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Amid today’s workplace safety landscape, combustible dust is a conundrum.

Dust in the workplace is unavoidable; yet, managing dust is much more than a routine housekeeping consideration. Anything from sugar to metal to rubber can produce dust, and in manufacturing settings, these dust particles can pose serious hazard risks. These risks span not only fire and flash fire but also blast and explosion scenarios. The combustible dust hazard is a multi-faceted situation with many variables and outcomes.

If your workplace contends with dust particles, ask yourself these three questions to better understand the hazards surrounding combustible dust incidents.

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Safety managers are constantly analyzing their site risks to create the safest possible environment for their workers. Especially when considering short-term thermal events, like arc flashes or flash fires, stacking the deck with proactive and reactive measures are critical in mitigating injuries.

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El estándar NFPA® 70E presenta un sistema de control de seguridad contra peligros eléctricos en el lugar de trabajo.

La jerarquía de control de riesgos proporciona a los empleadores y a los gerentes de seguridad una variedad de herramientas administrativas y de ingeniería para ayudar a prevenir incidentes de arco eléctrico y mitigar lesiones, en caso de que ocurra un incidente.

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Con la implementación de la resolución 5018 es indispensable que los uniformes de protección de todo el personal que opere y haga mantenimiento eléctrico tenga las características adecuadas para el cumplimiento de la normatividad que esta exige.

Todo el personal que realice labores relacionadas con manipulación eléctrica se enfrenta en Colombia a un cambio importante, a partir del 24 de noviembre de 2021 comienza a regir la resolución 5018/2019, la cual busca la prevención de los riesgos laborales de quienes hagan algún tipo de manipulación de energía eléctrica, estableciendo los lineamientos en seguridad y salud para todas las personas y empresas expuestas a un arco eléctrico.

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This fall, the Westex: A Milliken Brand team is excited to return to the annual NSC Safety Congress and Expo, hosted this year in Orlando, FL, October 11-13. The event — a key safety industry convening for more than 100 years — brings together professionals to focus on industry-leading safety technology, education and networking opportunities.

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As we all adjust to a new normal in the era of COVID-19, safety is more essential than ever. This month, the Westex team will travel to Austin, TX, to participate in ASSP Safety 2021—a major professional conference bringing together the safety industry.

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NFPA® 70E provides a system of checks and balances to account for electrical hazard safety on your job site. The hierarchy of risk controls provides safety managers and employers a host of administrative and engineering tools to help prevent arc flash incidents and mitigate injuries should an incident occur. Because the onus falls to employers, using the full range of mitigative controls available to you makes both fiscal and business sense—and one of the most effective tools available is the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).

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If you’ve been involved in the oil & gas, electrical, or industrial manufacturing industries, chances are you’re familiar with personal protective equipment—PPE for short. PPE plays a critical role in protecting workers who face any number of job site hazards, from combustible dust, flash fire and arc flash incidents to electrical shock and fall hazards and everything in between. PPE is relevant beyond these industries, too, as a key protective asset of the medical and healthcare fields down to general housekeeping.

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Setting the tone for the latest edition, the 2021 NFPA^® 70E^® Standard cover prominently features the hierarchy of risk controls, first introduced in the 2018 edition. Recommitting and reemphasizing the importance of the hierarchy of risk controls, the cover—and the standard as a whole—draws attention to this tool, which helps the electrical industry identify risk prevention and mitigation controls for those working on energized systems. Many of the updates and changes found in the 2021 edition bring the hierarchy of risk controls into sharper focus.

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Back when the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA®) first introduced the term arc-rated (AR) in its 2012 edition of NFPA 70E®, there was confusion about how exactly it applied in the world of protective garments. Even today, questions still linger about the term and how it relates to its counterpart, flame-resistant (FR)—what is the difference between them, exactly?

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