Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) protects the user from heat, chemicals, electrical, airborne particulate matter and biohazards. PPE includes protective clothing, goggles, helmets, and other garments crafted to safeguard the wearer’s body from infection or injury.

Anyone heading into stores – brick and mortar or online – this holiday season should visit SaferProducts.gov, the government’s safety database for household, outdoor and children’s products. That recommendation comes in report by the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Kids in Danger, Public Citizen and U.S. Public Interest Research Group, which analyzed the most dangerous manufacturers and products among the 29,000 incidents submitted over five years.

A worker who reported safety concerns about the zip-line equipment his company manufacturers was terminated for insubordination in violation of federal whistleblower laws, OSHA has found.