disposable glove News

A combination of upgrading and enforcement of infection prevention standards coupled with an expanding volume of hospital, surgical and outpatient procedures will promote overall gains in the global market for disposable medical supplies. Disposable medical gloves, a segment of this market, will continue to flourish despite increasing raw material costs and severe cost-cutting measures in the ...

Nov. 16, 2012

By Global Information, Inc. (GII)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released guidance recommending that schools take steps to reduce potential exposures to PCBs from older fluorescent lighting fixtures. The guidance, part of EPA’s ongoing efforts to address potential PCB exposures in schools, is based on evidence that the older ballasts contain PCBs that can leak when the ballasts fail, leading to ...

Dec. 29, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Revenues for suppliers of cleanroom hardware and consumables will exceed $10.3 billion in 2011. This is the latest forecast in the McIlvaine continuously updated Cleanroom World Markets report. www.mcilvainecompany.com. The hardware revenues will be smaller than the consumables. Consumables revenues are steadily increasing, but hardware revenues follow the ...

Jan. 23, 2011

By The McIlvaine Company

Endecom UK, a subsidiary of waste management firm Sita UK, has applied for planning permission to build the UK’s first purpose-built low level waste disposal facility to be built in West Cumbria. The proposed Keekle Head site will be used to primarily dispose of construction and demolition waste such as rubble, contaminated soil, concrete and overalls, gloves and boots, mainly resulting from the ...

Dec. 22, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, aseptically packaged food, flat panels, solar cells and others who need ultraclean working space will spend $7 billion next year for consumables which are specifically designed for ultraclean applications. This is the most recent forecast in the McIlvaine report World Cleanroom Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) ...

Oct. 31, 2012

By The McIlvaine Company

The MACK Group, LLC Completes Plaster Silica Removal within Active Laboratory FacilityThe MACK Group, LLC, a premier asbestos abatement, mold, lead, biological, chemical and demolition contractor recently completed the removal of plaster silica ceiling and walls within an active laboratory facility in New Jersey.A large Fortune 500 pharmaceutical client needed 15,000 square feet of former ...

Mar. 16, 2009

By MACK Group, LLC

In an EPA settlement, Dura Bond Pipe, LLC, located in Steelton, Pa., has agreed to pay a $45,040 penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at its metal coating facility in Steelton, Pennsylvania. EPA cited Dura Bond Pipe for violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the federal law governing the treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste. RCRA ...

Nov. 10, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Volunteers from Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger and Union Counties are needed for a Norris Lake Clean Up on Saturday, March 23, 2013 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. During past cleanups volunteers have collected and properly disposed of typical house hold trash, tires, couches, televisions, kitchen appliances and construction materials including siding and shingles. All of these items would have ...

Mar. 1, 2013

According to city officials in Fresno, California, 90 police department employees were exposed to asbestos when the mineral fiber was disturbed during the installation of fire-suppression equipment in the department’s communication center. The construction crews had been working at the site since September 14, 2008 and recently discovered materials that possibly contained asbestos. Officials were ...

Sep. 28, 2009

Safely and methodically, piece by piece, workers at the Hanford site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant are surpassing goals for removing hazardous tanks once used in the plutonium production process. EM’s Richland Operations Office and ...

Jul. 29, 2014

By US Department of Energy

Global Cleanroom Consumables Market 2014-2018 with a CAGR of 4.95 percent for the period 2013-2018. Several driving factors and trends will contribute to this growth—all of which will be outlined with detail in this report. Full Report With TOC ...

Dec. 4, 2013

On May 16, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promulgated, through a direct final rule, significant new use rules (SNUR) for 55 chemical substances that were the subject of premanufacture notices (PMN), including functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNT) (generic). EPA states that it determined that any use of the functionalized CNTs without the use of impervious gloves, where there ...

May 18, 2016

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Earlier this month, MSNBC published a story about pets being blamed for illnesses in 41 states.  According to the article, “Salmonella in water frogs sickens 217, mostly kids”, a single breeder from California has been identified as the source of the outbreak caused by the Salmonella. The article reports, “Infections have been detected in people ages less ...

Apr. 14, 2011

By EMSL Analytical, Inc.

Emergency ambulance workers must concern themselves first with the needs of the people who depend on them. Employees working at a North Lima medical transport company also had to worry about the dangers of infection and disease because their employer failed to protect them. U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found that Lifefleet LLC did not properly ...

Aug. 11, 2015

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Ion Science introduces the new ground breaking PhoCheck Tiger photoionisation detector (PID) for rapid, accurate detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). A significant development in PID, the instrument’s powerful software and performance features set new industry standards for hand held VOC detection. The instrument’s revolutionary PID technology provides a dynamic detection range of ...

Jan. 29, 2010

By Ion Science Ltd.

Ion Science introduces the new ground breaking PhoCheck Tiger photoionisation detector (PID) for rapid, accurate detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). A significant development in PID, the instrument’s powerful software and performance features set new industry standards for hand held VOC detection. The instrument’s revolutionary PID technology provides a dynamic detection range of 1 ...

Jan. 20, 2010

By Ion Science Ltd.

West Hartford Stairs and Cabinets has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 16 serious violations of workplace safety and health standards at its 17 Main St. manufacturing plant in Newington. This follows inspections conducted by OSHA's Hartford Area Office in response to an April 14, 2014, incident in which an employee lost parts of two ...

Oct. 7, 2014

By U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

CITGO Petroleum Corporation and its Lubricant Blending and Packaging Plant in Oklahoma City know the meaning of being a good neighbor. On Nov. 12, they partnered with the JFK Neighborhood Association (JFKNA), the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH), The Debra Rothe Group Home and Ron Walters ...

Nov. 16, 2011

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

The Department of Environmental Protection is advising residents whose homes or businesses have been affected by flood waters to take a number of precautions to assure a safe cleanup. "Thousands of people and homes have been impacted by the tragic flooding in the commonwealth over the past several days. It is gut-wrenching to see the many pictures of the devastation, destruction and human ...

Sep. 10, 2011

By Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

If there is something that all laboratories have in common, it is bottles and bottles of chemicals. And if we are not diligent in handling and storing these bottles properly, problems will arise. Those problems can run the gamut from mildly inconvenient to life-threateningly serious. Keep reading to learn how to avoid mishaps from mishandled chemicals. Previous articles laid the groundwork for ...

Jul. 17, 2009

By The Compliance Center (ICC)