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Pesticides: Health and Safety Resources, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

This link is a collective Pesticide Health and Safety resource created by the EPA. The resource contains: Government Agencies, Non-Governmental Organizations, Pesticide Databases, Publications for Health Care Practitioners, Published Papers, and Publications on the Worker Protection Standard.

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Education - Integrating PTD Into Undergraduate Curricula, Georgi Popov, Leigh Ann Blunt, James McGlothlin, Deborah Young-Corbett, John N. Zey and Pamela Heckel

To incorporate a prevention through design (PTD) mindset, today’s students must develop the skills needed to effectively apply a PTD process. This article focuses on 3 case studies and how different schools incorporated PTD into undergraduate curricula.

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Understand Their Motivations - Workers’ Communication Preferences are Changing, Thomas J. Bukowski

Changes and advancements in electronic communication have given safety professionals more ways to communicate safety messages, such as safe work processes, OSHA regulations and what personal protective equipment workers should wear for a certain task.

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Red Flags, Ashley Johnson

From fake inspectors to inadequate training providers, con artists can prey on unsuspecting employers. OSHA offers advice on how to identify and report fraud.

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Master's Thesis on Influencing Leaders Relative to Safety, Jerry Scott Lowe

Thesis in partial fulfillment of requirements for Master's degree in Occupational Safety Management. Thesis was completed in 1999. Presented here are the results of a study in which management leadership effectiveness was used as an indicator of the effects that a safety improvement program had on a manufacturing plant. The study used management effectiveness as a measure of safety results rather than the more traditional measure of injury rates.

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Lab Safety Training, Jay Brakensiek

Lab safety training for college laboratories is provided in this document.

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Nanotoolkit-Working Safely with Engineered Nanomaterials in Academic Research Settings, California Nanosafety Consortium of Higher Education

The increasing use of nanomaterials in research and development laboratories along with applications in industry are providing breakthroughs for many technologies and solutions for addressing major problems in our society. However, as with all new technologies, the potential health effects of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) remain uncertain. The aim of this project is to provide practical guidance as to how ENMs should be handled safely in the research laboratory setting in the face of such uncertainty over possible toxic effects.

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Standards Development, ASSE

As secretariat for multiple standards projects, ASSE organizes the committees that develop and maintain the standards, ensures that the revision process is timely and in accordance with ANSI procedures, and publishes the final product of the consensus process. Learn more about standards development in this article.

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OSHA Datos Rápisdos: Permisos-Requeridos Espacios Confinados en la Industria General, Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Un espacio confinado tiene aperturas de entrada y salida limitadas, es lo suficientemente grande para un empleado entrar y trabajar y no esta designado para la ocupación de trabajo continuo.

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Protección Contra Caídas en la Industria General (Quick Card: Fall Protection in General Industry), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)

Las caídas son las causas más comunes de lesiones graves y muertes relacionadas con el trabajo.

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