Health
134 Million Americans – More Than 41% – Lived in Counties with Unhealthy Levels of Either Ozone or Particulate Pollution
The American Lung Association’s 19th annual “state of the air” report found that 134 million Americans – more than 41% – lived i...
Can Adoption of Pollution Prevention Techniques Reduce Pollution Substitution?
The open source journal PLOSOne had a recent article of potential interest to the P2 community. The researchers used TRI data to determine the extent ...
A Matter of Trust: how to Evolve and Manage Worker Health and Safety
Top safety leaders create a safety culture that shifts from a minimum requirement of compliance to a workforce where employees are committed to workin...
“A Hot and Smoky Scene” – Then It Got Worse
On May 3, 2019, at a chemical manufacturing facility in Waukegan, Illinois, the operator of a tank in which a silicon hydride emulsion was being made ...
Climate Change, Inversions, and the Rise of “Super Pollution” Air Events
Why the air was unsafe to breathe and reeked of “hospital waste” in a Pennsylvania community this Christmas Residents of the Mon Valley, a...
EPA to Update NOx Emissions Standard for Trucks
Heavy-duty truck manufacturers back federal effort to set a nationwide emissions-control program for nitrogen oxide and other pollutants. The U.S. Env...
For Healthy New Year’s Habits, Learn from the World’s Longest-Lived Peoples
This story was originally published in 2016. As a doctor, I’m often asked for medical advice by friends, family members, even new acquaintances:...
‘Scary Moms’ are Part of the Citizen War Against Pollution in Pakistan
On a December day in Lahore, Pakistan’s second-biggest city, the smog concealed tall buildings. Men on motorbikes seemed to push through it as t...
2019 Safety News Quiz
How closely do you pay attention to significant developments involving workplace safety? Take Skillsoft’s quiz on various “safety in the news” s...
Warehouse Workers Can Create a Personalized Injury Reduction Program
“We are flipping the process around,” explains Matthew Hart, CEO of Soter Analytics. “We are looking at the safety issues for one person, not a ...
OSHA Issues Warning About Headphones
If awareness is a powerful ally of workplace safety, distractions are its enemy— including the use of headphones to listen to music on dangerous job...
Chemical Safety Board Provides Insight Following AB Specialty Silicones Explosion
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a factual update following the May 3, 2019 explosion at a facility in Waukegan Ill. Four workers wer...