September 2012

September Issue of DuraNews

Noise is one of the most common occupational hazards facing workers today. Both a one-time exposure to a loud sound as well as repeated exposures to loud sounds can result in damage to your ears. Hearing loss is typically gradual. Hearing is a series of events in which sound waves in the air produce electrical signals which are interpreted by the brain as sound. Hearing problems left ignored or untreated can get worse.

Can you hear me now?

Lisa Stringfellow's picture

By   Published 09/30/2012

The boiler rumbles, the press shop clanks, the furnace hisses and the conveyer belt drones. The industrial environment is filled with ear-damaging sounds. Unless you´re among the small percentage of industrial workers who actually pays attention to the health of your ears, there´s a good chance you might be exposing these valuable organs to hazardous amounts of “acoustic trauma.” Every year more than 9 million industrial workers are exposed to unhealthy noise levels.

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Preventing mercury contamination

Lisa Stringfellow's picture

By   Published 09/29/2012

OSHA recently created a fact sheet to help employers and workers understand the hazards mercury poses and, more specifically, how to work safely when crushing or recycling tubular or compact fluorescent light bulbs. Fluorescent light bulbs of this kind contain a small amount of this hazardous metal—less than 1/100th of the amount found in a mercury thermometer.

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For federal agencies it's "use it or lose it" time

Steve Stephenson's picture

By   Published 09/28/2012

If you work for a federal agency, you know the drill that happens at the end of the fiscal year. If you haven´t drawn down your appropriated funds balance to zero, you run the risk of losing that leftover funding in your next budget cycle.

The country is slowly grinding through a recession, we´re in an election year, and there have been a slew of media stories scrutinizing use of federal spending. The motivation is high for eliminating the operating funds you leave on the table for the next budget.

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Visual communications for aging baby boomers

Jack Rubinger's picture

By   Published 09/27/2012

According to a recent AARP survey, 40 percent of baby boomers (generally regarded as the generation born between 1943 and 1964) plan to work “until they drop.”

Now approaching 70 years of age, boomers’ safety communication needs are changing along with their often diminishing physical capacity.

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Simplify your life with The OSHA Answer Book

Jack Rubinger's picture

By   Published 09/06/2012

If you´ve ever wrestled with interpreting an OSHA standard, know that you´re not alone. In fact, you´re in good company. There are many thousands of industrial managers, supervisors and workers who´ve labored long and hard to find the essential facts about all kinds of OSHA standards.

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