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Have you tried any government sites? We find a lot of our safety photos via USA.gov's image search.

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Dallas, TX, USA
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Junior Web Editor
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Occupational Health & Safety Magazine
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OH&S Magazine editor, Jerry Laws
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Provide EHS professionals with PPE-related resources, including news, white papers, features and product descriptions.
 

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A Race to Cure Unintended Acceleration


Latest Blog Entry:
A Race to Cure Unintended Acceleration

By Jerry Laws


Edmunds.com's CEO asked DOT and NHTSA to take a "fresh approach" to the problem that goes beyond Toyota's woes. His company announced Tuesday it is drafting rules for a $1 million prize to determine what really

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Posted on March 3, 2010 at 10:03am —

Carla Saavedra

My Own Fall Injury


Latest Blog Entry:
My Own Fall Injury

By Jerry Laws


I was lucky. Although the impact when I fell from my roof Feb. 14 broke my left cheekbone and this saw I was holding, there were no other injuries. Thousands of falls at U.S. homes each year prove to be fatal.


Continue

Posted on February 19, 2010 at 11:40am — 2 Comments

Carla Saavedra

Life is Like a Box of Metabonomics?


Latest Blog Entry:
Life is Like a Box of Metabonomics?

By Ronnie Rittenberry


There's good news from the biochemical community in the form of documented, empirical evidence that eating a little dark chocolate every day has stress-busting benefits and other favorable, long-term he

Continue

Posted on February 18, 2010 at 10:08am —

Carla Saavedra

Watch the Game—and the Sausage


Latest Blog Entry:
Watch the Game—and the Sausage

By Jerry Laws


Federal food safety gurus say people throwing or attending a Super Bowl party should make sure none of the recently recalled Italian sausage or salami is on the menu for the big game.


Continue

Posted on February 8, 2010 at 11:07am —

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At 9:01am on January 19, 2010, Lara Kretler said…
Carla, welcome to the community! Let me know if you have any questions about this safety community or Ansell products. Thanks for joining.
At 7:50pm on January 16, 2010, ContractorSafety.Com said…
Aside from all the cookie cutter comments and sexy girl spam, it's a pretty good community ;-)
At 7:47pm on January 16, 2010, ContractorSafety.Com said…
hello there, another warm welcome to the community. i was just checking out your e-newsletter, good stuff. OH&S mag is here, nice to see! welcome friend.
At 3:32pm on January 15, 2010, Jay D. Rohman said…
Carla! Welcome to the Workplace Safety group! I look forward to networking with you.
Jay D. Rohman www.EncouragingSafety.com
At 3:19pm on January 15, 2010, Troy Taylor said…
Carla, Welcome to the Community! Check out Best Practices when you get a chance and join the group. It would be great to have you as a member. Thanks!
At 1:32pm on January 15, 2010, Ken Oswald said…
Carla, Welcome to the community. I hope you find it is a wonderful network full of information through our blogs, forums and groups. I invite you to join our ergonomics group. It would be excellent to have you as a member. Again welcome.
 
 

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Flexible Cords and Cables shop inspection: I completed an extension cord inspection yesterday and took 12 cords out of service for various reasons. I then instruced "Joe" the maintenance man to cut…

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So I"m checking the water fountains in our shop for bacteria.  I used a dip slide that incubates in 24 hours to see if they need to be disinfected.   There are two fountains and I had three slides in…

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