Tag: hazards

Canadian Wildfire Smoke in Chicagoland: A Visual Analysis of Indoor and Outdoor Particle Levels

Jon Redmond /July 16, 2026

As wildfire smoke from Canada drifted across northern Illinois today, air quality conditions deteriorated rapidly throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. Public monitoring stations reported Air Quality Index (AQI) levels reaching…

OSHA Updates National Emphasis Program on Heat Hazards: What Employers Need to Know

Jon Redmond /May 6, 2026

  As temperatures rise across many regions of the United States, occupational heat exposure continues to present serious risks to worker health and safety. On April 10, 2026, the Occupational Safety…

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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…

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…

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RHP’s Ashish Jachak and Frank Pagone Attend 2024 Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual Meeting

Jon Redmond /April 4, 2024

At the Society of Toxicology (SOT) 63rd Annual Meeting we heard about the latest and greatest of science and technology in the field of chemical, regulatory, and academia toxicology while…