The personal protective equipment market offers significant opportunities driven by increased safety awareness, high industrial accidents, and demand for smart PPE. Innovations in design and ...

Covid-19 is not a gender- or sex-neutral killer. Men are more likely than women to need intensive care for the disease or die of it. Among health care workers, however, the tables are turned: Women ...

It is important for everyone on the job site to understand the importance of PPE, how to check for damage and ensure proper fit. While personal protective equipment is the last line of defense against ...

Essential Equipment for SafetyThe forest in the morning.The workers were proceeding with preparations for chainsaw ...

There is a gap in standards for ensembles of PPE—goggles, a respirator, a gown, and gloves, for example—and for the interoperability of the equipment and its functionality. (Holm) NIOSH could adopt ...

Jennifer Schneider, a faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology, recently joined two national organizations to investigate and guide improved standards for use of personal protective ...

The cost of personal protective equipment is skyrocketing – more than 1,000% in some cases – as the coronavirus pandemic continues. The federal government’s Strategic National Stockpile has nearly ...

Five months into the pandemic, the U.S. still hasn’t solved the problem. The dearth of supplies is affecting a broad array of health facilities, renewing pleas for White House intervention. By Andrew ...

Frontline medical personnel in hospitals and nursing homes are urging the incoming Biden administration to use the Defense Production Act to increase manufacturing of personal protective equipment. By ...

Four shipments of equipment have arrived in Ukraine The first shipment of US protective equipment arrived in a Kyiv warehouse on March 23, according to Safron of UACC. It included thousands of hard ...