Workplace and product safety — recalls, occupational hazards, and the failures behind preventable harm.
A federal RICO claim against 23 defendants, including 3M, DuPont, and the turnout gear makers. Connecticut firefighters’ separate suit survives. “Provide PPE” and “control exposure” have never been the same sentence, and this is the case that proves it.
Candy bottles, finger lights, fridge magnets, loungewear, fire spray, bike helmets, and a gas range. Here’s what each one actually does and what to do about it.
CSB’s update on the April hydrogen sulfide release in Institute, West Virginia: no written procedures, four respirators with the wrong cartridges, no gas monitors, and two of the dead were rescuers. This is a decommissioning failure, and decommissioning is where hazard assessment goes to die.
About 1,835 Lontcs busy boards, sold on Amazon for around $31. Stop using it, get a refund. And notice what CPSC didn’t publish.
New York City released its internal post-9/11 air quality records. They show officials documenting asbestos in the dust while telling residents the air was safe. For anyone who does exposure work, this is the field’s central cautionary tale, finally in primary sources.
Three years after the STURDY Act, dressers are still failing it. Here’s this week’s list, what each hazard actually is, and the ten-minute fixes.
A draft TSCA risk evaluation puts cleanup crews inside the exposure math. Comments are open until November 3.
E. coli O145:H28, frozen blueberries, and now Great Value Triple Berry Blend in 16 states. The first product named is almost never the last one.
Mistolin and Lestoil multi-purpose cleaners may contain Pseudomonas aeruginosa. If someone in your house is immunocompromised or on a nebulizer, read this one.
NIOSH bought counterfeit P100 filters and cartridges and tested them. Nearly all of them failed. Here’s the step that’s missing from most respiratory protection programs, and how to add it in ten minutes.
A new global estimate says roughly 46% of farmworkers are acutely poisoned every year. The study’s own authors say it’s badly undercounted. That failure mode should sound familiar to anyone who runs a safety program.