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Combine hi-vis & FR protection

When working nights & with electrically charged equipment & flammables

March 1, 2017

Workers in utility and oil and gas industries have specific needs for high-visibility and FR protection on the job. They operate in areas with large amounts of electrically charged equipment and flammable materials, often during nighttime and in complex settings.

Flame resistant vs. flame retardant

Resistance depends on fabric structural strength & self-extinguishing properties

Bill Rieth

March 1, 2017

While most of us have never experienced an arc flash or flash fire first hand, it has been proven that these events do occur more commonly than you might think and FR clothing has been proven to greatly enhance your survivability chances should you be exposed to one of these hazards.

Hazard education: What every employee should know about their FR workwear

Mark Saner

March 1, 2017

Selecting the right FR clothing is a vital part of protecting employees against heat- and fire-related hazards, but if employees don’t wear their FR garments properly, the safety benefits are significantly reduced.

Follow the Plan-Do-Study-Act process for safety improvement

Managing & mitigating risk

Tara Bachy

March 1, 2017

Cutting your food at dinner, driving to the store to get milk, walking through puddles on the floor from your shower, and navigating around a dog toy at 2 a.m. have all caused someone varying degrees of pain at some point.

2017 Purchasing Plans Survey

March 1, 2017

ISHN's annual "State of the EHS Nation" reader survey points to where budget money will go in 2017, the overall health of funding departments and initiatives, and specific hazard mitigation priorities.

Construction safety Q&A

All about falls, silica, cranes, overlooked training, confined spaces & best practices

Don Garvey, CIH, CSP

March 1, 2017

Questions about falls, silica, cranes, overlooked training, confined spaces & best practices answered in this article.

DOL proposes delay to beryllium rule effective date

March 1, 2017

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a proposed delay in the effective date of the rule entitled Occupational Exposure to Beryllium, from March 21, 2017, to May 20, 2017. The announcement follows a White House memorandum, entitled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review," issued Jan. 20, 2017, that directed the department to undertake a review of any new or pending regulations and temporarily postpone the date that they would take effect.

Drone sightings in airport zones continue to rise

February 28, 2017

Reports of possible drone sightings to FAA air traffic facilities continued to increase during FY 2016, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). A recent list of pilot, air traffic controller, law enforcement and citizen reports of potential encounters with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) – more popularly called “drones" from February through September 2016 shows 1,274 such reports, 874 for the same period in 2015.

Report from Europe

Making the world of work pay more attention to women’s health

February 28, 2017

The road to equality between men and women in the workplace is still paved with good intentions, but it’s a long and boring road where progress occurs too slowly. That was a common theme among speakers at a European Trade Union Institute seminar on the gender health gap held earlier this month.

Advocacy groups protest regulatory repeal actions

February 27, 2017

Lawmakers’ plans to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal federal regulations are meeting with opposition from the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards.