personal protection equipment Articles
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Personal Protection Equipment
What is PPE? PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) can mean many different things, but for most of us today, this means face masks. Whether these are medical-grade face masks to cloth face masks, PPE has become a part of our day to day lives now. Other PPE items relating to Covid-19 can be face shields, gloves, eye protection and medical/hazmat ...
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Personal protective equipment against nanoparticles
Nanomaterials manufacture and use are in full expansion. With them comes an increasing risk for human health, especially at the workplace. Indeed, the early signs of potential toxicity associated with nanotechnologies are piling up. Even if they must be considered as a last resource in a traditional occupational Health & Safety approach, personal protective equipment (PPE) against nanoparticles ...
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Personal Protective Equipment: The Weakest Link in Employee Protection
Look at the Big Picture and Follow Through When Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is provided without training and oversight, the PPE itself can become the hazard. The process starts with Hazard Assessment and Control. PPE is supposed to be a temporary protection until an engineering or work practice control can be put in place to remove the potential for exposure. Example at OSHA ...
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Largest PPE Shortage Since the Start of the Pandemic: Challenges & Solutions
Personal Protection Equipment Shortages and Raised Prices Shortages in personal protection equipment (PPE) is becoming an issue across the United States. Hospitals in the country are facing severe shortages of masks for their staff and patients. The PPE shortage is becoming more dire as states begin to lift mask mandates – cases are likely to spike again due to the relaxed precautions. ...
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Seven Questions Any PPE Training Program Should Answer.
Personal Protective Equipment training programs; we all need to have them for any protective equipment we require our workers to wear. No matter how great we think our training programs are, the proof of the proverbial pudding is in the eating. The measure of a good training program is whether all the workers actually wear the equipment at the right time, in the right place and use it ...
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Industrial hygiene case study
Service performed: Industrial hygiene monitoring at a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility Summary: Our environmental staff performed testing and consulting to determine employee exposure levels to hazardous chemicals at a large manufacturing facility. Engineering controls and personal protective equipment were also evaluated for its effectiveness during the manufacturing process of ...
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Seven questions any PPE Training Program should answer
Personal Protective Equipment training programs; we all need to have them for any protective equipment we require our workers to wear. No matter how great we think our training programs are, the proof of the proverbial pudding is in the eating. The measure of a good training program is whether all the workers actually wear the equipment at the right time, in the right place and use it ...
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Workplace Falls Get Fresh Attention
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is tackling a major source of industrial injuries – slips, trips and falls on workplace surfaces. On May 24, OSHA proposed significant revisions to Subparts D and I of the general industry standards dealing with walking-working surfaces and personal protective equipment (PPE), respectively. This column outlines the reasons why ...
By Acta Group
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Lone workers in the hierarchy of safety controls - Case Study
A large oil and gas producer was in the market to outfit lone workers with new safety equipment at one of its operations in the western United States. Lone worker solutions have come a long way in taking full advantage of current technology. While lone worker solutions are important, they only make up a small portion of the PPE (personal protective equipment) market. “Industrial ...
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What is MRO and Why is It Important?
Beyond the raw materials and equipment needed for production, there’s a lot that goes into a company’s ability to keep things running smoothly. Facilities need to be kept in good condition, production and transportation equipment needs regular maintenance, personal protective equipment inventory needs to be stocked, as does inventory for hand tools, cleaning supplies and everything in ...
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General Public Health Considerations for Responding to Animal Hoarding Cases
Animal hoarding is an under-recognized problem that exists in most communities and adversely impacts the health, welfare, and safety of humans, animals, and the environment. These guidelines address public health and worker safety concerns in handling situations where animal hoarding or other dense concentrations of animals have caused unhealthy and unsafe conditions. Because animal hoarding ...
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Biomedical Waste Generation in Puducherry Government General Hospital and Its Management Implications
In India, not much attention has been paid to the management of biomedical waste (BMW). The present paper describes the collection and disposal of BMW in the Government General Hospital (GH) of Puducherry, India. The authors document (a) the lack of segregation between infectious and noninfectious BMW as well as a failure to implement the prescribed rules for proper management of BMW; (b) ...
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Using Web-Based Collaboration to improve Job Hazard Analysis
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires a hazard analysis of jobs to ensure mitigating controls such as engineering controls, administrative controls and personal protective equipment (PPE) are applied to protect workers from harm. The Departments of Energy, Defense, and Interior have specific standards that require performing hazard analyses. As an Environmental Safety ...
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The Cost Effective Solution Case Study You’ll Never Forget
Thern divisions work together to provide a cost effective solution. The Client: Pinnacle Polymers is a manufacturer of polypropylene pellets, based in Garyville, Louisiana. Polypropylene pellets are a common thermoplastic resin typically used for injection molding applications in various industries such as the manufacturing of person protection equipment for first respondents including those on ...
By Thern Inc
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The Hierarchy of Controls
A step-by-step path to eliminate or reduce hazards. Are you familiar with the Hierarchy of Controls? Featuring an inverted pyramid, it’s a framework and a visual guide for controlling workplace hazards and protecting employees. The hierarchy starts with the controls perceived to be most effective. Then, it moves down to those considered least effective. As defined by NIOSH, the hierarchy ...
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Exposure limits and worker safety - Knowing the correct detection method
Exposure limits and worker safety: Choosing the right personal or portable gas detector Worker health and safety laws have come a long way in recent years. Even in the last few decades introductions of PPE (personal protective equipment), safer working conditions, and limits on exposure to dangerous chemicals and gases have become commonplace. A key part of being able to ensure these safety ...
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Proper Cleaning of Gas Detector Instrument
This guidance provides recommendations on the cleaning and disinfection of Gas Detector equipment. We recommend you use personal protective equipment (PPE) when operating and cleaning your instrument to help reduce risk of infection and contact with viruses.Approved cleaning methods are as follows:Instrument should be powered off when cleaning. Dampen a soft or disposable cloth and clean all ...
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SmartPacks aren’t Just for Food Waste
SmartPack Automatic Trash Compactors are used all around the world in shopping mall food courts, airport terminals, restaurants, sporting venues, museums, medical facilities, universities, and more, to help compact waste at its source. With its stainless steel chamber, no touch automatic door, powerful hydraulics, portable wheeled waste cube, matching decor, and industry leading 11:1 compaction ...
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How Meco Smartanalytics Supports Critical Manufacturing
Big Data is playing a transformative role in most modern industries, proving to have a significant impact in the water purification sector. While the biopharmaceutical industry is continuing to ramp up production in 2021, especially for the manufacture of Covid-19 related products like vaccines, vials, syringes, and personal protective equipment (PPE), high purity water systems are increasingly ...
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A Digital Approach to PPE Management
Many companies are still managing personal protective equipment on paper, while nearly every other aspect of Control of Work system is managed digitally. It’s time to change that. Tech solutions have lagged because PPE is seen as the last line of defense in the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Hierarchy of Controls for hazard prevention. PPE is the final barrier ...
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