What Is the Most Poisonous Chemical Compound?
What Is the Most Poisonous Chemical Compound? Question: What Is the Most Poisonous Chemical Compound?Answer: When you get right down to it, everything is poisonous. Water will kill you if you drink...
View Article20 Fast Facts About Cigarette Smoking More than 434,000 Americans die each...
A decision-making guide for teensMost people who smoke first light up a cigarette when they're teenagers. In fact, 80% of smokers began the habit before they turned 18. Here are a few quick facts...
View ArticleQuestion: Do You Add Sulfuric Acid to Water or Water to Sulfuric Acid?
Question: Do You Add Sulfuric Acid to Water or Water to Sulfuric Acid?When you mix concentrated sulfuric acid and water, you pour the acid into a larger volume of water. Mixing the chemicals the other...
View ArticleToxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs)
Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) requires employers to comply with hazard-specific safety and health standards. In addition, pursuant to Section...
View ArticleManager going to prison for hiding injuries to get safety bonus
Manager going to prison for hiding injuries to get safety bonus April 19, 2013 by Fred HosierPosted in: construction safety, criminal charges, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News &...
View ArticleOwner faces prison, $250K fine in death of employee April 12, 2013 by Fred...
Owner faces prison, $250K fine in death of employeeApril 12, 2013 by Fred Hosier Here’s an update of a story we’ve been following. The owner and a manager of a printing company have pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleBusiness owner found guilty in employee fatality February 12, 2010 by Fred...
the owner of a tree removal company faces three to seven years in a state prison for creating workplace conditions that led to a worker fatality. A jury found Maurice Buzzell guilty of negligent...
View ArticleTop 10 loss control tips for 2013
What are the most important steps companies can take to mitigate risk and control loss through workplace safety? A 20-year occupational safety veteran reveals his Top 10 list. Dennis Truitt, Vice...
View ArticleDesigned Specifically for Chemical Regulatory Management and Risk Reduction
Designed Specifically for Chemical Regulatory Management and Risk ReductionThere is a worldwide movement to analyze and understand the dangers chemicals represent to people, the environment and our...
View Article5 million U.S. workplaces face new hazcom training deadline in 2013
While the transition to OSHA’s new Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) happens in 2015, businesses face a deadline this year that involves employee training. By Dec. 1, 2013, more than five million...
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The past & present of Indian environmentalism
The past & present of Indian environmentalismPolluted skies, dead rivers, disappearing forests and displacement of peasants and tribals are what we see around us 40 years after the Chipko movement...
View ArticleWorkplace Conditions That Can Lead to Forklift Accidents
Surface or ground conditions are an important part of safe powered industrial truck operation. In today's Advisor we focus on hazardous conditions in your workplace that can lead to forklift...
View ArticleTough Love: What Your Employees Won’t Say About HR, But I Will
Tough Love: What Your Employees Won’t Say About HR, But I WillTopic: HR ManagementSpecial from SHRM’s Legal and Legislative ConferenceTough Love: What Your Employees Won’t Say About HR, But I...
View ArticleGlobalization and the Developing Countries: The Inequality Risk
Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceGlobalization and the Developing Countries: The Inequality RiskRemarks at Overseas Development Council Conference, Making Globalization Work,International...
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On Earth Day, forget not World Malaria Day
On Earth Day, forget not World Malaria DayOn Earth Day, forget not World Malaria Dayby james on April 22, 2013IntroductionSmoke began to spread through the flashing room. Few had noticed the steady...
View ArticleWorld Malaria Day, 25 April 2013
World Malaria Day, 25 April 2013Invest in the future. Defeat malaria.Over the last decade, the world has made major progress in the fight against malaria. Since 2000, malaria mortality rates have...
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Key facts oif maleria
Key factsMalaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes. In 2010, malaria caused an estimated 660 000 deaths (with an...
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The natural ecology of malaria
The natural ecology of malaria involves malaria parasites infecting successively two types of hosts: humans and female Anopheles mosquitoes. In humans, the parasites grow and multiply first in the...
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Anopheles Mosquitoes
Anopheles MosquitoesMalaria is transmitted among humans by female mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Female mosquitoes take blood meals to carry out egg production, and such blood meals are the link...
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Mosquito Facts: All About Mosquitoes
Mosquito Facts: All About MosquitoesWhen most people think of mosquitoes, they think of that annoying mosquito sound and that even more annoying mosquito bite. Believe it or not, there is much more to...
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