety Compliance Officer come knocking at your ...