Consensus

Standardized occupational safety and health reporting is seen as a critical step in improving performance and preventing worker injuries and illnesses.

The Plastics Industry Trade Association and the American National Standards Institute recently announced the publication of two revised and approved national standards that contain detailed safety requirements for plastics machinery.

Four years in the making, American National Standard for Conformity Assessment of Safety and Personal Protective Equipment, ANSI/ISEA 125-2014, was approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) on Feb. 5.

ISEA is developing a proposed voluntary personal protective equipment (PPE) conformity assessment standard to help suppliers and end users verify that a product meets performance standard requirements.

On Jan. 5, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released a report on the three deadly fires and explosions that occurred at a Hoeganaes Corp. plant in Gallatin, Tenn., in 2011. The report asserts that the accumulation of fine iron powder in the...