Thinking Beyond the Glove and Up the Arms We talk a lot about hand injuries and the gloves that can help to prevent them. But an area that often gets overlooked is your workers’ arms. Too often, we ...

The ensuing decades have included extensive experience with addressing safety issues and also some formal training in both safety theory and instructional design. Over that time, I have learned, both ...

The cabin design can have a big impact on the noise levels during flight. The objective is to be able to predict the acoustic characteristics of a specific cabin design during the conceptual phase so ...

Class 1 SLMs measure sound over a wider frequency range and meet the requirements of IEC 61672-1:2002 or its equivalent. Typically, they are used for environmental, building acoustics or road vehicle ...

Manual checks of machinery conducted in the morning might be too early to catch a rupture that happens later in the day, and there is a limit to the monitoring ability of safety staff. They can be in ...

MORE than 30 million workers are exposed to hazardous noise levels in the workplace. It is estimated that costs just for work-related hearing disability exceed $242 million annually! The National ...

These scenarios play out again and again. A company sets a safety goal, achieves it, holds a drawing or raffle and selects a winner. When one person wins, everyone else loses. It’s true that prize ...

The key to making new software rollouts successful is good training. Coaxing and coaching employees toward new tech tools is about more than just using the software well; it’s also about change ...

To support this wide range of applications, CEN (the European Standards body) has developed a corresponding series of standards. Use of these standards assists glove manufacturers and suppliers in ...

Nuisance Alarms or True Warnings? In many cases, setting action points and alarm set points on gas detectors based on instantaneous readings at low levels causes unwanted, nuisance alarms. Sometimes ...

The statistics are a stark reminder that there is a need for change in how the industry views fall protection. Researchers from the NIOSH Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program 1 found ...

Looking at OSHA regulations around energized work, standard number 1910.333 speaks to de-energized parts. Section 1910.333 (a) (1) states, in part, “Live parts to which an employee may be exposed ...