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OSHA Update: OSHA has unveiled its latest National Emphasis Program (NEP), the Process Safety Management (PSM) Covered Chemical Facilities National Emphasis Program. This program targets workplaces that could potentially release highly hazardous chemicals by evaluating their compliance of the PSM standard (29 CFR 1910.119). The only NAICS that has been excluded is 32411 [...] Sweatshop Conditions in Global Garment Factories – Efforts to Eliminate these Conditions Last week I was fortunate to have attended a series of presentations about eliminating sweatshop conditions in global supply chains at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference. The goal of these presentations was to inform the occupational health and safety [...] Businesses, Charities & Groups that Can Help You be Green Everybody’s jumping on the Green bandwagon and there is a lot of information out there about just how to do that – maybe too much information for the average busier than busy American. It reminds me of the Nilssen song from Midnight [...] Swine Flu Webinar: Planning, Prevention and Response EHSWire.com contributing writer Dale Wilson, CIH LEED AP, touched on the Swine Flu subject last week in his post – “The Swine Flu Panic: Were You Ready?: Pandemic Response Planning for Businesses”. In this post he spoke about many issues that were either left out, or pushed back in [...] Pandemic Response Planning for Businesses By: Dale Wilson – CIH, LEED AP The Swine Flu (H1N1 influenza A) outbreak has created a firestorm of media coverage, but the news focus has concentrated mostly on the possible effects on families, schools, hospitals and communities. All kinds of advice has been released to the public about precautions-with [...] The Importance of Effective and Understandable Training At The Workplace My interest in bilingual safety training started the day I entered a construction site in which a number of Spanish-speaking employees were working in a trench excavated from green soil. As a health and safety professional, my attention was immediately drawn to [...] By: John Quatermas – EHS Consultant Working as a Health & Safety Officer (HSO) at a hazardous waste site presents many challenges. It is our job to insure that workers on the site perform their activities in a manner that protects them and the public from injury or illness. Each hazardous waste site has [...] What You Should Know About Access to Your Employment Medical Records A friend recently told me that he might be developing an allergy to his office. We laughed about being allergic to work, but since he knows that I am in an industrial hygienist, he was serious about getting [...] How I Set off the Radiation Detectors at the US / Canadian Border My family owns property in Canada and I have traveled back and forth many times across the Canadian/US border in the Thousand Island region of upper New York State. Coming back into the US on a Sunday [...] |
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