Products being used within their end-product application can suffer systematic or random failures. Functional safety standards are designed to help influence the reduction of potential risks of ...

Confined space surveys are an important, early part of your overall confined space safety process. Most other portions of your safety process will build on the foundation of the survey. An effective ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. A Class Approach to Hazard Assessment of Organohalogen Flame Retardants. Washington, DC: The ...

YOU have read the MSDS for the special alcohol that your plant uses and it says to use eye protection. But what does that mean? One manufacturer's MSDS says to use safety glasses when using the ...

It has been said many times that information is power. This is never truer than when providing fire and rescue protection to a community. Many of today’s fire service leaders, both in uniform and in ...

Information from several sources, including data from previous hazards, is needed to predict future events. This information can assist in the development of appropriate mitigation measures.

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Earthquake experts and the nuclear community came ...

I don't know how many audits I have conducted over the last 20 years, but I know it is in the hundreds. One of the areas that I have found hardest to assess as an auditor is the hazard assessment ...

One of the biggest challenges for the risk-assessment community is how to move from the traditional chemical-by-chemical approach to analyses that evaluate multiple chemicals together. The primary ...