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Companies spend about $170 billion a year on costs associated
with workplace injuries and illnesses, and almost $1 billion every week
to injured employees and their medical providers, according to Warren K.
Brown, president of the American Society of Safety Engineers
(ASSE).
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Contact with a wide range of chemicals and other hazardous
substances at work is endangering the health of workers across Europe,
according to a new report by the European Agency for Safety and Health
at Work (EU-OSHA). Experts identified nanotechnology as one of the risks
causing the most concern.
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Even the most well-intended workplace safety programs can
backfire when the program is designed and led from the top of the
organization down. While they may be well-organized and fiscally
responsible, safety programs led from the top down miss the key
ingredient — the authentic buy-in from those who the safety program
affects daily.
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ASIS International and Society for Human Resource Management
(SHRM) are collaborating on the development of a joint Workplace
Violence Prevention and Intervention (WVPI) American National Standard
to provide information and practical methods that will enable an
organization to develop an effective and informed approach to prevention
and intervention.
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Most of the time, people use the stairs in buildings –
especially in high-rise structures – only as a backup for faster
elevators and escalators. During a fire or other emergency, however,
stairs become the primary passage to survival. In a new study,
researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
examined what is known about how stairs work as an emergency evacuation
route. Their answer? Not nearly enough.
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Industry sources estimate that U.S. health care facilities
spend approximately $5.3 billion annually for energy costs alone, and
hospital administrators planning ahead for a new facility would face
considerable escalation of such costs for the foreseeable future. A new
whitepaper details how seeking systematic reductions in energy use by
following Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) criteria,
as Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) did, is one way to effectively
combat rising energy costs.
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3. Which of the following device calibration may need to
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a. MFC
b. Sonic nozzle
c. Bubble meter
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a. +/- 1% of reading
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