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Air quality concerns prompt safety pause at nuke dump
The manager of the federal government's nuclear waste repository in New Mexico has halted work because of poor air quality in parts of the underground facility. Officials with Nuclear Waste Partnership announced the "safety pause" late Monday after monitoring instruments carried by workers detected elevated levels of carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds. Work won't resume until a plan ...
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Air sampling techniques
Air quality monitoring in the workplace is essential for ensuring excellent working conditions and meeting health and safety requirements. From office buildings to breweries to food storage and processing areas, there is a potential risk of carbon dioxide production and chemical compositions which could prove detrimental to the health of workers. The monitoring of air composition over a period ...
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Diffusive Badges for Personal Exposure Monitoring
We are the Technology Leader in Personal Monitoring Badges, the most cost-effective and convenient way to monitor chemicals in a worker’s personal breathing zone. We also have Laboratories. AT Labs operates AIHA-accredited labs which provide personal air samplers to industrial hygienists and analyze the contents of returned samplers. Assay Technology's Miller-Nelson Services performs ...
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Summer Temperatures Bring Thermal Stressor Risks to Many Workers
With the first day of summer only a week away, many workers in the Northern Hemisphere have already experienced hot weather in their daily routines. Each year, workers in a wide range of industries become sick due to heat-related illnesses and in some extreme circumstances may even die. Heat-related illnesses and deaths are entirely preventable and employers are responsible for providing a ...
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Nuclear Weapons Program Workers Honored
Last summer the U.S. Congress officially designated October 30, 2014, as the National Day of Remembrance for Nuclear Weapons Program Workers, to honor more than 700,000 employees who have worked with the nuclear weapons program since World War II. The designation was proposed by Cold War Patriots, the same organization that created and has supported the day of remembrance since 2009. Events for ...
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Noise measurement device manufacturer celebrates 45 years in business
Pulsar Instruments plc announced today (Monday 3th of Feb.) that it is celebrating its 45th anniversary. Since its inception as an engineer-led concern in Silicon Valley, USA in 1969, Pulsar Instruments has seen extraordinary growth, becoming one of the noise measurement industries’ success stories. It was the first to company to display the sound level on the scale of its noise ...
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Shell Brasil Awards ENSR $4 Million Environmental Licensing Services Contract
Multi-Year Contract Awarded to Support Offshore Drilling Activities RIO DE JANEIRO, Brasil (September 7, 2006) – Shell Brasil awarded ENSR a three-year, $4 million contract for licensing offshore drilling activities in Brasil. ENSR, a leading international environmental firm with offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Venezuela and Bolivia, has provided site assessment, remediation, ...
By AECOM
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EPA Takes Six Years to Phase out Toxic Pesticide AZM
SEATTLE, Washington, November 20, 2006 (ENS) - Over the next six years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, says it will phase out the use of the pesticide AZM, an organophosphate insecticide that poisons farmworkers and injures their children. The chemical substance is azinphos-methyl, AZM, also known as guthion - a neurotoxic organophosphate insecticide. Exposure to ...
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Illinois Company Fined for Respiratory Hazards
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined an Illinois company for exposing workers to respiratory and other hazards. The company, based in Mokena, is subject to proposed fines of over $122,000. One willful health and nine serious safety violations were reported by OSHA. "Failing to identify hazards, provide ...
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Camano Island (WA) Chlorine Release Safely Resolved
During the early hours of January 15, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, at the request of state and local authorities, responded to a reported chlorine gas release at a private residence on Camano Island WA, a rural area 60 miles north of Seattle. According to Camano Island Fire & Rescue (CIFR), who were first on the scene, a local resident was scrapping an old pressurized steel ...
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Preventing Occupational Hazards due to Heat Exposure and Temperature Extremes
July and August are the months that typically bring the hottest outdoor temperatures. These hot and often humid conditions can create health and safety challenges for workers in countless outdoor occupations. Many other workers are subject to hot conditions year-round due to the physical activities of their jobs, contact with heated objects or radiant heat sources. All employers are ...
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Shreveport Plant Installs Fence-line Monitors to Safeguard Workers and Local Community
Calumet Shreveport Lubricant and Waxes, L.L.C., plant will expand a fence-line monitoring system to increase awareness of toxic air releases. The crude refinery and petroleum products facility will also pay a civil penalty of $326,000 to settle nine violations of the Clean Air Act’s (CAA) Risk Management Program uncovered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). From Aug. 15-18, ...
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Knowledge is your Superpower
Our confined space entry and leak check system combines G7, the world's hardest-working connected gas detector, with our new multi-gas pump cartridge, live compliance dashboard and business analytics reporting. Blackline delivers unbeatable value by combining proven connected technology, performance, configurability and a range of service options to meet the needs of every business. More Data, ...
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Single gas detector for early detection of toxic hydrogen sulphide
Personal, wearable instrument alerts workers to exposure of toxic H2S gas providing instantaneous alarms for life-critical safety scenarios It Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) is a fast-acting poison that can desensitize and render the body unconscious in no time. As the human senses are not reliable indicators, wearable gas sensors are necessary for early detection. ION Science’s new ARA ...
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RAE Systems Introduces Industry`s First Cloud-Hosted Real-Time Gas and Radiation Detection Service
RAE Systems, Inc. today announced ProRAE Guardian? CloudServer, the industry's first cloud-hosted service for real-time detection and sharing of gas and radiation data across multiple remote sites. The ProRAE Guardian CloudServer service is designed for gas and radiation detection applications in a broad array of industries that require access to real-time critical gas and radiation detection ...
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The Control of Noise at Work Regulations: 8 years on
The Control of Noise at Work We live in strange times! The Control of Noise at Work regulations, came into effect in April 2006 following the adoption of the European Directive 2003/10/EC. The initiative was developed over time to protect workers' hearing. Indeed the HSE estimates that around 200,000 people in the UK suffer deafness, tinnitus or other ear conditions as a result of exposure to ...
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New beryllium reference material for occupational safety monitoring
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with private industry and other government agencies, have produced a new reference material for beryllium. Beryllium, an exotic metal used as a hardener in high-performance alloys and ceramics, can cause berylliosis—a chronic, incurable and sometimes fatal illness. The new reference material is expected to ...
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Third major UK water authority adopts Blackline Safety G7 to protect its workforce
Breathe Safety awarded £2.0m contract to deploy G7c gas detectors with a five-year service agreement The third of twelve major water and sewerage authorities in the United Kingdom has awarded a £2.0m contract for Blackline Safety’s G7c connected gas detection wearables with a five-year G7 Insight service plan. G7c products and services will be deployed through ...
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RAE Systems Posts Educational Resource for Gulf of Mexico Spill Recovery Workers
Website Provides Information and Phone Numbers to Protect People, Wildlife and Property. SAN JOSE, CA - RAE Systems Inc. (NYSE Amex: RAE), a leader in delivering innovative sensor solutions to serve industrial, energy, environmental, and government safety markets worldwide, announced the launch of new web content to assist the more than 20,000 people deployed in various aspects of the Gulf of ...
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Companies in Puerto Rico have until May to Prepare for OSHA’s New Beryllium Rule
Earlier this month, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a proposed delay in the effective date of the rule entitled Occupational Exposure to Beryllium. The original effective date was to be March 21, 2017, but it has been postponed to May 20, 2017. The amended effective date gives companies and institutions that utilize beryllium and beryllium compounds two more ...
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