Maintaining a safe workplace benefits everyone, in terms of remaining healthy and injury-free from exposure to hazard types common in construction and industry. While the employer ultimately is ...

Hazard identification is an ongoing process that is a critical component of any health and safety program. A common approach of this process is to use the principles of industrial hygiene to recognize ...

Biological hazards, or biohazards, contain living organisms that can pose dangers to human health. In the workplace, these can include blood, human waste, pathogens, and more. Biological hazards are ...

I was resting comfortably (on my laurels) in my office when the operations manager entered holding a bloody, shredded glove. An employee’s hand was pulled into a chain conveyor, but thankfully, her ...

I once had an experience working with a manufacturing operation that included painting processes for the main production line and a small spray-painting area in the repair section. The facility ...

Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and corporate ...

Offshore operations present a unique set of environmental conditions and adverse exposure not observed in a land environment. It is possible to engineer some risks to a very low threshold of ...

Figure 1 shows the distribution of deaths for 11 hazard categories as a percent of total hazard deaths from 1970 - 2004. Heat/drought ranks highest among these hazard categories causing 19.6% of total ...