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...
