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Training companies include cloud-based training, eLearning, streaming video, and much more. To keep the focus on specialized training companies and associations, we did not include college-degree programs offered by universities.

Gas detection for refrigerant gases and confined spaces and extra comfortable FR jeans were among the top occupational safety and health products featured on ISHN.com this week.

A new standard for construction in the wind energy industry, sobering study results about an understudied, in-the-air group of workers and another city takes on high sodium in restaurants. These were among the top stories featured on ISHN.com this week.

Foot injuries are among the most prevalent incidents in the workplace, with overexertion listed as the No. 11 most frequently reported injury, and slips and trips as the second. The effects are staggering.

If you have an accident, a failure, the easiest thing to do is look whose hand was on the lever. If that is where your root cause analysis stops, that’s a huge mistake,” says Brian Fielkow, JD, CEO of Jetco Delivery, a Houston-based trucking company with more than 100 flatbed and heavy haul trucks.

Industrial vacuum cleaners, a tethering system to prevent dropped objects and foam-lined safety eyewear were the top occupational safety and health products featured on ISHN.com this week.

A major government reorganization, a union drops its health and safety program and the AIHA gets a new Board of Directors. These were among the top stories featured on ISHN.com this week.

For decades, the science and practice of safety has been based on incident-based approaches based on manual processes. Today, even the most digitally advanced companies are still basing their safety processes on data from events that have already occurred.

Regular laceration injuries in the workplace continue to make a compelling claim for adequate cut protection. In 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed cuts, lacerations and punctures were a leading cause of days away from work due to injury.