Tag: Hazard Communication

RHP’s Ashish Jachak, PhD to Present on Quantitative Structure Permeability Relationship Models for Dermal Penetration of Chemicals at 2024 ISES Conference

Jon Redmond /October 7, 2024

RHP Risk Management’s Ashish Jachak, PhD will present on “A Review of Quantitative Structure-Permeability Relationship Models Which Predict Dermal Absorption of Chemicals” at the 2024 International Society of Exposure Science…

U.S. EPA Issues Final Standard for Safer Choice and Design for the Environment (DfE) Programs

Jon Redmond /August 14, 2024

After consideration of public comments to the Safer Choice and Design for the Environment (DfE) Standard (88 FR 78017, November 14, 2023 (FRL-115180-01)), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued…

OSHA Proposes National Worker Heat Stress Rule to Protect Indoor and Outdoor Workers from Extreme Heat

Jon Redmond /July 8, 2024

In what the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is calling a “significant step toward a federal heat standard to protect workers”, the agency is issuing a Notice of Proposed…

What is Cal OSHA Proposed Rule for Indoor Heat?

Jon Redmond /July 2, 2024

Cal OSHA’s newly proposed indoor heat rule, “Heat Illness Prevention in Indoor Places of Employment” (Title 8, section 3396), has moved closer to approval and has potential for most California employers…

Understanding Hazard vs. Risk in the Media: Chlormequat in Cereal Grains

Jon Redmond /May 24, 2024

How often does the average person calculate a hazard vs. risk? Further, what does risk mean across our everyday decisions? A lineman may define risk as climbing poles to repair high…