S+H Staff

How can employers ensure outdoor emergency safety fixtures such as eyewashes and drench showers remain operational during freezing conditions?

How should line workers go about setting up a bucket truck or digger derrick in wintry conditions?

How can wearing the wrong gloves increase injury risk more than wearing no gloves at all?

What are some of the unheralded ways that safety signs promote a safe, compliant work environment?

How can employers ensure eyewash-and-faucet combination fixtures meet code, perform safely, and are usable in space-constrained or existing-sink situations?

What’s the best way to manage employees who refuse to wear hand protection?

Olympia, WA — The deaths of 11 landscaping services workers in a five-year period has prompted a hazard alert from the Washington State Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program.

Ideagen, a compliance and risk management software company based in the United Kingdom, has acquired Reactec, an industry-leading provider of innovative wearable technology with intuitive data analytics located in Scotland.

Safety gloves are important for hand protection when on the job, but personal protective equipment only works if worn. If gloves are uncomfortable or get in the way of the job, workers will be discouraged from wearing them and therefore risk injury. Gloves, Personal protective equipment; PPE; PPE, Gloves; Hand protection; Hand safety; Superior Glove

Creation of an official standard on safety knives is a “major development in the safety knife industry,” Carl R. Cottrell II, vice president of sales and marketing at OLFA North America, recently said to Safety+Health.