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In December, OSHA announced that its inspectors will now wear safety helmets instead of traditional hard hats. This has led to “a future that includes Type II safety helmets,” said Kim Litchford, product development manager, head protection, at Cintas.

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It used to be that women were told to order men’s sizes “but smaller” when shopping for personal protective equipment and clothing.

March is National Ladder Safety Month. What, at the core, is ladder safety? “Ladder safety is based on selecting the correct ladder for the job and using it as instructed by the on-product labels,” said Mike Van Bree, vice president of the Chicago-based American Ladder Institute and director of product safety and engineering at Louisville Ladder in Louisville, KY.