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Hearing protection compliance

How can equipment selection encourage hearing protection compliance?

Innovations in women’s footwear

What are some recent innovations in women’s footwear that workers and safety pros should consider?

Safety mat

Using weight sensors, pressure-sensitive safety mats detect the presence of workers, vehicles, or production materials and trigger an emergency stop that removes power from hazardous machinery. Only by removing pressure from the mat and switching on the control unit will power be restored to the machine.

Built-in stop panel

When a potentially dangerous process requires synchronous action by both hands to release or maintain the operation of a machine, the Duelco line of 2 Hand Control Stations with E-Stop button will effectively ensure the protection of the operator.
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Headphones

ISOtunes LITE is a Bluetooth earbud with a lightweight design and easy-to-use functionality. It’s designed with ISOtunes’ TRILOGY Universal ear tips that offer an NRR of 26 decibels with secure-fit ear fins. LITE also features multifunction magnetic earbuds that help the band stay around your neck when the ear tips aren’t in use.

OSHA’s standard on walking-working surfaces

What is the OSHA standard on walking-working surfaces for general industry (1910 Subpart D) and why is it important to the safety of workers?

Use of hearing protection iffy among noise-exposed workers: NIOSH

Washington — More than half of workers who are exposed to hazardous noise on the job don’t consistently use hearing protection, results of a recent NIOSH study show.

Trends in … safety knives and tethers

The category of safety tools encompasses many products. Among those are tool tethers and safety knives. Safety+Health spoke with an expert in each area – both of whom had some advice to offer when it comes to working safely with these tools.
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Safety knife line

This line of safety knives has no exposed blades and only cuts cardboard deep to protect employees against lacerations. The patented, specially designed mouth of the Fish series guides material onto and along a surgical steel blade, which slices through bags and sacks and cuts strapping, rope, pallet overwrap and most packaging materials.

Tool lanyard

The Squids 3003 Retractable Tool Lanyard is ANSI/ISEA 121-approved to tether hand tools weighing up to 0.5 pounds in a retracted state and prevent tools weighing up to 2 pounds from becoming falling objects.

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