A 45-year-old pipefitter who was wearing four layers of clothing – including a chemical suit - while he worked died on the job in March at a petroleum refinery in Norco, Lousiana.

When your safety and your life depend on it, you need your equipment to fit properly. This is especially true in the workplace. Improper fit may prevent workers from performing their job duties safely and effectively.

"Inherent” and “treated” are arguably the most overused and misleading terms in the FR world.

The oil industry is being squeezed as declining crude oil prices alter the short-term outlook.

For generations, people accepted that sore, tired feet were just a result of a hard day’s work, and tugging at the unforgiving leather boots to take them off at the end of the day became a symbolic end-of-work ritual that allowed the exhausted worker to finally put their work-weary feet up, before they try and recover until starting the cycle all over again the next morning.

Hard work is deeply rooted in human history. For centuries, men and women have been building the world around us through tough, manual labor.

More than 2,000 people injure their eyes at work each day, according to the nonprofit organization Prevent Blindness.

The oil industry is being squeezed as declining crude oil prices alter the short-term outlook.

"Inherent” and “treated” are arguably the most overused and misleading terms in the FR world.