NIOSH Articles
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Heat Stress
Standards Employer Responsibilities under the OSHA General Duty Clause As per the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Section 5(a)(1) – known as the General Duty Clause – employers are obligated to furnish a workplace for their employees that is “free from recognized hazards that are causing or likely to cause death or serious harm to employees.” Courts have ...
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Preparing for Wildfires
Take steps now to prepare for wildfires. More and more people make their homes in areas that are prone to wildfires. You can take steps to be ready for a wildfire and prepare your home and landscaping to reduce your risk from a wildfire. Know your community’s evacuation ...
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ION Science Introduces Titan 2: The Ultimate Benzene Monitor with Unmatched Sensitivity and Stability
ION Science has launched a new, dramatically upgraded version of Titan, maintaining its position as the only fixed benzene-specific monitor in the world; Titan 2. In accordance with recent legislation changes, Titan 2 offers enhanced stability and sensitivity, supporting ION’s continued mission of protecting lives and preserving the environment. ION Science’s Group Managing ...
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Workplace Violence Research
In the 1980’s a series of shootings at post offices drew public attention towards the issue of workplace violence. While mass shootings receive a lot of media attention, they actually account for a small number of workplace violence events. NIOSH has been studying workplace violence since the 1980s. In 1993, NIOSH released the document Preventing Homicide in the Workplace. This was the ...
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Standing Down to Prevent Falls in Construction
Overview Construction workers are at risk for injuries from many sources, but falls continue to be the leading cause of death (accounting for 37% [379 out of the 1015 fatalities] of all construction fatalities in 2021). This year marks the 10th annual National Safety Stand-Down to prevent falls in construction, an event to raise awareness that falls among construction workers are preventable. ...
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Hearing Protection PPE: Beyond the Basics
Hearing loss is one of many safety issues that permeate almost every workplace but is seldom discussed in the open. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)estimates that roughly 22 million Americans are exposed to hazardous noise levels at work. Additionally, the Hearing Loss Association of America estimates that of the 48 million Americans suffering from some degree of hearing loss, ...
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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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What Is The Importance Of Fume Hood Face Velocity?
The speed at which air is drawn into a fume hood is of great importance for the safe and effective operation of a fume hood. A speed that is too high or too low can compromise the performance of the fume hood, leaving those near the hood in danger. So why does this airspeed matter? What is so significant about the face velocity measurement of a fume hood? What is a Fume Hood Face? If we are going ...
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How to Overcome Hazmat Odor Fade
Here’s a great tool to springboard into refresher hazmat training! Even the most hazmat-phobic firefighter understands that chemical agents are added to odorless natural gas to make it obvious when there’s a leak. Beyond that most baseline of basic knowledge, firefighter understanding how odor agents work and how to detect the danger behind the smell can be all over the map. Whether ...
By HazSim
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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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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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How Top Pharma Companies Evaluate Industry Trends and the Human Element in Containment
ABSTRACT Engineering controls designed to mitigate exposure and create separation between the operator and the toxic material are available in many different forms, all with their own unique advantages and risks. This article will look into various forms of containment while asking the question, is your liability assured or insured? ASSURANCE VS INSURANCE Assurance is defined as a positive ...
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Using a Gas Liquid Porometer to Reliably Measure Pore Size and Distribution for Filter Media Used in Face Masks
Surgical masks and respirators are typically made of nonwoven polypropylene fabric and mostly consist of three (or more) layers. The first and third layers are generally spunbond, while the middle layer is meltblown. This composition is commonly referred to as SMS technology (Spunbond/Meltblown/Spunbond). Three layers of respirator fabric While the efficiency of face masks is measured by ...
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Numerical modeling of rock blasting: Validation tests for Blo-Up 2.5
Abstract: As part of the Hybrid Stress Blast Model (HSBM) project, Itasca has developed software to model the rock blasting process. The code, called Blo-Up 2.5, uses a unique combination of three-dimensional continuous and discontinuous numerical methods to represent the key processes occurring in non-ideal detonation, rock fracturing and muck pile formation. Itasca’s continuum rock ...
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OSHA Gets Smart: Finally Provides Annotated Permissible Exposure Limits
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established to protect people from health and safety hazards found at work. One of OSHA’s most basic resources is its list of PELs: Permissible Exposure Limits that are intended to protect worker health from exposure to toxic materials. PELs are enforceable regulatory limits on the concentration of ...
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Silica Exposures – OSHA Issues Hazard Alert for Workers Manufacturing and Installing Countertops
Both OSHA and NIOSH have noted increases in cases of silicosis in workers manufacturing and installing countertops (http://www.osha.gov/newsrelease/trade-20150218.html) and the OSHA Regulation itself- General Industry-29CFR1910.1053 and Construction 29CFR1926.1153. Countertops can be made of granite, sandstone, quartzite, and composites including sand. The dust created during the cutting, ...
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General Industrial Case Study
A flour milling facility was looking for options to reduce their electrical expense. When evaluating their electrical load they found PD blowers were a significant percentage of the overall load. They opted to evaluate a flour load-out system with a 75hp PD blower for their initial project. The Inovair Drop in Replacement turbo blower provided a solution to their needs. This option also allowed ...
By Inovair
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Offshore Applications - The Role of Gas Detection
Off-shore drilling is a highly hazardous process with dangers from complex equipment and harsh environments. Severe weather as well as toxic gases, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are all present during the extraction process. Toxic gas emissions are a danger in the environments in which offshore applications are found. They create unsafe conditions for personnel from a poisoning and ...
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The Role of Gas Detection in Offshore Applications
Off-shore drilling is a highly hazardous process with dangers of complexes equipment, harsh environments, severe weather as well as toxic gases and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) which can be found mixed in with the products being extracted. Toxic gas emissions are a danger in the environments in which offshore applications are found, creating unsafe conditions for personnel. This results in ...
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Silica Exposure to Workers in Oil and Gas Hydraulic Fracking
Exposure to High Levels of Crystalline Silica Silica exposure to workers is nothing new. Also hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is nothing new either. What’s new is the number of workers exposed to high levels of crystalline silica as the oil and gas “fracking” industry has gone into high gear. The use of a large volume of sand as a proppant—to “prop ...
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