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EHS Today Industrial Hygiene Insights
Latest news and features impacting the industrial hygiene profession.
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In a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) President Elizabeth L. Pullen, CIH, offers AIHA’s expertise and assistance as GAO considers investigations to assess OSHA’s effectiveness.
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Regular maintenance is required to keep your baghouse dust collector operating efficiently. But just like any other maintenance involving industrial equipment and machinery, baghouse maintenance can pose hazards for personnel. Workers who regularly change out filter bags or perform inspections, repairs and other routine procedures must follow the correct safety procedures to remain safe.
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Autopsies of two workers who collapsed and died while repairing a submersible pump in a pump storage tank at a Kennebunkport, Maine, hotel on Sept. 27 reveals they were exposed to high levels of hydrogen sulfide gas. It is suspected that the men did not test the atmosphere before they entered the tank.
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It was a hot, noisy summer for workers at PJ Trailers Manufacturing Co. Inc. and Delco Trailers Co. Inc., a similar company owned by PJ Trailers. Workers at the companies, which have the same president and management, allegedly were exposed to toxic welding fumes, fall hazards, noise hazards, inadequate machine guarding, hazardous dust and a lack of eye protection, among other hazards.
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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) found the lack of safe equipment design, ineffective mechanical integrity programs and a failure to investigate near misses contributed to a series of three accidents that occurred over a 33-hour period on Jan. 22 and 23, 2010, at the DuPont Corp.’s Belle, W.Va., chemical manufacturing plant. The final release – of deadly phosgene gas, which was used as a chemical weapon in World War I – resulted in the death of a worker.
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The Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team concludes BP, Transocean and Halliburton violated federal safety regulations and compensated employees based on how quickly – not how safely – they could bring in a well.
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