Just imagine 8 million people losing their lives in a single accident. Wouldn’t it be a big tragedy? Surely, a whole country, if not the whole world, would be mourning. While the health care industry has never caused a disaster as big as this, it actually exposes about 8 million workers (at least in [...]

Working with chemicals is always a dangerous business. While not all chemicals are potentially explosive, some can leave your skin burned and beyond repair. Others can blind or even asphyxiate you in a matter of seconds.
Although wearing proper personal protective equipment (PPE) protects you from a chemical’s potential hazards, nothing beats the indispensability [...]

Bring out your respirators and gas masks, everyone! The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries recently warned the public about the threats of carbon monoxide (CO) at the workplace. The Department particularly called upon employers to reduce the hazards of CO poisoning. The message came shortly after the recent incident involving about a [...]

Monday morning was a small tragedy for Attleboro, Massachusetts as an explosion occurred at the Stern-Leach Co. The accident left one worker suffering from chemical burns on over 40% of his body. About 30 workers were decontaminated and 19 were rushed to area hospitals for evaluation.
A spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection [...]

Are you an employee working in a factory or laboratory? Have you heard or encountered a Hazard Communication Program before? If so then you must be someone working with chemicals. Of course I’m not just talking about any kind of chemical here. I mean chemicals listed as hazardous substances.

If you work with [...]

The verdict is in. What used to be OSHA’s proposed penalty of $202,500 against two northwest Missouri companies is now a whopping $242,000. This is a result of an investigation initiated by OSHA after a worker of one of the cited companies died of asphyxiation.
The companies cited for 42 safety and health violations are [...]

In July, we ran an article about the hazards of working on propane cylinders and ammonia. One of our readers commented on it and shared about an anhydrous ammonia accident in Memphis that left her nephew injured and “in very bad shape”.

While we have looked into some facts about ammonia, we have yet [...]

As the summer season approaches, those of you in the air-conditioning industry will be very busy, so I thought that I would do an article on “Legionnaires Disease”. It’s a very real hazard and potentially fatal if the proper precautions are not used. I know it’s not something that comes to mind as you go [...]

What is Carbon Monoxide and is it Poisonous?
We have all seen the news, or read in the papers, stories of people, entire families dying of carbon monoxide poisoning, their space heater had a leak and filled the home with the poison gas, the family was sleeping and never knew it. That is just one extreme [...]

The consequences of improper tank storage :
In this video a large train-car sized storage tank is purposefully imploded to show the danger of not venting your storage tanks. This can lead to serious injuries, as you can clearly see the amount of power involved.

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