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The EPA allows safer products to carry the Design for the Environment (DfE) label. This mark enables consumers to quickly identify and choose products that can help protect the environment and are safer for families. To support this effort, the EPA provides a Design for the Environment Health and Safety Management Best Practices Checklist
Vince Miller is president of Miller Safety Consultants, Ltd. in Manassas, VA, and an employee of the Washington, DC Chapter of NECA (National Electrical Contractors Association) performing environmental health and safety consulting for more than 100 electrical contractors. In this interview, Miller discusses the electrical safety training and consulting he provides and offers tips for SH&E consultants who wish to enhance their services.
On Jul. 30, 2005, at approximately 5:20 p.m., a 49-year-old male auto dealer/buyer who was dispensing race car fuel was killed when a methanol tank at an automobile racetrack exploded in the fuel building where he was working. On Aug. 1, 2005, Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) personnel notified Michigan FACE (MIFACE) that a work-related fatal incident had occurred on Jul. 30, 2005, and that the individual died on Jul. 31, 2005. MIFACE contacted the employer (racetrack owner), and a site visit was performed on Jan. 30, 2006
Based on the information presented, electric utilities should be encouraged to install cable fuses in series with service cables at their transformers. Such a change is cost-effective and would prevent approximately 16 deaths, hundreds of injuries and $45 million in residential property loss each year.
This article provides some ideas to spark your thinking, so to speak, pertaining to steps you can take to go above and beyond when it comes to safety. It focuses on the existing home market because it is in this market that the electrical contractor has the most interaction with the homeowner.
This summary presents a foresight study that has identified possible future scenarios for OSH in green jobs, given developments in green technologies, under different economic and social conditions. A full report with more details on the methodology and findings is also available from EU-OSHA and included as resource in the Body of Knowledge..
This report presents a study that has identified possible future scenarios for occupational safety and health in green jobs, given developments in green technologies, under different economic and social conditions.
A presentation given to The University of Alabama-Birmingham on the ASSE's Prevention Through Design standard(PTD/Z590). This standard focuses specifically on the avoidance, elimination, reduction and control of occupational safety and health hazards and risks in the design and redesign process.
Prevention through design (PTD) efforts focus on improving working conditions. Reasons that employers adopt PTD design solutions vary substantially. A business case can show what the PTD solution has to offer a company.
NIOSH-sponsored research has produced a model program to help organizations incorporate PTD methods into design/ redesign processes. Each element of this model program is described and supported by examples.
The Body of Knowledge project is dedicated to creating a living reference that represents the collective knowledge of the Safety, Health and Environmental profession. While the preliminary work has begun, there is still more to do. The purpose of this website is to introduce subject areas that will eventually be part of the Body of Knowledge, and to gather feedback on the future direction, and ongoing assessment of what needs to be completed.
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