How to Choose the Best Eye Protection for Your Job
Any job or worksite where your eyes are at risk from flying objects, liquids, gases, or other materials is one where you need to wear protective eyewear. Your regular prescription...
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What do I need for confined space entry & rescue?
Many jobs that involve confined spaces, even if you don’t use them every day, require a basic confined space kit in order to be OSHA compliant. A wide range of...
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Where Should Fixed Gas Monitors Be Mounted?
Gas monitors are designed to detect harmful substances that can affect air quality and put workers at risk. But the monitor needs access to the air in question to do...
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How to Safely Remove Contaminated PPE
Field decontamination can be a complicated process, and it’s one that should be taken very seriously. Proper doffing procedures require a well-trained team to avoid contamination hazards from biological, toxic,...
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Understanding Respirator Ratings
A proper respirator is essential for a wide range of industries with threats to the health and safety of workers. It’s crucial to get the right kind of breathing protection,...
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How to Wear Facial-Hair-Friendly Respirators
Facial hair is just a part of life, but it shouldn’t be a safety hazard. Employers need to make sure their workers have access to reliable OSHA-approved respirators for beards...
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Selecting a Hazmat Suit
Jobs that require a lot of contaminated area cleanup—like asbestos and lead removal—require hazmat suits. Hazmat suits are overall garments that protect workers from chemicals, biological agents, radioactivity, and other...
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How to Pick the Best Safety Gloves for Your Job
Hands are a valuable tool in nearly all workplaces, and proper safety gloves are an important piece of PPE on worksites where there are on-the-job hazards that put workers’ hands...
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How to Select Cut-Resistant Safety Gloves
There’s a lot to consider when shopping for cut resistant gloves, but most importantly, they should protect your hands from cuts, scrapes, and other sharp hazards. To help you narrow...
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How to Fit and Adjust a Fall Arrest Harness
Nothing could be more important than having the right fall protection equipment when working high up off the ground. Your employees need to know that they will be safe if...
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What Kind of Ventilation is Needed for a Confined Space?
Confined space entry comes with plenty of risks. Basements, storage areas, attics, crawl spaces, sewers, tunnels, and other confined spaces reduce the flow of oxygen, which makes it hard to...
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How to Clean Your Gas Monitors
Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, workplaces are cleaning more thoroughly and frequently. If you’re in an industry that uses gas detection equipment, keeping your gas monitors clean is more important...
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How to Select the Best Kevlar Gloves
Developed by DuPont in 1965, yarns made from Kevlar remain a very popular component in manufacturing protective safety gloves. Kevlar combines light weight with high tensile strength, along with heat...
