What’s a myth and what’s the truth when it comes to cut-resistant hand protection? You might be surprised. Protecting your employees from on-the-job hand injuries is hard when you’re faced with the plethora of misinformation, myths and misnomers surrounding personal protective equipment (PPE). Specifically, the misinformation surrounding cut-resistant gloves certainly exacerbate the issue. Content Classification:
Read more →The National Transportation Safety Board issued recommendations to tackle the problem of impaired driving. One of the most important recommendations, to lower the legal blood-alcohol limit to .05 percent, has received support from the American Society of Safety Engineers. In the past several decades, awareness of the dangers of alcohol-impaired driving has increased. However, alcohol-impaired
Read more →OSHA has cited Englewood, N.J.-based Supreme Oil Co.-South for 14 safety and health violations carrying $234,960 in total fines, the agency said. The fines stem from OSHA’s March inspection of the company’s Brundidge, Ala., facility. The agency initiated the inspection because of a complaint and to follow up on an inspection that it conducted in
Read more →Jacie Volkman, MPH, CIC Workplace safety in the healthcare setting focuses a lot on the mantra of “trips, slips, falls and sharps.” One significant daily risk that often is ignored is splashes. Should caring for patients in a healthcare setting be considered a dangerous occupation? Far beyond slips, trips and falls, should we be giving
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