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Feet may be the lowest part of the body, but they should be high on your priority list when it comes to hazard protection. The National Safety Council reported that in a recent year workplaces across the country experienced a total of 170,000 foot injuries, 130,000 of them involving days away from work. Because foot […]
One of the benefits of the recent reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was supposed to be the preemption of state programs, meaning that states would not be allowed to pile chemicals on top of the ones regulated on the federal level. Well, that happened—or did it? Today we’ll take a peek at […]
First aid is one of the most common workplace safety issues, yet employers’ obligations are often not as well known as they are for other safety regulations. So we decided it was time to present some typical questions received and answered by the experts at Safety.BLR.com®. Q. How do you know if you need to […]
Spent Foundry Sands Assessment Is Good News Finding ways to safely reuse wastes generated by industry is key to reducing the need for virgin materials and for disposing of the wastes in landfills or other disposal facilities. One such waste is spent foundry sands, which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), now says can be reused […]
The National Safety Council (NSC) recently released a second benchmarking survey of its MSD Solutions Pledge community—the “2023-2024 MSD Solutions Index Pledge Community Report.”The new report showed community members’ progress in addressing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), one of the most pervasive workplace injuries, according to the NSC. The NSC surveyed 44 MSD Pledge members from December […]
Why You Have to Worry About Every AST Just a note before getting into preventing ruptures. Even if some of your ASTs do not contain a hazardous or regulated substance, their failure could damage nearby tanks that do contain hazardous substances and cause releases. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can cite a number […]
Global Methane Initiative—A Trash to Treasure Story, Part 1 According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), methane “accounts for 14 percent of global GHG emissions with an estimated 7,196 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2E) of anthropogenic [manmade] emissions in 2010.” Although methane is emitted in smaller quantities than carbon dioxide (CO2) […]
New Insect Repellent Graphic Will Aid Consumers Using insect repellents to protect against the increasing threat of insect-borne diseases may become as common as using sunscreen to protect against skin cancer. At least that is the hope of the EPA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in their joint effort to encourage the […]
Ah, the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)! For many facilities, the deadline to submit the annual report for 2015 is just a couple of weeks away—July 1. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sits on this enormous pile of data and is finding new and inventive ways of using the information. Will the Agency’s most recent […]