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Carhartt Introduces Rugged Professional Series
This product collection comes in nine styles and features Rugged Flex and Stain Breaker technologies, along with wrinkle resistance.
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Agency: No Alert System at Texas Facility Damaged by Fire
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OSHA Proposes $1.59M Fine after Deadly Silicone Plant Blast in Illinois
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NJ Fencing Company Fined $370K for Repeat OSHA Violations
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Opioid Manufacturer in Kickback Scheme Files for Bankruptcy
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Building Materials Helped Spread Grenfell Fire, U.S. Suit Says
Faulty building materials helped spread a devastating fire at London's Grenfell Tower in 2017, turning the residential complex into a 'flaming coffin' for the 72 people who died, according to a product liability suit filed Tuesday in the United States.
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Ram Pickups Recalled Because Airbags May Not Work in Crash
Fiat Chrysler is recalling nearly 343,000 Ram pickup trucks worldwide because the airbags may not inflate in a crash.
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AP: Purdue Foreign Arm Caught Up in Opioid Probe in Europe
The police huddled for hours each day, headphones on, eavesdropping on the doctor. They'd tapped his cellphone, bugged his office, planted a camera in a trattoria.
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Oklahoma Attorney Blames Corporate Greed for Opioid Crisis
Corporate greed is responsible for an opioid crisis that has cost Oklahoma thousands of lives and will take billions of dollars to repair, the state's attorney general told a judge Tuesday at the start of the nation's first state trial against the companies accused of fueling the problem.
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Embracing the Aging Workforce With 21st Century Loading Docks
From automatic vehicle restraints to push-button hydraulic levelers with smooth transition features, technology is easing manual labor at the loading dock.
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Weekly Marketplace: Safety Equipment
Take a look at the new and innovative products hitting the manufacturing industry this past week.
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At Least 5 Hurt in Fire, Explosion at Oklahoma Paper Mill
Officials say a fire and subsequent explosion at a Georgia-Pacific paper mill in eastern Oklahoma injured at least five people.
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Report: Air Quality Harmed as Texas Oil Production Booms
The production of oil and natural gas in West Texas is booming but it's coming at a cost to residents who are regularly exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to a report issued by an environmental group.
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Some of Detroit's New Streetlights Dimming, Burning Out
Officials say some of Detroit's new LED streetlights are prematurely dimming and burning out in parts of the city and thousands more could fail.
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GM Recalls Trucks Due to Engine Block Heater Cord Fires
General Motors is recalling over 368,000 pickups and other trucks worldwide after 19 reports of fires caused by engine block heater cords.
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Rear Seats of Cars Need Better Safety Equipment, Study Says
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says in a new report that safer restraint systems are needed for the back seats of cars.
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Optimizing 5S With Durable Surface Safe Labels
The 5S process requires continuous improvement, so using signage or identification labels that easily adapt to change can streamline the process.
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BMW Adds Nearly 185,000 Vehicles to Recall Over Fire Risk
The expansion brings the total number of vehicles recalled for the problem to about 925,000.
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Woman Hurt in Explosion at Kansas Plant That Makes Batteries
Saline County Sheriff's Office Capt. Jim Hughes says the 48-year-old woman was cleaning and servicing a machine when the explosion happened just before 6 a.m. Friday at Exide Technologies.
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Panel: Pilots Won't Need Simulator Training for Boeing Jet
A group of technical experts appointed by federal aviation regulators says pilots won't need new training on flight simulators to learn how to operate the Boeing plane that was grounded after two deadly crashes involving a new anti-stall system.
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Lyft Pulls Electric Bikes Off the Road After Brake Problems
Paul Buijs had logged more than 750 Citi Bike rides before he took out an electric bike for the first time.
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Southwest Doesn't Plan to Use Boeing Max Jets Until August
Southwest Airlines customers relaxing on Thursday evening got an email that may mean their summer vacation could be more stressful and expensive than they planned.
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Weekly Marketplace: Safety Equipment and Technology
Take a look at the new and innovative products hitting the manufacturing industry this past week.
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Federal Agency to Investigate Texas Chemical Fire
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board announced Wednesday that it will investigate a fire at a Houston area chemical plant as the facility's operator identified the worker killed in the blaze.
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Federal Agency to Investigate Texas Chemical Fire
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board says it will investigate a fire at a Houston area chemical plant that killed one worker and injured two others.
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Death in Arizona is 24th Due to Faulty Takata Air Inflators
Another driver has died after being injured by an exploding Takata air bag inflator, raising the worldwide death toll to 24.
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Hawaii Weighs Nation's First Statewide Ban on E-Cig Flavors
The first state to limit tobacco and electronic cigarette sales to people 21 and older is contemplating a new nicotine crackdown: outlawing flavored electronic cigarette liquids and flavored tobacco to combat a spike in teenage vaping.
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Ethiopia Crash Black Boxes Arrive in France for Analysis
Flight recorders from a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight arrived in France for analysis Thursday as frustrated relatives of the 157 people killed stormed out of a meeting with airline officials in Addis Ababa.
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FDA Allows Treatment of Depression with Club Drug's Cousin
A mind-altering medication related to the club drug Special K won U.S. approval Tuesday for patients with hard-to-treat depression, the first in a series of long-overlooked substances being reconsidered for severe forms of mental illness.
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How to move up the safety curve from basic clamps and cables on a budget
Protecting workers and company assets from ignitions caused by static electricity can’t be left to chance. In facilities where flammable and combustible products are processed, there’s a very high probability that static electricity is generated by the movement of gases, liquids and solids. The risks of a fire or explosion caused by a discharge of static electricity in an EX/HAZLOC area are just too significant to ignore. To emphasise its significance static electricity is identified in North American
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You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to safeguard against the hazards of static electricity.
For any person responsible for the safety of employees, colleagues, plant equipment and plant property, one of the most potentially confusing aspects of providing a safe operating environment is trying to determine if that site’s manufacturing or handling processes have the potential to discharge static sparks into flammable or combustible atmospheres.. Electrostatics is a detailed subject area that, for most of us, appears to be a black art accessible only to academics and experienced process safety
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Restraint Policy
Oftentimes loading dock safety is viewed through an all or nothing lens, but Rite-Hite is turning that concept on its head. The “thought-leader” in all of us knows there is room for improvement at EVERY DOCK…the key is making advancements accessible on EVERY BUDGET. Whether you use a simple wheel chock, or an automatic vehicle restraint it’s a safety imperative that your vehicle restraint policy be paired with a light communication system. New options from Rite-Hite allow you to help make EVERY DOCK
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Open Dock Policy
Oftentimes safety is viewed through an all or nothing lens, but the “thought-leader” in all of us knows there is room for improvement at EVERY-DOCK… The key is making safety improvements to your current Open or Closed Dock Policy accessible on EVERY-BUDGET. To get there, urgent versus long-term goals must be considered when identifying and prioritizing safety improvements…both immediate and future. Incremental, strategic, budget-friendly improvements can be made over time to optimize safety and help
