Is your fall protection equipment a silent hazard?

Fall protection training: get what you need.

Many fall protection training programs offered today are highly focused on regulatory requirements or exclusively on equipment. But, the most effective training covers these topics and much more. This paper will compare OSHA regulations and ANSI standards, including the new ANSI Z359.2 standard as it pertains to fall protection training. Using lessons learned from an aircraft engine manufacturi...

Workers Not Always Using Their Fall Protection Equipment?

A technique for marking oncological breast tissue specimens.

With new breast conserving oncological surgical techniques, accurate identification of specimen margins is important to allow for the re-excision of margins. The accurate identification of margins is crucial is the success of the patients treatment if further margins are required. NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) guidelines recommend the excised specimen is labelled accurately to correct...

Assessment of desertification hazard, risk and development of management plans

About 80 percent of Iran is arid and semi-arid and about 35 percent of this area is susceptible to desertification hazard. Therefore desertification assessment and identification of the most important criteria for the assessment of risk and a basis for development of management plans is essential. This research was conducted in the semi-arid region of Agh-Band in the Golestan province, Iran wit...

Soil Liquefaction Hazard Zonation Map for Kordkuy County, Golsetan Province Using Model SWM

Liquefaction is one of the most determinant factors in the collapse of transportation infrastructures. This is especially true for roads and railroads located on saturated, fine-sand substrates under seismic conditions. The damage and human casualties resulting from liquefaction highlight the importance of understanding and mapping this phenomenon. Soil liquefaction occurs as a natural hazard i...