by Susen Trail | May 23, 2020 | Data, Employee Exposure Hazards, Recordkeeping, Sampling results
OSHA’s at the door, do you know where your data is? It is not unusual for an employer to be aware of the employee exposure sampling requirements of standards such as 1910.95 Occupational Noise Exposure, or 1910.1026 Hexavalent Chromium. However, many...
by Susen Trail | May 8, 2020 | Data, Employee Exposure Hazards, Recordkeeping, Sampling results
If you guessed the % from injuries vs how many from illnesses I would bet my COVID-19 stimulus check you would guess wrong. In fact, only 0.013% of the fatalities are from injuries and the remaining 99.86% are illness and the majority of the illnesses are deaths...
by Susen Trail | Apr 26, 2020 | Employee Exposure Hazards
Noise is one of the most common occupational hazards in any industry. While the manufacturing sector is 13% of the American workforce this sector has 72% of all recordable hearing loss cases. Not only does the employee suffer from reduced or lost hearing our economy...
by Susen Trail | Mar 18, 2020 | Comparison of viral pathogens, COVID-19, Data, Employee Exposure Hazards
According to the Chinese government’s statistics COVID-19 currently has 2% mortality rate, SARS was 10% and, the usual influenza mortality rate is 0.1%. We live in a progressively “smaller” world. Before we could fly it would have taken months to travel to America...
