OELs: There Is No Such Thing as One Size Fits All
The first day of my Ergonomics course at the University of Michigan Professor Strong explained how chairs, mostly not adjustable in those days, were built for a 6′ tall male, which explained a LOT. He went on to point out that 6′ people were not the majority at the time they were producing chairs only […]
Reproductive Hazards
How many people do you know that waited to have kids until after they got more financially secure? So, they work and put money away, buy the house, and then find they have trouble conceiving or bringing a child to term. Data from the 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth studies of women under the […]
Reusable Vs Disposable Personal Protective Equipment
Reusable versus disposable PPE. Both have their assets and defects. Disposable Must be kept in stock and a system to identify and respond when the stock runs low or exceeds the expiration date. The distributor must be relied upon not to run out of the gloves you need. The manufacturer must be relied upon not […]
The Long Term Use of Air and Noise Sampling Records
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 employers are unaware that this sampling triggers the documentation content and duration requirements of 1910.1020. The records must contain sufficient data to meet the requirements […]
Worldwide There Were 2.3 Million Worker Fatalities
If you guessed which group had the higher % of those 2.3 million Occupational fatalities, deaths from injuries or deaths from illnesses, I would bet actual money (which I never do) that you would guess wrong. According to the (link: ILO’s) ILO’s Global Trends on Occupational Accidents and Disease, only14% of the fatalities are from injuries […]
Noise, Adverse Effects, and OSHA Compliance
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 loses an estimated $242 Million/year in worker’s compensation for the […]
IH Assessment of Current Viruses
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 from China. During the trip infections contracted there would have already played […]
