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AboutSafety June 11, 2001 |
Guide To Preventing Hearing Loss Combined exposures to noise and chemicals can cause more hearing loss than exposure to either agent alone. Vibration and extreme heat are also potentially harmful to hearing when combined with noise.  |
AskMen.com Kathleen Blanchard |
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Findings from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery revealed that 13% of men age 20 and 69 suffer from noise-induced hearing loss.  |
IndustryWeek April 18, 2012 |
Setting the Safety Standard Is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration gearing up for a major expansion of its standards-setting power?  |
AboutSafety April 16, 2001 |
Hearing Protection: Can You Read The Label? Ignorance about how to read acoustic performance information means that employers and employees can sometimes assume that the protection given by plugs or muffs is better than it actually is.  |
IndustryWeek March 9, 2010 |
Under Obama, Labor Agencies Beefing up Budgets, Enforcement Some in the manufacturing community worry that an attempt to issue an OSHA ergonomics standard is on the way.  |
AboutSafety June 21, 2001 |
Value Of A Good Hearing Loss Prevention Program When a company has an effective hearing loss prevention program, everyone wins -- the employers, employees and safety and health professionals who implement the program...  |
Food Processing March 2013 Eric Lindstrom |
Do you know your HACCP from your HARPC? FDA's FSMA ruling requires food processors to create risk-based preventive control plans.  |
Job Journal August 31, 2003 Bob Rosner |
Safety on the Job OSHA has cut injuries and illness 40 percent since 1971.  |
AskMen.com March 8, 2005 Eddie Chandler |
Dealing With Noise Pollution What is noise pollution? It can literally make you sick, so how do you minimize it?  |
IndustryWeek January 11, 2012 |
Ergonomics a Good Fit for Safety, Cost Savings Is your company giving ergonomics, the science of fitting workplace conditions and job demands to the capabilities of the working population, the attention it deserves?  |
IndustryWeek March 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz |
OSHA Steps Up Enforcement as Violations Rise Overall workplace safety violations increased in the United States by 6% in 2007 over the previous year, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.  |
IndustryWeek April 21, 2010 Jonathan Katz |
Investigators Eye Refinery Safety BP's safety issues raise questions about how certain manufacturers approach safety management.  |
Food Engineering June 1, 2008 |
New Regs on Tap for Combustible Dust Explosions The Chemical Safety Board has criticized OSHA for not having the tools to conduct ongoing inspections for potential dust explosions in any environment other than grain.  |
Food Processing December 2011 |
MRO Q&A: Building a Safety Program When building a safety program, what are the most recurring problems in industry today to watch out for?  |
Macworld April 2002 Ben Long |
Powerful Photoshop Plug-In Grain Surgery, Visual Infinity's new plug-in for Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and later, is a powerful and easy-to-use noise-manipulation program that lets you remove noise from an image, add noise to an image, and copy one image's noise to another...  |
IndustryWeek May 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz |
OSHA Takes Heat for Refinery Fire Congressional committee says it could have done more to prevent fatal blast.  |
Chemistry World July 24, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
US regulator says DuPont's safety program 'failed' The US government agency that regulates workplace safety is proposing to fine DuPont for the second time in a matter of weeks, because of lapses in its worker safety practices.  |