Industrial hygiene controls often fail in lone worker environments where supervision and monitoring are limited.

The roots of industrial hygiene can be traced back thousands of years. In ancient Rome, scholar Pliny the Elder advised miners to wear face masks, or PPE, made from animal bladders, to protect them ...

KANSAS CITY — One way employees and third-party vendors contribute directly to food safety comes in the form hygienic practices. Hands, face and hair all possess the potential to carry foreign matter ...

Fines have increased for organizations sentenced for food safety and hygiene offenses following the introduction of new guidelines in England and Wales. An impact assessment of guidelines by the ...

An updated version of a hygiene standards guide for the catering sector has been published by a trade group in the United Kingdom. UKHospitality represents more than 730 companies operating around ...

Food hygiene and safety is of utmost importance in the food processing industry to prevent contamination and guarantee that the prepared food is safe for consumption. With increasing scrutiny and ...

Some social scientists say that it takes about two months for a behavior to become a habit. We have already been sequestered long enough for this to happen. Several of our new habits affects all ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in collaboration with the CDC, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, ...

That's where the DiskCover® System by AseptiScope, a groundbreaking solution to redefine stethoscope hygiene, comes in. The first touch-free stethoscope hygiene system of its kind, the DiskCover® ...

A hand hygiene joint project between the Department of Veterans Affairs and 3M produced a number of valuable tools that used the Six Sigma process, including a free, downloadable questionnaire for ...