worker safety Articles
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On the difficulty of promoting workers' safety behaviour: overcoming the underweighting of routine risks
The paper seeks to explain the seeming paradox whereby workers' safety behaviour during routine work depends largely on supervisory contingencies (i.e. pressures and rewards), rather than on self-preservation. We identify three behavioural tendencies accountable for underweighting of outcomes associated with safe behaviour, i.e. delayed outcomes (i.e. melioration bias), rare or uncertain outcomes ...
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Worker Safety: Sterilisation with Toxic Gas - Case Study
Background The solution was provided for one of the largest companies for worldwide outsourced sterilisation services of medical instruments, packaging for food/pharma, and more. Customer Contract sterilisation service company (Germany, USA, Spain, France, China, UK, ...
By Synspec BV
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Explosion Modeling And Damage Assessment Software
This article will briefly discuss the potential for industrial explosions. It will outline the steps in using one particular type of explosion modeling software called BREEZE® HEXDAM and VEXDAM that is used to predict the human and structural effects of explosions at a facility. Finally, the article will explain how to use this information to ensure workers’ safety and minimize facility damage ...
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The role of the trade unions in fostering safety culture
Trade unions can play a relevant role in managing active policies on safety at work, above all in nuclear activities. Italian experience in safety at work is in the vanguard and has produced noteworthy outcomes. A significant figure is the Safety Workers’ Representative (SWR), directly elected by workers. The SWR has four basic rights: to be informed, to be trained, to be involved and to ...
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OSHA Sustainability Paper Notes Opportunity to Integrate Sustainability and Nanotechnology Research
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released on December 20, 2016, a white paper entitled Sustainability in the Workplace: A New Approach for Advancing Worker Safety and Health. The paper highlights the importance of including worker safety and health in the growing movement toward sustainability and corporate responsibility. According to the paper, research on sustainability ...
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Life in the Data Center: Recognizing Common Hazards for Data Center Workers
Data centers contain critical company infrastructure and private customer information. These assets must be kept secure and functional 24/7 to maintain and enhance company business and brand reputation. But it is not just the data and equipment that is essential to data center functionality—how do companies put worker safety and well-being, along with environmental health and safety (EHS) ...
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Managing Temporary Worker Safety in the Construction Industry
In recent months OSHA and NIOSH have begun cracking down on organizations for their historically lax treatment of temporary workers in regard to safety. The reasoning for this increased attention, along with subsequent stiff fines is twofold. According to Dave Michaels, OSHA’s Assistant Secretary of Labor, there are 23% more temporary workers in the job market than there were before the ...
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Recent Asphalt Institute Article on Pelletized Asphalt Rubber Binders
Asphalt pellets are a different delivery system for liquid polymer asphalt and can be used in a variety of paving operations. Instead of being a liquid, the pellets come in a portable, solid form. They are the size of split peas, and are a combination of asphalt and modifiers, additives and fillers. They can be transported and stored in small bags, "Super Sacks" or in bulk. The pellets are ...
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Dustless Blasting vs Wet Ice & Dry Ice Blasting
Dustless blasting is another method used to strip paint, remove rust, graffiti, and/or prepare surfaces for refinishing. It comes with its own inherit pros & cons that have to be considered before you make a decision on which surface cleaning technology you choose. To keep this simple we’re going to describe each technology in very basic terms and provide links so you can dive deep on ...
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Explosion Modeling: A Blast from the Future
Industrial facilities run like well oiled machines, keeping the pulse of the nation’s economy moving at a steady clip. But on-site explosions slow this pulse, threatening workers’ safety and jeopardizing production. Industry leaders know all too well the devastating effects that explosions can have on a facility. In its 1999 Process Safety Performance Measurement report, the American Petroleum ...
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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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EEB and WWF critical evaluation of REACH Impact Assessment
REACH has been designed to establish a more uniform, more transparent and safer management of chemicals in the European Union. Unacceptable chemicals are to be identified and gradually substituted for safer alternatives, implementing the precautionary principle. At the same time REACH should enhance the functioning of Europe’s internal market, creates a level playing field, fosters innovation ...
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RAND Corporation Assesses NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) posted a RAND Corporation (RAND) report entitled Nanomaterial Safety in the Workplace: Pilot Project for Assessing the Impact of the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center. See http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/files/rand_rr1108.pdf In August 2014, NIOSH asked RAND to help develop and apply a method for assessing its ...
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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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Complete HF Monitoring Solutions for Primary Aluminum Smelters
Aluminium smelting generates large amounts of hydrogen fluoride gas (HF). Worker safety and ambient air quality concerns require that HF be monitored at several locations in smelters. Historically, a variety of methods have been used for HF monitoring. Cassette samplers and wet chemistry techniques, coupled with complex and expensive sampling manifolds have monitored roof-line and scrubber duct ...
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Back to Basics
A refresher on how to properly manage HazMat inventory How are you managing the hazardous materials (HazMat) used, stored, and produced in your facility? That is the question. Unless a facility manager has a multimillion-dollar budget and works in an organization with a cultural commitment to safety and risk management, they're probably managing ever-more-complex rules and requirements with ...
By Verisk 3E
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Gold mine cover structure improves environmental protection while increasing worker safety case study
Located in northern Ontario, near the Town of Cochrane, Detour Lake has more than 15 million ounces of gold in reserves and an expected annual production of over 650,000 ounces. Detour Gold Corporation, a Canadian gold exploration and development company, is the developer. Detour Lake is on track to becoming Canada’s largest operating gold mine. Constructing a cover structure for their ...
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Technology Spotlight: BIONOxSOLVER NOx: An Eco-Friendly Scubbing Solution
NOx scrubber installations employing Bionomic Industries' BIONOxSOLVER have proven to be simpler, safer and considerably more cost effective than systems using sodium sulfide or hydrosulfide scrubbing reagents. Sodium sulfide and hydrosulfide are DOT libeled hazardous compounds that require dealing with major worker safety issues. They are extremely corrosive, causing difficulties in safe ...
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Streamline your Business and Improve Worker Safety by using Contractor Management Software
Managing everything on your own, including projects, teams, and clients may be a nightmare. Contractor Management Software allows you to stay on track with your business so you don't waste time and can focus on the important tasks at hand. With Contractor Management Software, you can run your business without worrying about paperwork, scheduling, or administrative headaches. Assign Jobs to ...
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E-fact 78 - Involving young workers in occupational safety and health
Involving young workers in occupational safety and health (OSH) is a powerful tool to help strengthen workplace safety culture and performance. Getting young people to buy in to the safety culture of a workplace involves engaging them in OSH; empowering them; and giving them a voice that is heard. This E-fact advises how. ...
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