Practical Safety and Health Solutions
Employee Exposure Assessments, Safety Personnel Mentoring, and OSHA Compliance
Reusable versus disposable PPE. Both have their assets and defects. Reusable Employees are more likely to use the right glove because it is kept near the use location. The interior of the glove is more likely to become contaminated because the glove is left near the source of contamination, the reason the glove is needed. …
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It is not unusual for an employer to be aware of the employee exposure sampling requirements of standards such as 1910.95 Occupational Noise Exposure, or 1910.1026 Hexavalent Chromium. However, many employers are unaware that this sampling triggers the documentation content and duration requirements of 1910.1020. The records must contain sufficient data to meet the requirements …
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Noise is one of the most common occupational hazards in any industry. While the manufacturing sector is 13% of the American workforce this sector has 72% of all recordable hearing loss cases. Not only does the employee suffer from reduced or lost hearing our economy loses an estimated $242 Million/year in worker’s compensation for the …
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According to the Chinese government’s statistics COVID-19 currently has 2% mortality rate, SARS was 10% and, the usual influenza mortality rate is 0.1%. We live in a progressively “smaller” world. Before we could fly it would have taken months to travel to America from China. During the trip infections contracted there would have already played …
