Incident and injury prevention is the proper focus for SH&E professionals, but emergency preparedness for events ranging from individual incidents to large-scale disasters remains an important skill ...

Accidents can happen at any time in the workplace. To create a comprehensive first aid kit, you need to take the specifics of your location and business into account. For example, a snakebite ...

OSHA mandates that businesses have actionable plans for both workplace hazards and protection from occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens. HOSPECO, a leading manufacturer of products for ...

While ISEA and ANSI are not government entities, their standards have been cited by both the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration as well as state occupational safety and health plans ...

First aid supplies are found in nearly any setting—from residential, industrial, and recreational sites to vehicle fleets. Yet as common as they are, first aid kits in the workplace have not ...

In Randy Beaver's 30 years as a safety professional, he has encountered many workplaces without first aid programs. That always has surprised Beaver, president of Barron and Associates Inc., a safety ...

First aid kits are not required on campus, however many departments and offices wishes to have them available in case of small incidents. Cal-OSHA and Fed OSHA does not have a minimum requirement, but ...

As emergency medical care exists in close proximity to the institution, the University of Nevada, Reno campuses (including the contiguous campus grounds, Redfield Campus, Valley Road facilities, Main ...

There are new efforts to get the overdose prevention drug naloxone included in more first aid kits in workplaces. A lawmaker in California recently proposed a first-in-the-nation law to require ...

Recent changes to ANSI/ISEA Z308.1 are a holistic shift in our nation's approach to occupational injury preparedness. First aid supplies are found in nearly any setting—from residential, industrial, ...