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VeriPRO™ Earplug Attenuation Verification Software Highlighted in New Howard Leight MicrositeSperian Hearing Protection has launched a special microsite for its new VeriPRO™ earplug field verification software. The new VeriPRO microsite, at www.howardleightveripro.com, provides visitors with a tour de force of the program, including [...]
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Purchasing safety glasses for your employees, while certainly necessary, is only step one in a complete eye protection program. There’s a lot more to it.
How much more? What is involved in providing a complete eye protection package for your company?
Analysis of the environment [...]
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We go to the gym to get healthy, but increasingly Americans while improving their cardiovascular health and toning up their body, are in fact getting sick as well.
The problem? Germs!
Awareness has been growing to the fact that gyms are actually a hotbed for [...]
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Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is known for his good taste in clothing. He dresses impeccably and always looks his best.
So why is showing up on billboards all over France in something that he himself describes as “It’s yellow, it’s ugly, it doesn’t match [...]
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The release of a new study out of England this week (this week is Child Safety Week in England) informs us that we still have a long way to go in regards to protecting our children.
According to the results of this study (available [...]
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If you routinely drug test new hires and/or do random testing of your employees, you need to know about accutest.
Accutest is a simple, in-house drug test that gives you results in minutes.
If the employee tests positive you simply seal up the container and [...]
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Okay, here’s an idea I wish that I had had.
A safety training website (Safety.blr.com) has dropped the gauntlet and thrown out the challenge… Sign up on their website at http://oshachallenge.blr.com/ and you will receive a weekly email with a question for you to [...]
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An NRR (Noise Reduction Rating) is required on any and all hearing protection sold. It will show up as a number (most often in the high twenties or low thirties) on the side of all earplug or ear muff boxes.
The problem, many argue, is that the number doesn’t properly reflect the real [...]
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Black or dark-brown solid or viscous liquid
Solubility in water at 20°C Insoluble
Solubility in organ solvents Carbon disulfide
That is the description of Asphalt according to the National Toxicology Program.
We drive on it every day, and don’t even notice it if unless it’s fresh and leaving splatters on our vehicle or missing, resulting in a [...]
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To many employers, the name of OSHA or L&I is synonymous with the IRS – a watchdog group that most of us would rather not have looking too closely into our business. To often, they show up only to scrutinize and let us know of all the problems that we need to fix… or else!
OSHA, [...]
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