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      Category: Safety

      Approaching hurricane season underscores importance of well-built homes

      Hurricane season is approaching, and Floridians will soon prepare themselves and their homes for potentially serious storms. Everyone knows that preparing for a hurricane includes making sure buildings are...

      Happy Anniversary, Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act

      One year ago, Americans witnessed something happen in Washington that they don’t get to see all that often—the enactment of significant legislation with strong backing from both parties. In...

      Product stewardship helps keep workers ‘Safe + Sound’

      This week, OSHA has announced events to highlight worker health and safety initiatives through its Safe + Sound Week. While safety is a cornerstone value for us every week,...

      Chemical industry achieves record-setting process safety gains

      This week, June 12-18, marks the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA) inaugural Safe & Sound Week, a nationwide effort to help workers and managers understand the valuable...

      How can we fix our nation’s infrastructure problems? Put competition to work

      Virtually every day in the U.S., we are flooded with more and more reports about growing problems with the nation’s crumbling water infrastructure. While the problem was first brought...