The World Health Organization is warning of a potential shortage of personal protective equipment as coronavirus spreads. Manufacturers such as Medicom are ramping up production globally in response.

The acquisition of flame-resistant and high-visibility lines from Lakeland Industries strengthens NSA’s position in the safety market.

As nonessential businesses begin to reopen, ensuring employee health and safety is critical to stopping the spread of COVID-19. Personal protective equipment (PPE) such as masks, gloves, and more are ...

The U.S. Dept. of Labor announced Dec. 11 that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has finalized a revision to the personal protective equipment standard for construction. The final rule ...

In a recent Safety Office article in TRACKS, we explained the role of personal protective equipment, or PPE, in the hierarchy of controls. Although PPE is the last resort in controlling a hazard, it ...

Nurses are on the frontline in the fight against the coronavirus and they’re not adequately prepared. It’s not due to a lack of nursing education, but rather a lack of institutional and governmental ...

More than one-third of healthcare workers were contaminated with multi-drug resistant organisms, or MDRO, after caring for patients colonized or infected with the bacteria, according to a study in ...

As the number of coronavirus cases in the United States exponentially increased this week, health care workers sounded the alarm about shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE). Around the ...

As the U.S. health care system struggles with a dearth of beds and hospital space for the rising number of coronavirus-infected people, another type of shortage looms – basic protective equipment for ...

This letter was published on June 26, 2020, at NEJM.org. No potential conflict of interest relevant to this letter was reported. van Doremalen N, Bushmaker T, Morris DH, et al. Aerosol and surface ...