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On April 28, the National Safety Council (NSC) announced its annual conference, the Safety Congress & Expo, has been recognized for growth in three categories: attendance, exhibiting companies, and net square feet of exhibition space. Trade Show Executive magazine, which covers the business exhibition industry for trade show and event executives, awarded the NSC’s Congress […]
Fall hazards are common in almost every facility or on every job site. Unfortunately, struggling to meet minimum OSHA fall protection requirements is also common. Fall protection violations have been the leading cause of citation from OSHA since 2010, with violations regarding ladders, scaffolds, and fall protection training requirements also ranking in the top 10 […]
On April 9, the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) announced it’s launching a campaign to restore staff and funding to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently reorganized several agencies, removing NIOSH from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and combining NIOSH […]
On March 4, Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health announced the availability of a five-day, online Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene course covering the foundations of safety practices and professions, which include anticipating, evaluating, preventing, and controlling workplace health and safety hazards. The course runs from July 7 to 11. The course is offered […]
In this installment of EHSDA Shorts, Subena Colligan, CIH, CSP, Principal Coach, S. Colligan Coaching, explains the difference between safety and industrial hygiene.