NYC Bills Target Bicycle Delivery Safety
The two laws, which take effect July 26, will affect many of the businesses in the New York City area that employ bicycle messengers and delivery personnel....
House Dems Applaud DOL's PPE Decision
The standard has been on hold since 1999, and the decision to release it was prompted by a lawsuit filed by the AFL-CIO and the United Food and Commercial...
Eye Injuries Send 35,000 Workers Home Each Year
Ninety percent of all job-related eye injuries can be prevented by simply wearing the proper eye protection. That's why Prevent Blindness America has...
Labor Department Ordered to Respond to Lawsuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit gave the Labor Department 30 days from the date of its order to respond to the lawsuit,...
Fog Shield Extreme Protection
Informing safety, health and industrial hygiene professionals in the manufacturing, construction, and service sectors about trends, management strategies, regulatory news and new products that help them provide safe and healthy work sites. ...
Disposable Lens Cleaning Stations
Informing safety, health and industrial hygiene professionals in the manufacturing, construction, and service sectors about trends, management strategies, regulatory news and new products that help them provide safe and healthy work sites. ...
Pre-moistened Lens Cleaning Tissues
Informing safety, health and industrial hygiene professionals in the manufacturing, construction, and service sectors about trends, management strategies, regulatory news and new products that help them provide safe and healthy work sites. ...
NSC: Focus on Eye Injury Prevention
"PPE should not be your only protection against eye hazards," said Green, an associate professor at Grand Valley State University. "It should be used...
Keeping an Eye on Lens Coating Technology
Protective eyewear is a crucial part of any safety program and there are many different kinds of eyewear on the market from which to choose. Their design,...
In the Blink of an Eye
When it comes to safety, Kendall Folds, safety director for Duncan Aviation of Lincoln, Neb., has observed that experience often is the best teacher....
Healthy Vision Month Focuses on Workplace Eye Safety
Workplace injuries are a leading cause of eye trauma, vision loss, disability and blindness, according to Paul Sieving, Ph.D., director of vision research...
Beware the Hidden Eye Hazards
Eye injuries in the workplace remain all too common, afflicting more than 700,000 Americans each year. Yet Prevent Blindness America says 90 percent of...
ANSI Standard for Emergency Equipment Updated
A drench shower hidden behind boxes on a cluttered factory floor or a portable eyewash station without flushing fluid can have devastating consequences....
New ANSI Standard for Industrial Head Protection
The standard, ANSI Z87.1-1997 retains the performance requirements for helmets offering top impact protection. This gives employers and users the flexibility...
Eye-opening Safety Improvements
Last year, Occupational Hazards named Chief Industries one of America's Safest Companies. Yet not long ago, Chief Industries' Custom Products Division,...
Don't Lose Sight of Eye Safety
Despite the best efforts of eye protection manufacturers to provide stylish, effective eyewear and safety professionals to ensure employees are protected,...
Head Protection: Don't Abuse the System
Despite their status as the brain's bodyguard, hard hats suffer a lot of abuse. What other type of personal protection is regularly dropped, sat on or...
How Much Eye Protection is Enough?
Most safety professionals agree that workplace eye injuries are preventable. Yet, OSHA estimates that 1,000 eye injuries occur every day in U.S. workplaces,...
New Research Gives Hope for Rehabilitation for Head Injuries
'Severe closed-head injury (CHI), like those caused by car accidents or falls - leading causes of workplace injuries and fatalities - can impair the ability...
PPE: Tools of the Trade
A comprehensive personal protective equipment (PPE) program not only can be one of the easiest safety and health programs your company can implement and...
Hard Hats, Hard Heads
Every day, construction workers see a sign similar to this upon entering a job site: "Hard Hat This Area." Do workers actually pay attention to that sign...
Face Up to Proper Protection
It started as a typical work day for Dan Francis. As a caster at Doe Run Co.'s Resource Recycling Division in Boss, Mo., Francis was casting molten lead...
Reduce Vision Risks With Safety Eyewear
Four or five times a year, people bring safety glasses to me that were damaged in an accident that would have resulted in an eye injury. Lots of glasses...
Eye and Face Protection
Experts claim that more that nine out of 10 eye injuries can be eliminated through the use of eye protection. By any standards, those are pretty good...
