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The Place of Absorbents in Schools
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
While industrial absorbents are typically associated in the popular mind with heavy industry and automotive maintenance users, they are, in fact, highly useful in many other environments, one of the most important of which is ...
Work Gloves - Does Brand Name Make a Difference?
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
A number of years ago, grocery stores introduced products that used the private label branding strategy. For a range of products including cereal, medicine, canned soups, and other items, they began using their own store ...
Absorbents - Using Color-Based System Can Communicate Important Information
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
On occasion the question is asked: why are absorbents manufactured in different colors? A simple color-code system for using absorbents can help communicate important information related to the useful life of an absorbent sock, pillow, ...
Using Absorbents - Where to Look for Drips, Leaks and Spills
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
There are probably no facilities without some type of drips, leaks, or spills. Anywhere liquids are manufactured, refined, transported, stored, or used, the possibility exists that a piece of machinery or equipment has fluid leaking ...
Disposable Coveralls - Common Uses and Applications
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
The advent of disposable coveralls was led by the development of technologies and materials that produced durable, lightweight and filtering or impermeable non-woven fabrics that were comfortable enough to wear and inexpensive enough to discard. ...
Common Types of Work Gloves
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
According to OSHA, about 70 percent of workers who suffer hand injuries in manufacturing operations are not wearing gloves. Why don't workers wear gloves and other personal protective equipment? Some major reasons are discomfort and ...
Safety Vests - What Standards Govern High-Visibility Clothing?
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is one of the key regulatory organizations that govern the standards for safety vests, reflective safety jackets, and other high-visibility clothing. In the U.S. the Standard for High-Visibility Safety ...
Inspecting and Caring for Hard Hats
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
The hard hat is one of the most important personal protection equipment items that can be worn in industrial workplace settings. Many cases and stories from the past have documented the fact that workers have ...
Emergency Eyewash Stations - Selecting and Maintaining Them
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
Employees who work in manufacturing facilities or other industrial areas may work in close contact with chemicals or other materials that can cause irritation or serious harm if these substances come in contact with the ...
Hydrophilic Vs Hydrophobic Absorbents: Don’t be Confused by Terminology
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
A pair of terms that appear repeatedly in information about absorbent products are "hydrophilic" and "hydrophobic." Although these words may look bookish at first, they’re really easy to tell apart and understand if you look ...
Basic Types of Respirators
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
OSHA requires respirators to be worn by a millions of workers in workplaces throughout the United States. Respirators protect workers against insufficient-oxygen environments or against harmful dusts, fogs, smokes, mists, gases, vapors and sprays - ...
Making Sense of the Most Common Categories of Absorbents
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
Ever wonder what the difference is between absorbent pads, absorbent mats, absorbent pillows, absorbent rolls, absorbent socks, and all the other varieties of absorbents that exist? Sometimes a seemingly endless list of the types of ...
Small or Large Spills - Both Deserve Proper Attention
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
Spills of hazardous chemicals, oil, or other similar liquids happen on a semi-frequent basis. Much of the time when these incidents occur, the amount of the spill is very small and companies have routine supplies ...
Regulations Clarify Who Should Pay for Safety Equipment
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
As safety regulations and standards have improved over the years, employers have been more effective at supplying the proper safety equipment needed by employees to protect themselves. Similarly, employees have developed better habits with regards ...
A Note on Industrial Absorbents
By Nch Safety · 13 years ago
Workplace safety is an area of concern in all manufacturing plants in the country as any accident in the manufacturing plant can prove to be very disruptive for the organization in question. Not only are ...