CGA Announces 2008 Safety Award Winners
The Compressed Gas Association (CGA) recently announced its 2008 Safety Award winners...
Industrial Hygienists Urge Businesses to Prepare for a Pandemic Now
When health experts recently raised the threat level of the swine flu to five, indicating "a strong signal that a pandemic is imminent," some U.S. businesses were just beginning to consider ways to prepare for the potential health, social and economic impact of a flu pandemic...
Testing, Testing: Revalidating the CIH Exam, Re-Envisioning the IH Profession
When a panel of certified industrial hygienists met to discuss updating the CIH exam, they talked about a lot more than testing practices....
Special Challenges with Gas Detection
What Mark Twain wrote about words can apply to a gas monitoring system. 'The difference between what's right and what's almost right is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.'...
Controlling and Removing Static Electricity During Confined Space Entry Ventilation
EHS professionals need a clear, well-defined 'how-to' standard on the proper procedures for controlling and safely removing electrostatic charges during confined space ventilation....
OSHA Initiates Rulemaking on Combustible Dust Hazards
OSHA will issue an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on combustible dust...
AIHA Asks OSHA to Lower Noise Exposure PEL
American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) President Lindsay E. Booher sent a letter to OSHA Acting Assistant Secretary Jordan Barab asking OSHA to lower the Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) for occupational noise...
OSHA Convenes Rulemaking Panel on Diacetyl Exposure
On April 28, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced that OSHA will convene a Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) panel May 5 on a draft proposed rule on occupational exposure to diacetyl and food flavorings containing diacetyl. ...
Safety with Sodium Hypochlorite
The Chlorine Institute Inc. (CI) has published an updated version of its online Sodium Hypochlorite Incompatibility Chart, which provides guidance to avoid accidental mixing of sodium hypochlorite (commonly known as bleach) that could lead to dangerous conditions....
New NIOSH Guidance Aims to Help Protect Health Care Workers from TB
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is offering new technical guidance for using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) systems to help protect health care workers who may have an occupational risk of tuberculosis (TB) infection. ...
AIHA Supports Combustible Dust Legislation, Offers Recommendations
In an April 2 letter to House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) stressed its support of HR 849, legislation that would compel OSHA to issue an interim and final combustible dust standard to help prevent deadly explosions....
NIOSH Issues Updated Nanotechnology Guidance
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) issued an updated and expanded edition of “Approaches to Safe Nanotechnology,” a document that reiterates NIOSH’s standing interim recommendation that employers take prudent measures to control occupational exposures in the manufacture and industrial use of engineered nanomaterials as research explores whether such materials pose work-related health and safety risks....
Scientists Develop New Way of Finding Trapped Miners
University of Utah scientists devised a new way to find miners trapped by cave-ins with a method that involves installing iron plates and sledgehammers at regular intervals inside mines, as well as placing sensitive listening devices on the ground overhead....
New Tool May Assist in Earlier Detection of Asbestos-Related Diseases
Researchers from the National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers (NCVAC) outlined new radiographic approaches that may aid in the detection and diagnosis of asbestos-related lung disease at the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization's annual conference on March 28...
European Workers Face Increasing Health Risks From Hazardous Substances
Contact with a wide range of chemicals and other hazardous substances at work is endangering the health of workers across Europe, according to a new report by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). Experts identified nanotechnology as one of the risks causing the most concern....
AIHA Urges Solis to Consider Worker Safety, Health Issues
In a March 9 letter, the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) asked Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to consider three issues when addressing occupational safety and health: appointing an OSHA leader; ensuring the stimulus package will help create new jobs and offer workplace protections for workers; and striving to update permissible exposure limits (PELs)....
Labor Secretary Solis Takes Action on Diacetyl
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced March 16 the withdrawal of an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) for occupational exposure to food flavorings containing diacetyl. The withdrawal will facilitate OSHA’s timely development of a standard to protect workers from bronchiolitis obliterans, a serious and potentially fatal lung disease associated with such an exposure....
Sustainable Nanotechnology Initiative to Study New Environmental Risks
AECOM Environment and the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) are collaborating on the new Sustainable Nanotechnology Initiative (SNI) at UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management in an effort to understand the environmental risks associated with engineered nanomaterials....
OSHA Proposes $273,000 in Fines against Jamestown, N.Y., Employer for Lack of Asbestos Safeguards
OSHA cited Blackstone Business Enterprises Inc. of Jamestown, N.Y., for 18 alleged willful and serious violations of OSHA standards for failing to protect contract employees against asbestos hazards....
AIHA Forms Limited Liability Companies for Laboratory Programs
The American Industrial Hygiene Association has reorganized its legacy Laboratory Quality Assurance Programs (LQAP) into three separate limited liability companies (LLCs). Effective immediately, AIHA's laboratory activities, once housed under LQAP, will be operated by:...
China Mine Blast Kills 74
A Feb. 22 explosion in the Tunlan Coal Mine in China's Shanxi Province killed 74 people and injured more than 100 others. According to media reports, three mining officials were fired following the incident...
CSB Safety Video Targets Dust Explosion Prevention
To mark the first anniversary of the Imperial Sugar explosion that killed 14 workers in February 2008, CSB Chairman John Bresland released a new video safety message asking federal regulators and businesses to increase efforts to prevent combustible dust fires and explosions....
NIOSH Offers Interim Guidance on Medical Screening, Hazard Surveillance for Workers Exposed to Nanoparticles
On Feb. 13, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) issued interim guidance for medical screening and hazard surveillance for workers potentially exposed to engineered nanoparticles....
New Web Site Offers Resources for NRR Changes
As EPA works to better align Noise Reduction Ratings (NRR) with real-world use of hearing protection, a number of proposed changes to testing, labeling and regulations are underway. The new Web site http://www.NRRUpdate.com provides the latest regulatory updates, expert insights and resources for implementing these new regulations into the workplace. ...
AIHA Calls on Congress to Support a GAO Study on NIOSH
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) recently sent letters to several members of Congress soliciting their support for Congress to request a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of the pros and cons of whether the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) should remain within the organizational structure of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
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