Julie McFater
Director of Marketing
The Hierarchy of Controls: the extremely useful but often overlooked guide to safety
In the world of safety, we’re lucky to have a lot of fantastic PPE available. However, depending on personal protective equipment (alone) isn’t...
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Jonathan McCallum
Market Segment Manager: Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene & Environmental Monitoring
How safe is the indoor air that you breathe?
Each year, it appears that more and more time is spent indoors – in fact, according to the EPA, we spend about 90...
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Jonathan McCallum
Market Segment Manager: Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene & Environmental Monitoring
The worst jobs for your lungs
As you likely know from your own household chores, dust is all around us. In fact, the average home in the United States...
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Jonathan McCallum
Market Segment Manager: Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene & Environmental Monitoring
Workplace Chemicals: How do you measure your exposures?
Electronic gas monitors are a great tool for measuring gas hazards in your work environment – but they have definite limitations. The variety...
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Eric Huard
Market Segment Manager, Personal Safety
The Top 3 Ways the Internet of Things Can Keep You on Schedule, on Budget and Compliant
Have you ever written down a note to yourself that’s super important on a Post-it, only to lose that Post-it and forget everything?...
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Jonathan McCallum
Market Segment Manager: Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene & Environmental Monitoring
How to pass a respirator fit test
The title of this post might seem a bit misleading, but we get asked “how do I pass a respirator fit test?” a...
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Paul Kroes, B.Sc.
Instrumentation Specialist
Units of Measure: How to convert LEL to PPM, PPB or %BV
Unless you have a technical background, the concept of measurement scales can be complicated. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had...
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Paul Kroes, B.Sc.
Instrumentation Specialist
Peracetic Acid: The hazardous chemical used in the food industry that no one wants to talk about
Chemists always seem to come with up new chemicals and new uses. One that’s quickly gaining popularity is peracetic acid, or PAA. PAA...
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