MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) – Teresa Aikens is a nurse manager for infection control at USA Health University Hospital and she stresses that not only is it important to use PPE, but it is also just as crucial ...

The use of PPE is often necessary to protect employees from injury or illness caused by exposure to chemicals and other workplace hazards such as: biologicals, radiation, physical, electrical, ...

Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) on the jobsite is undoubtedly vital to keeping construction workers safe. Not only is it important to keep employees healthy, companies must stay in ...

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is there to keep us safe in hazardous environments. This doesn’t mean that it’s only for use around chemicals—the pandemic has shown us the benefits of even simple ...

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 ...

Are dental healthcare personnel (DHCP) properly using personal protective equipment (PPE)? Researchers used a fluorescent marker to illustrate pathogen transmission and assessed PPE donning and ...

As COVID-19 spread across the country, businesses that couldn’t work from home scrambled to develop plans to keep employees safe from the pandemic and offices germ-free. Personal protective equipment ...

Developing technology is a key component of the industrial world — to automate, streamline, simplify and advance. Forward-thinking companies look for innovative ways to incorporate new options of ...

BOCA RATON, Fla. — A Florida Atlantic University doctor was part of a study on personal protective equipment that is attracting national attention. Despite the use of PPE, some nurses and doctors have ...