Practical EHS Tips, News & Advice. Updated Daily.
In last Friday’s Advisor, we looked at the need to prepare your employees for the virtual learning environment. In today’s Advisor, we look at the need to prepare yourself to train in the virtual learning environment. "Trainers need to prepare themselves to facilitate and to engage with an audience they don’t see," says Cindy Huggett, […]
EPA has proposed to phase out vapor monitoring and groundwater monitoring as methods of release detection for tanks and piping within five years of rule implementation. What is vapor and groundwater monitoring? Monitoring for vapors in the soil and for product in groundwater must meet EPA regulation 40 CFR 280.43. Vapor monitoring. Vapor monitors sense […]
An accident or injury is an unwelcome event at any workplace. But organizations that take strategic steps can use information about the incident to prevent similar events in the future. Hernani Veloso Neto of the University of Porto, Portugal, published research on the subject of accident prevention strategies in the March issue of the International […]
Injury and illness prevention is always a big issue for safety professionals especially when incidents result in days away from work. Many companies are responding with injury and illness prevention plans. According to BLS, the total number of injury and illness cases requiring days away from work to recuperate was in 2011(the most recent year […]
Medical surveillance is a fundamental strategy for optimizing employee health, says OSHA, which is why it is required in a number of general industry standards and recommended in other cases, such as when employees work with nanomaterials (yesterday’s topic). Although the terms medical screening and medical surveillance are often used interchangeably, they are actually distinct […]
OSHA has not issued regulations for most nanomaterials, but that doesn’t mean the agency is unconcerned about the hazards of working with these super-tiny particles. So how small is "nano"? A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. A sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick. And there are 25,400,000 nanometers in one inch. […]
Virtual training is an effective new way to train … as long as learners are ready to engage with the new training environment. Today’s Advisor presents part one of a two-part series in which we hear from one expert on virtual learning. When making the move to virtual training, "we, as trainers, often get caught […]