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Why Your Employees Don't Wear Their Safety Glasses
We all know the best type of safety gear is the kind workers want to wear. There are piles of brightly colored vests and harnesses and hard plastic safety glasses...
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OSHA Compliance for Residential Roofing and Construction
OSHA changed the rules for residential construction workers on March 15th, 2013. No longer will they be issuing reduced fines, helpful hints, and consultations on compliance with the fall protection...
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All Petzl Rope Access Equipment 20%
Through June 16th, 2013 all the Petzl equipment we sell on pksafety.com is 20% off. Find out more from our video. And see the president of our company rappelling down...
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What You Need To Protect Yourself from the Hantavirus
We've had several customers ask about protection from the Hantavirus. Infection with hantavirus comes from contact with infected rodents and can develop into Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), which can be...
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A Single-Gas Monitor Without a Two-Year Lifespan
Not everybody wants a two-year disposable single-gas monitor for hydrogen sulfide or carbon monoxide detection. Many of today's single gas monitors come with a fixed life span. This type of...
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CDC Provides Safety Equipment List for Tornado Clean-Up Crews
Tornadoes like the ones that ripped through Oklahoma this week leave clean-up crews with thousands of tons of building materials strewn across the landscape and the potential for respiratory and...
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The Best Hard Hat for Warm Weather
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is seldom comfortable. Typically workers would rather not be bothered. That's one reason OSHA mandates compliance for certain workers. At height workers require not only fall...
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Continuous Gas Monitoring: Using a Gas Monitor in Continuous Operation Mode
Some jobs require continuous gas monitoring of a space over time. Monitors like the Eagle 2 from RKI Instruments are designed to be used in this way, they are not...
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What is the Best Protection From Lead Dust?
A customer recently wrote to us asking about protection from lead dust. Here is his question, and our response: I have been melting lead wheel weights as well as other...
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MythBusters Use Fall Protection in Cliffhanger Reenactment
Of course we love the Discovery Channel show MythBusters. The experiments they attempt often involve doing dangerous things while wearing the proper safety equipment. Sure, sometimes things go wrong. Nobody...
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The Draeger X-dock - Calibration and Documentation Made Easy
Draeger has recently released their next generation bump test and calibration station - the X-dock. This new system provides function and bump testing, calibration, documentation, and reporting on a modular,...
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The GX-2012 Topside Gas Monitor Seen in the Wild!
We just wrote about what a great continuous topside monitor the RKI GX-2012 is. Apparently the word is already on the street. This photo was taken in downtown San Francisco...
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Waste Collection Workers High Risk of Injury
Waste collection has always been a more injury-prone occupation than most. In both fatal and non-fatal accident categories, refuse collectors are at high risk. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics...
