by Ryan Shaffer | Apr 7, 2019 | Asbestos, Blog, Respiratory Protection
Workplace dangers and asbestos When you’re on a job site, you focus on deadlines, production, and avoiding injury. Remembering to wear a hard hat to protect your head might be easy enough, but do you consider other less visible dangers? If that hard hat is...
by Chris Walter | Mar 4, 2019 | Asbestos, Blog, Hearing Protection, Respiratory Protection, Wellness
New NIOSH tool aims to help hazard recognition in mines The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently released a beta version of new software designed to help miners identify potential safety and health hazards in mines. The EXAMiner...
by Chris Walter | Jan 12, 2019 | Asbestos, Blog, Respiratory Protection, Wellness
Are You Having Trouble Staying Healthy at Work? Stuffy nose, headaches, watering eyes…we have all, at some point in our lives, experienced a change in physical health due to the environmental conditions around us, whether it’s due to the change in weather or...
by Chris Walter | Dec 10, 2018 | Asbestos, Blog, Hearing Protection, Respiratory Protection, Silica, Vision Protection, Wellness
One OSHA Violation Could Lead to Several Citations If your workplace is fined for a single OSHA violation, that doesn’t always mean you’ll get just one citation. Sometimes multiple OSHA standards can apply to a single violation. This can double or even triple...
by Chris Walter | Nov 29, 2018 | Asbestos, Blog, Hearing Protection, Respiratory Protection, Vision Protection, Wellness
Opportunity Cost & Employer Liability Employers are constantly faced with balancing convenience and efficiency with thoroughness and safety on their work sites, but there shouldn’t have to be a compromise between those essentials. Staying OSHA compliant is...
by Chris Walter | Nov 12, 2018 | Asbestos, Blog, Hearing Protection, Respiratory Protection, Silica, Vision Protection, Wellness
New OSHA Program to Target High Injury & Illness Rates Last month, OSHA announced that they are bringing back Site Specific Targeting (SST) that will utilize the 2016 300A data that employers submitted electronically in 2017. This plan, effective on Oct. 16, 2018,...
