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Dust dangers: New compact devices immediately identify exposures

September 1, 2017

A new approach to dust monitoring is starting to spread throughout the industrial hygiene field. It is the use of a device that simultaneously does real-time direct reading combined with standard method in a compact wearable product. The beauty of this type of device is three-fold.

Your personal guide to safety tech disruption

Technology penetrates professional comfort zones

Dave Johnson

September 1, 2017

Among the early EHS technology adopters: Bechtel, Turner, Clark Construction, Allergen, Siemens. There are others, mostly Fortune 500 companies. What EHS technologies are they using?

Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath: an update

August 31, 2017

More deaths have been reported, evacuation centers are packed, gas prices are up and the task of assessing the damage from the historic storm has barely begun. Here are a few stories about the storm and its effects:

Harvey spreads oil industry air pollution in Texas

August 31, 2017

Oil refineries in the Houston area damaged by Hurricane Harvey may have accidentally released millions of pounds of contaminants into the air, according to news reports.

Maximize gas detector features to minimize spare instruments

Michelle Hammons

August 31, 2017

The appropriate safety gear is a critical part of making sure your teams go home safely to their families. It can be tempting to make the decisions based solely on the per-unit purchase price. But when it comes to keeping your people safe, reliability, durability, and usability should be priorities.

Staying safe in a flood

August 29, 2017

Harvey may have been downgraded from hurricane status to tropical storm, but it continues to produce extraordinary amounts of rain, bringing misery to residents of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana. Forecasters say the area can expect heavy rain to persist throughout the Labor Day weekend.

Public health experts slam Trump administration's "anti-evidence policy"

“Now is not the time to silence science”

August 29, 2017

A leading public health organization is criticizing the Trump administration for two recent actions that it says shows “a disregard for science and evidence when it comes to the environment and safeguarding health.”

Weekly news round-up

August 26, 2017

Safety sensitive workers’ health, the high cost of a trench collapse and an OSHA website breach were among the stories featured on ISHN.com this week.

Bottled water ok again in national parks

Environmentalists fuming over reversal

August 25, 2017

The Trump administration has overturned a ban on selling bottled water at national parks that was intended to reduce both plastic pollution and the costs to taxpayers of waste removal.

In Harvey’s path? Tips to help you stay safe

August 25, 2017

With tropical Storm Harvey making its way toward the Texas coastline, the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) is offering up some hurricane safety tips.