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Cobalt: More Than Just A Pretty Color

For centuries, cobalt has been used to produce brilliant blue colors in glass, porcelain, pottery, tiles and enamels. This brittle, reflective gray compound found within the earth’s crust also plays a vital role in the health of humans and animals

Indoor Air Quality Considerations for Injection-Molding Plastics Workers

In 1872, John W. and Isaiah Hyatt patented the first injection-molding machine which used a plunger to inject plastic into a mold via a heated cylinder.

For Worker Health Foundries Need Clean Indoor Air Quality

Metal casting has been an essential necessity since iron was first discovered around 2000 BC. As individual and community need for metal parts grew, commercial manufacturing emerged. America’s first iron foundry was established near Lynn, Massachusetts in 1642

Indoor Air Quality and the Aerospace / Cadmium Relationship

Workers can inhale cadmium dust, fumes, or mists but cadmium can also settle on skin and contaminate food and clothing. Elimination, avoidance, or containment of this noxious substance is imperative as contact with cadmium can damage the body’s cardiovascular, renal, gastrointestinal, neurological, reproductive, and respiratory systems. Cadmium is a known carcinogen.

Workplace Indoor Air Quality and OSHA State Plans

Remedying poor workplace indoor air quality is more of a modern notion, one that did not become a driving force within the medical, environmental, and clean air policy communities until many years after pollution as a healthcare concern became a nationwide talking point.

The Risk of Combustible Dust Explosions During Wood Flooring Manufacturing

The potential for dust particulates to ignite and create a flash fire or explosion is a constant hazard in just about every industry. The reason is that just about everything, including wood, has the potential to be combustible when in dust form. Because they are solids, the dusts and powders that settle onto equipment, in passageways, and in nooks and crannies of a manufacturing plant, accumulate.

Indoor Air Quality 2018 Year In Review

Breathing clean, pure air at work should be a right, not a privilege. And yet, indoor air quality (IAQ) issues continue to challenge business owners year after year. 2016 has been no different. Regardless of industry, four key categories of indoor air pollution prove the most problematic: molds, fumes, dust, and VOCs.

Chemical Emissions from Plastic Bottle Labeling and the Indoor Air Quality Occupational Risk to Bottle Workers

It may be difficult for Americans born in the last few decades to imagine a time when drinking beverages out of a plastic bottle, purchased from stores and vending machines, wasn’t commonplace. But before plastic, glass was the main material used in bottling goods. But that’s not all that has changed in the bottling industry. Read More

Air Filtration No Longer Considered Luxury Item In Apartment Living

With air quality remaining a pressing issue across the country, newer buildings are now incorporating robust HVAC systems and strong air filters to help improve the living situations of tenants.