Category: Environmental

What employers need to know about heat stress

Heat stress is a serious workplace hazard that occurs when the body is unable to cool itself down effectively. This can lead to many health issues ranging from heat rash, cramps, syncope, exhaustion, and stroke.

Preparing for wildfire season

Wildfires are becoming increasingly more common with climate change, and they cause major hazards for both people and businesses. This guide is your secret weapon to protecting employee safety and wellbeing, mitigating business risks and liability, and demonstrating proactive safety leadership.

Bloodborne pathogens exposure control and training

For a bloodborne pathogen to spread, the bodily fluids of an infected person must enter into the bloodstream of another person. The most common cause of transmission in the workplace is when an infected person’s blood enters another person’s bloodstream through an open wound.

Back to basics: OSHA’s process safety management enforcement

Application of the PSM standard was covered extensively in a new directive for OSHA’s compliance safety and health officers (CSHOs). At the end of last year, the agency issued its updated enforcement directive, which became effective January 24.

Guide to the EPA ruling to ban chrysotile asbestos

Ridding chrysotile asbestos from the products that are used in many industries is an important step to a healthier future. We’ve developed a comprehensive guide to help you digest the modifications and ensure compliance through the adjustments.

Reducing silica exposure on the job

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), exposure to respirable crystalline silica, or silica, is a serious threat to approximately 300,000 workers in over 75,000 U.S. general industry and maritime workplaces. Approximately one-third of these workers are in high-exposure-risk jobs, such as operations using sand products and certain product manufacturing operations.

EPA compliance: protect your business and the planet

Just about everyone recognizes the value of protecting our natural resources and the general public from harm. Businesses must also recognize that every environmental law provides some form of civil, and in many cases, criminal, penalties.