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When you're a nanotechnology start-up company on a tight budget, implementing an EHS program might seem like a pie-in-the-sky proposition. But Tabitha Maher, environmental health and safety facilitator for Reno, Nev.-based Altair Nanotechnologies...
This paper will help clients to comply with the OHSAS 18001 requirements, achieve international recognition and potentially save $ millions in reduced insurance premiums.
It is the purpose of this paper to highlight various communication issues specifically for confined space applications for both emergency and day-to-day work situations. Also to raise the profile of good communication and how it fits into the...
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has issued a report that calls on OSHA to issue a standard aimed at preventing combustible dust explosions and fires, which have killed 119 people and injured 718 since 1980.
At the National Safety Council's 2006 Congress and Expo in San Diego, the director of Johnson & Johnson's Worldwide Health and Safety Group discussed "an empirical model for defining the competency of safety and health professionals and matching...
Noting that the "assessment of exposure [to hazardous substances] in the 20th century was anything but ideal," National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Director Dr. John Howard told attendees of the National Safety Council's...
For employers faced with the challenge of communicating safety to an increasing number of Spanish-speaking workers in the United States, one expert offers the following message: "You don't have to speak Spanish to communicate with a Spanish...
