A basic tenant of any good industrial hygiene program is the application of the hierarchy of controls. This mantra dictates that identified hazards should be addressed in the following order
OSHA’s hazardous waste operations and emergency response regulation, 29 CFR 1910.120, stipulates requirements for emergency response operations involving releases of hazardous substances. Employees participating in emergency response are required to be HAZWOPER trained based on the duties and function they would serve in an emergency response situation.
Industrial hygiene (IH) is a science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, prevention and control of workplace hazards. These basic principles are applied to all safety programs at some level, but IH delves deeper into hazard analysis through data collection by various sampling techniques.
Thanksgiving is here and it's time to reflect on all of the great things that happened throughout the year. We are thankful for all of the wonderful people that we get to work with day-in and day-out!
Are you prepared for complying with OSHA’s revised injury and illness reporting requirements? OSHA issued a final rule in 2019 to amend its injury and illness record keeping regulation (29 CFR 1904).
The Cambridge Public Health Department has unveiled their new permitting platform for new Cambridge Biosafety permits and renewals. The transition to the online system requires that each currently permitted company enter all the required information in a new record for that company
October came and went. Now that we are safe from Halloween spooks and all the candy is either passed out or eaten (yum!) we can look back at some of our Safety Tips from last month!
