workplace hygiene Articles
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Beryllium Exposure to Workers – OSHA’s New Beryllium Standard in Effect Since 2018
OSHA’s Beryllium Standard In August 2015, OSHA proposed a new rule to further control workers’ exposures to Beryllium. The Beryllium Standard (29CFR1910.1024) went into effect on March 10, 2017. The exposure assessment provisions went into effect on March 12, 2018. The change rooms and showers provision are to go into effect on March 11, 2019, and the engineering controls requirement ...
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Beryllium Exposure to Workers – OSHA Proposes New Beryllium Standard
In August 2015, OSHA proposed a new rule to further control workers’ exposures to beryllium. The Beryllium Standard (29 CFR 1910.1024) went into effect on March 10, 2017. The exposure assessment provision went into effect on March 12, 2018. The change rooms and showers provisions go into effect on March 11, 2019 and the engineering controls requirement go into effect on March 10, 2020. Most ...
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What is a Breathing or Respiratory Zone?
In the past, vehicle exhaust gas detectors have been installed on or near the ceiling. In contrary, Critical Environment Technologies Canada Inc. (CETCI) has always recommended that they be installed in the breathing zone. Recently, Quebec’s regulation has reinforced CETCI’s recommendations. It states that “dusts, gases, fumes, vapours and mists found in the workplace ...
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Industrial Hygiene in the Age of the Coronavirus
News about the Coronavirus is practically inescapable these days. The virus has seemed to come from out of nowhere and is causing many people to panic. And although there are still many questions about the virus, one thing is certain – It is communicable. Thus, it is important for people who work around others, and this is most of us, to know how to create as safe and as hygienic a ...
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On PM 2.5 Filters, Let’s just clear the air between us; ok?
In the area of a former military building complex in the Chaoyang District of Beijing is a unique and thriving artistic community. In the middle of this art district, is a strange 7-meter tall tower shaped like an avant-garde metallic pineapple. Designed by Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde, it is both an artistic creation and a functional tool meant to test a possible solution for Beijing’s ...
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Forward Focus: The Future of Industrial Hygiene, Part 1
The evolution of industrial hygiene includes improving the ability to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, control and confirm worker protection—across all of the industries that serve this growing field. Industrial Hygiene in the Workplace reached out to numerous companies for expert opinions on a range of subjects that affect how the field will change going forward and, most importantly, the ...
By Cority
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The Way Ahead: the Future of Industrial Hygiene, Part 2
Industrial Hygiene in the Workplace reached out to numerous companies for expert opinions on a range of subjects that affect how industrial hygiene and safety will change going forward and, most importantly, the issues and challenges ahead. The evolution of industrial hygiene includes improving the ability to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, control and confirm worker protection-across all of the ...
By Cority
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I need an Industrial Hygiene Survey, What do I do?
Industrial Hygiene Surveys for Industry We have over 40 years of experience in performing Industrial Hygiene Surveys for industry. Also known as Occupational Health Surveys, the objective of such surveys is to identify and evaluate any potential health risks to workers in industrial locations, construction sites, or government institutions. Identification and Potential Risk Factors The first ...
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Tackling Occupational Hygiene
The collective movement for solving issues surrounding work related ill health continues to gain momentum, highlighted in the HSE Help GB Work Well Scheme calling for ‘greater awareness of the harm, costs and preventability of the issue’ which should ‘drive collective action to improve health outcomes’. In an effort to raise awareness of dangerous substances in the ...
By Casella
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Portable lead analyzer to locate source of lead
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the sources of lead in the environment in children with elevated blood, with the help of a Field Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer. METHODS: One hundred and seven school children were chosen for this study on a random basis, from Mangalore and Karnataka. Their blood lead was analyzed. Of the cases analyzed, 10 students whose blood lead level was more ...
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