toxic exposure

Wildfire clean-up crews face multiple health risks

Hazards include toxic inhalation, harmful pollutants, heat exposure

November 8, 2022

Here is a discussion of the short and long-term health risks wildfire clean-up crews face and how local and federal governments are working to make their jobs safer.

Selecting the right respirator

Know your contaminants & exposure levels

Robin Regan

December 4, 2019

Workers in various industries can be exposed to dangerous airborne contaminants. The dangers range from nuisance level dusts to serious, life-threatening exposure, each requiring respiratory products at various levels of protection.

toxic exposures, OSHA permissible exposure limits

Exposure effects explained

New terms & calculations require worker retraining

Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP

February 1, 2019

A basic understanding of the toxicological dose-response curve is a necessity for OHS pros. People fear most what they understand the least. New and vast toxicological information can trigger fear and irrational actions.

Going wireless with gas detection

Ask these questions to select the system that works best

Josh Futrell

August 30, 2018

Almost every homeowner has a toolbox filled with trusted tools to help get the job done. Tools that are reliable, and trusted to perform time and time again. Tools that are easy to use and don’t require instruction manuals. The same is true for safety professionals who keep people safe.

A critical performance check: Bump testing your gas detector

Bryan Szczur

May 3, 2018

You wouldn’t drive a vehicle without putting on your seat belt. You wouldn’t ride a bike without putting on a helmet. You don’t go to bed at night without locking your doors. When it comes to gas detection, safe and simple practices like these are no different.

When to use airline respirators

How to conduct an assessment

Carl McMillan

May 1, 2014

Airline respirators, also known as supplied air respirators (SAR), are used when air purifying respirators (APR) cannot provide sufficient protection from airborne concentrations of the chemical

Clearing the air about powered air-purifying respirators

Grant Rowe

May 1, 2014

Let’s take a look at a few basics that we will call the “ABCs” to help you get started and guide you through the research process.

Wireless gas monitoring predicts safety risks

Dave Lambert

April 30, 2014

Undetected gas leaks and subsequent damage, if uncontrolled and unmonitored, pose a dangerous safety risk to industrial assets and facility workers, as well as to the communities around them.

NIOSH study finds higher cancer rates in firefighters

Excessive mesothelioma cases linked to asbestos exposure

November 6, 2013

A combined population of 30,000 firefighters from three large cities had higher rates of several types of cancers, and of all cancers combined, than the U.S. population as a whole, researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and colleagues found in a new study.

Gas releases lead to $707,000 in fines for Sinclair Refinery

Wyoming OSHA investigates follows worker complaint

November 6, 2013

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration division (OSHA) within the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services (DWS) has cited the Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company with $707,000 in fines for 22 violations found at the company’s Sinclair, Wyoming refinery operation.