To protect personnel in any work environment and to defend against such liability, a growing number of safety professionals are including or specifying headlamps in the company budget, as PPE.

IT is a never-ending battle to get workers to wear any type of personal protective equipment. All types of PPE have their advantages and disadvantages, comforts and discomforts. Getting workers to ...

Proper PPE and Worker Safety Go Hand-in-Hand. Aug. 28, 2020. Hand injuries are among the most common workplace injuries, and they’re also some of the most preventable. Zach Richman. According to the ...

John Meola, safety manager, Timmons Group, shares the latest on personal protective equipment (PPE) on the construction jobsite, and how to ensure workers use it. Gigi Wood May 15, 2020 ...

ARX’s leaders say they leaned on their own experiences and researched how women wear and use gear to create better products.

The survey found that 89 percent of safety professionals polled at the 2008 National Safety Council (NSC) Congress have observed workers failing to wear PPE when they should have been. "We find it ...

Appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) must be available to anyone who comes in contact with a potential work safety hazard. This can include hard hats, protective eyewear, earplugs ...

(Personal Protective Equipment in Construction, 89 Fed. Reg., 100333 (December 12, 2024)) However, most construction workwear and PPE for concrete workers are designed for men.

A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology shows the design of personal protective equipment for infectious diseases is not very user friendly, which is problematic, given its ...

On NAMASTE Day, Union Minister BL Verma launched a helpline for waste pickers and distributed PPE kits and Ayushman cards to sanitation workers. The event highlighted the government's commitment to ...

A non-profit group called "Get Us PPE" reported that requests from health care workers seeking the equipment rose 260% between November and December. Dr. Ann Victory said at MidMichigan Health ...

The importance of personal protective equipment (PPE) in maintaining workplace health and safety cannot be overstated. However, a critical issue currently unaddressed is the inadequacy of PPE ...