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Edge Eyewear Protective Glasses Prevent Eye Injury

by WorkingPerson.com on March 4, 2013 in Safety with 0 Comments

How do you protect yourself when you don’t even see it coming? With Edge Eyewear, the leading producer of rigorously tested and proven safety eyeglasses, they’ve got you covered in any situation.

With more than 10,000 eye injuries EVERY DAY in North America alone, it’s important to be very choosy about protecting one of your most valuable assets – your eyesight.

Sporting an impressive 100% effective repellent rate with a test of 6 shots from a nailgun within 5 seconds as seen here, Edge’s exclusive polycarbonate lense formula was the first to become compliant with ANSI’s (American National Standard Institute) strict requirements. Continue Reading…

ANSI Safety Workwear – How Much Visibility is Necessary for My Job?

by WorkingPerson.com on January 11, 2013 in Hi-Vis Clothing with 0 Comments

Just as every occupation requires a variety of different tools needed for the job, every profession also requires different safety workwear. Depending on the tasks and the risks involved, workers must choose apparel that will ensure their safety while on the job. The American National Standards Institute, or ANSI, is a private, not-for-profit organization which approves standards for a multitude of fields with the goal of assuring safety and health while also protecting the environment. ANSI has approved of standards on safety workwear which can serve as guidelines for workers interested in selecting the right clothing for their profession.

A worker must know the difference between ANSI Class 3 high visibility clothing, Class 2 clothing and non-ANSI apparel and when it is appropriate to wear each type of garment. So, what distinguishes one type from the other and how do you know which one is right for your job? Continue Reading…

Layering – A New Industry Standard for Insulated Clothing

by WorkingPerson.com on December 3, 2012 in Safety with 0 Comments

When choosing clothing for cold-weather layering, insulated clothing will add warmth. And thanks to a new ANSI standard, working people and employers now have a new tool to help sort through the choices in insulated clothing. The American National Standard for Classification of Insulating Apparel Used in Cold Work Environments (ANSO/ISEA 201-2012) creates a new voluntary industry standard that assigns a thermal performance category based on the garment’s insulating value after a set number of cleaning cycles.

Voluntary vs Mandatory Safety Guidelines: Does it Matter?

by WorkingPerson.com on November 13, 2012 in Safety with 0 Comments

What’s the difference between a mandatory regulation and a voluntary requirement? That’s a big question to answer and an important one to tackle. Understanding the difference can be difficult, but it also might not be necessary. Because understanding what “voluntary” means when it comes to workplace safety might not be as “voluntary” as you might think. Companies that have a correct understanding of what OSHA’s expectations are regarding voluntary requirements will be a leader when it comes to keeping workers safe and costs under control. Continue Reading…

Specialized Gloves Are Needed for Specialized Skills

by WorkingPerson.com on August 30, 2012 in Safety with 0 Comments

Employers these days are moving away from generalization, and placing an emphasis on hiring workers who have specialized skills. According to Forbes magazine, people without specialized skills are finding it harder and harder to find work.

Just like the trend toward needing specialized skills, there is a trend toward needing specialized work gloves. More than anything, it was a court case that demonstrated this need. Recently in the UK, a city sanitation worker successfully sued his employer and was awarded more than $150,000 in personal injury damage, for a cut he suffered at work while sifting through a pile of trash. The employee was wearing gloves provided by his employer when he cut himself on a sharp object hidden in the pile of trash, but the court ruled that his employer had provided him with “the wrong type of gloves.” Continue Reading…

What do Hard Hat Standards mean?

by WorkingPerson.com on July 30, 2012 in Safety with 0 Comments

The main standards are for both impact protection and electrical insulation.

Actually, there are two main types of ANSI impact standards for Hard Hats–creatively named Type I and Type II.

In a nutshell, Type I impact protection covers mostly trouble coming from above your head, while Type II adds front, rear and side protection. (More on this later.) Continue Reading…

High Visibility Clothing

by WorkingPerson.com on July 30, 2012 in Hi-Vis Clothing with 1 Comment

Our friends at ANSI have approved three main classes of clothing regarding visibility: namely, Classes 1, 2, and 3 (surprised?). Actually, there is a class E that’s only for work pants and shorts. When these are worn with Class 2 or 3 garments, they add up to Class 3 coverage.

The higher the class number, the higher the visibility. This is based on the amount of background material (often bright orange, red or green–you want to stand out from your surroundings), the width of the reflective tape, and the photometric performance of the tape (how reflective it is, right?). Except for Class E, all High Visibility clothing must contain 360 degrees of reflective taping around the torso.

Workplace Eye Safety Facts

by WorkingPerson.com on July 25, 2012 in Safety with 0 Comments

Every day, as many as 2,000 workers suffer eye injuries on the job.
There were an estimated 97,000 workplace-related eye injuries treated in US hospital emergency rooms in 2002.
As of 2003, the U.S. Department of Labor estimates that eye injuries total more than $300 million a year in lost production time, medical expenses and worker compensation.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics states that workers aged 25-44 accounted for 62 percent of eye injuries and 81 percent of those were men.
About 52 percent of all eye injury cases occurred in manufacturing or trade, 20 percent in the service industry and 15 percent occurred in construction. (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics)
More than one in four cases of eye injuries occur at work with as many as 50 percent of those injured wearing no eye protection at all. (Source: USACHPPM – U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Vision Conservation and Readiness Program)
90 percent of all job-related eye injuries can be prevented by wearing the proper protective eyewear.
Only eye protection that has been certified by the American National Standards Institute should be used and must have “ANSI Z87″ clearly stamped on the frame or lens.

Make sure your safety eyewear has passed appropriated safety tests and regulations. Edge Safety Glasses and Pyramex Safety Eyewear have both been rigorously tested and both come out on top.

What is Conductive Footwear?

by WorkingPerson.com on July 24, 2012 in Safety Footwear with 2 Comments

A typical human body may carry around 12,000 to 35,000 volts of electrostatic charges. Conductive footwear provides a continuous grounding path between the human body and an ESD flooring. Conductive footwear is designed to keep you protected when potential electrical hazards are present.

Conductive footwear is designed to discharge static electricity from the body through your shoes into grounded floors. Floors must be grounded so that a charge can be dissipated. Conductive footwear is designed and manufactured to minimize static electricity and to reduce the possibility or ignition of volatile chemicals, explosives or explosive dusts. Continue Reading…

What is the American National Standards Institute?

by WorkingPerson.com on July 24, 2012 in Safety Footwear with 0 Comments

Founded in 1918, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), is a private, not-for-profit, membership organization that acts as a standards coordinating and approval body, not necessarily a standards developer. Its membership consists of individuals and organizations representing a wide range of interests including trade associations, labor unions, professional societies, standards developing organizations, private industry, consumers, academia and government agencies. Presently, there are over 13,000 ANSI-approved American National Standards.

The main functions of ANSI include establishing a variety of accreditation programs, such as third-party product certification. ANSI supports the development and approval of national voluntary standards. The American National Standards Institute also acts as the U.S. representative to the international standards organizations including the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ANSI is also responsible for creating liaises with government department and agencies on standards’ issues. All the while ANSI is setting standards for protective footwear. Continue Reading…

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