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Is Your Permit to Work System Ready for COVID-19?

COVID-19 has forced some major workplace safety changes. Now Health and Safety personnel need to ask: does everyone doing work onsite understand these measures? The difference between ‘yes’ and ‘no’ involves a well-considered permit to work system. A formal permit to work (PTW) system documents what work is happening, when and where. A workflow tracks permits from issue ...

5 Key Components of Effective Complaints Management Process

“Customer is King” or “Customer is always right” – all these sayings that organizations used to swear by are fading away.No, this doesn’t imply that you are not ...

OSHA Publishes New National Emphasis Program Instructions for Respirable Crystalline Silica

Last month, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published instructions for implementing a National Emphasis Program (NEP) to identify and reduce or eliminate worker exposures to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) in general ...

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Handheld Raman Spectrometer

The TacticID-GP Plus is a field-ready, handheld spectral analyzer designed for rapid, nondestructive chemical identification. This allows the reduction of operational uncertainty and response time. Featuring an intuitive workflow and touch screen, samples can be nondestructively analyzed through opaque and transparent packaging. The sample threat level is displayed prominently to the users, e.g. ...

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Community Wildfire Recovery: Environmental and Public Health Perspectives

In the last five years, wildfires have devastated cities and caused loss of life, lasting health effects, and major property damage for many areas in Western North America. While we may not be able to prevent the disaster, we can build on the recent experience of others directly affected. This conference will bring together public and environmental health providers, emergency responders, experts ...