The Public Employment Risk Reduction Program's (PERRP) Bloodborne Pathogens standard requires that Miami University develop a written Exposure Control Plan to eliminate or minimize employee exposure ...

Exposures to blood and other body fluids occur across a wide variety of occupations. Preventing these exposures is one important step in ensuring a safe working environment for healthcare providers ...

An earlier hierarchy of controls had engineering controls as the top-level control. Of course, now most hierarchy of controls, including the one used by OSHA, include elimination and substitution as ...

The place you work can sometimes be hazardous to your health, even fatal. In 2023, there were 5,283 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The roots of industrial hygiene can be traced back thousands of years. In ancient Rome, scholar Pliny the Elder advised miners to wear face masks, or PPE, made from animal bladders, to protect them ...

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Priorities and Research Analysis Branch ...

This program outlines the minimum set of guidelines for the safe laboratory use of hazardous chemicals at WMU to prevent overexposures. This program does not cover the laboratory use of radioactive ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Trulieve Cannabis in Holyoke contributed to the 2022 asthma death of a worker by not recognizing and controlling ground-up cannabis as a potential respiratory hazard, the ...