Personal protective equipment (PPE) is used to supplement engineering controls (such as laboratory ventilation and laser interlocks) and good work practices and is an important component of laboratory ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- As novel coronavirus testing expands and more positive cases are being identified every day, doctors, nurses and other health care workers are scrambling to find enough personal ...

In a recent Safety Office article in TRACKS, we explained the role of personal protective equipment, or PPE, in the hierarchy of controls. Although PPE is the last resort in controlling a hazard, it ...

Each year, the month of June marks a time to celebrate National Safety Month, an annual observance championed by the National Safety Council to help keep workers safe and eliminate preventable ...

Despite the provision of personal protective equipment to hospital staff and clinicians, a new study published in JAMA revealed it isn't always used properly and the danger of spreading pathogens is ...

Jennifer Schneider, a faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology, recently joined two national organizations to investigate and guide improved standards for use of personal protective ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Hospital officials in Northwest Arkansas say they have enough personal protective equipment, but they are bracing to run low as more people are diagnosed with covid-19 and the country ...

When I read in March that the first all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station was postponed, the reason behind the delay was all too familiar: not enough appropriately sized ...

The purpose of this program is to ensure that, where applicable, the appropriate and necessary personal protective equipment (PPE) is selected and provided to employees. Western Michigan University’s ...

AT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN. GOOD MORNING, HANNAH. HANNAH: GOOD MORNING. AS OF THIS MORNING, CHILDREN’S IS ACCEPTING PERSONAL PROTECTI EQUIPMENT, OR PPE’S HERE AT THE CORPORATE CENTER IN ...