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Portable electronic devices and hand-held machinery are typically powered by battery, whether it be a smaller 9-volt or a larger 24-volt pack.
Heat-related illnesses are a serious hazard on industrial work sites, especially those that are outdoors during summer months.
Workplace safety includes consideration of long work hours, swing shifts, and other rotating schedules that have an impact on worker fatigue. According to OSHA, almost 15 million American workers have full-time jobs that require evening, night, rotating or other irregular shifts that contributes to worker fatigue. It is the employer’s responsibility to provide employees who
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Heat-related illnesses are a serious hazard on industrial work sites, especially those that are outdoors during summer months.
During times of intense heat, workers can be at serious risk of illness, over-exhaustion and potentially even death.
Beginning Aug. 3, a new Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulation designed to protect construction workers from hazards associated with confined spaces will go into effect.
Though work sites have been made safer through stricter standards and advanced personal protection equipment, some cases of workplace injury are unavoidable.
With major oil regions like the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin in Texas seeing booms in production, more workers are likely to take to the roads to and from their jobs in these rich oil fields. As energy firms endeavor to increase productivity and output, they also need to keep an eye on maintaining their
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