Welcome to the DuPont Sustainable Solutions HazCom and GHS Challenge

On Saturday, March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York. The workers, mostly women and young girls, were trapped inside because the factory owners had locked the exit doors to prevent them from leaving to go to the bathroom during their 12-hour shifts (there was no bathroom in the building).

Maybe it’s something in the air. Maybe it’s a once-in-a-blue-moon alignment of the planets. Or maybe it’s just sheer happenstance. Whatever it is, it seems that an inordinately large percentage of recent EHS news has skewed toward the bizarre, the outlandish and the surreal. From the stories that make you scratch your head to the ones that make you question your faith in humanity, we’re taking a look at some of the strangest EHS developments from the past year or so.