THE AUTHORITY ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, HEALTH AND LOSS
PREVENTION
THE AUTHORITY ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, HEALTH AND LOSS
PREVENTION
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The Principles of Green Chemistry
University of Oregon chemist and materials scientist Jim Hutchison, Ph.D., spoke to OccupationalHazards.com about applying green chemistry principles to product and process designs to reduce hazards associated with nanotechnology. |
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CSB Recommends National Fire Code for Hazardous Waste Facilities
In a case study report released on the October 2006 hazardous waste fire at the Environmental Quality Company (EQ) in Apex, North Carolina, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) called for a new national fire code for hazardous waste facilities, as well as providing community emergency planners with more complete and current information about the chemicals such facilities store and handle. |
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Critics Fear New EPA Risk Assessment Can Enable Corporate, Political Manipulation
EPA's newly revised process for assessing health and environmental risks for chemicals enables chemical manufacturers and federal agencies to inject “corporate influence” into determinations that will affect public health, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). |
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International OHS Through the Looking Glass of the Global Economy
In late 2007, a multinational group of EHS professionals traveled to Mexico to observe working conditions at a giant open-pit copper mine in Cananea. What they found shocked them. |
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Anatomy of a Tragedy
On March 23, 2005, tragedy struck BP’s Texas City, Texas, refinery when a cloud of hydrocarbon vapor exploded, killing 15 workers and injuring more than 180 others. Perhaps the real tragedy is that federal investigators believe that the accident – like so many other workplace accidents – was entirely avoidable. |
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Improving Compliance Through Accurate MSDSs and Hazmat Inventory
The challenge today for organizations is to effectively manage their entire chemical inventory so they can stay in compliance and avoid the dangers, fines and fees associated with not doing so. |
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and chemical hazards in food.
Areas of Work
Risk Assessment Strengthening surveillance in countries... Safety - Foot-and-Mouth Disease - Rabies - RIMSA - West Nile Virus - Zoonoses/Animal Health... and Disease Management / Veterinary Public Health / Food Safety
PAHO Regional Program on Food Safety:
Working to Prevent and Control Food-Borne Diseases
Mission... and partners, to evaluate, communicate, and handle risks associated with food-borne hazards
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groups of environmental health hazards must be tackled as priority areashousehold water security, lack of hygiene and poor sanitation, air pollution, vector-borne diseases, chemical hazards....
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Chemical hazards
Many chemical hazards are present in children's homes, schools... are preventable. A number of tools and mechanisms are available to help identify chemical hazards, create... year from acute respiratory infections. ...
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AIHA - Tidewater Local Section
) home page The NIOSH home page The NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards NIOSH International Chemical Safety Cards NIOSH Documentation for Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health Concentrations (IDLHs) Northrup Grumman Newport News The OSHA home page OSHA's Chemical Sampling Information . OSHA's
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