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What Is EHS (Environment, Health & Safety) And Why Is It Important?

What is EH&S and What Does It Mean? EHS focuses on occupational safety and harmful environmental releases. EHS or EH&S can refer to laws, regulations, programs, and other efforts done by employers to protect the environment and their employees from workplace hazards. It includes the development and implementation of health and safety policies as well …

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The Asbestos Abatement Process: What to Expect

The production of most asbestos has been illegal in the United States for over 40 years, and it continues to linger to this day, especially in buildings constructed prior to the 1980s (although there is no official cutoff date for all asbestos in buildings). Common asbestos-containing building materials (ACBMs) found in older buildings include flooring …

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How to Safely Occupy a Commercial Building with Asbestos Present

In the 1970’s several types of asbestos materials used in construction were banned. Then, in 1989 the EPA issued a final rule further banning the use of asbestos, but due to extensive industry lobbying efforts the full ban was overturned in court and only a few specific types of asbestos products were banned as well …

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Asbestosis versus Silicosis: Differences & Similarities

Asbestosis is a chronic lung disease caused by repeated exposure to toxic asbestos dust over a long period of time while silicosis is a respiratory disease caused by inhaling silica dust. Both diseases cannot be cured. Asbestosis and Silicosis, have come to the forefront in the past decades as noncancerous diseases that can seriously damage …

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OSHA’s Temporary Emergency Standards for COVID-19

On January 21, 2021 President Biden issued an Executive Order for Protection of Worker Health and Safety. Amongst other things, it requires that the Secretary of Labor who oversees the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issue temporary emergency standards so that OSHA can conduct targeted enforcement of the federal OSHA standards as well as …

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Industrial Hygiene: It’s All About Worker Health and Safety – Part III of V – Exposure Monitoring: Chemicals and Biological

What is Exposure Monitoring? Industrial Hygiene deals with planning for or anticipating, identifying, analyzing, and finding ways to control workers’ exposure to dangerous elements. In the identifying phase, Industrial Hygienists determine how much, while performing their job, a worker is exposed to a danger in terms of frequency, duration, and magnitude. In the prior two …

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Lung Cancer Awareness Month – Hazardous Materials and Lung Cancer

Everyone knows that air pollution, smoking, and second-hand smoke cause lung cancer. In fact, smoking causes 90% of lung cancer cases. Lung cancer in general causes more deaths in both genders than any other kind of cancer. And there are many people dying from lung cancer who never smoked. With facts like this, lung cancer …

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Industrial Hygiene: It’s All About Worker Health and Safety – Part II of V – Noise

What is Industrial Hygiene (IH)? As we mentioned in the last blog post in this series, Industrial Hygiene is the science and art of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and recommending controls for physical and environmental hazards that could negatively impact the well-being of people in a workplace environment. At RPF Environmental, we support our customers with …

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RPF Environmental Celebrates National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week

Children are some of the most vulnerable people in our society, and this is also true when it comes to lead poisoning. Unfortunately, children are much more vulnerable to lead poisoning than adults. That is why the focus of the National Lead Poisoning Week is focused on this segment of the population. Due to the …

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Industrial Hygiene at RPF Environmental Part I of V: Silica and Worker Health and Safety

What is Industrial Hygiene (IH)? In countries outside of the United States, the concept of industrial hygiene is referred to as “occupational hygiene” which we believe reveals more about its true meaning. The focus of industrial hygiene is worker safety and the concept has been recognized for millennia. Some of the earliest ideas were based …

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