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Special Invitation to the 2023 EHS Seminar & Tradeshow JUNE 5-8, 2023 Moody Gardens Hotel and Convention Center 7 Hope Blvd Galveston, Texas Caliche extends a cordial invitation to our clients and contact to join
Join us for the 33rd Annual Safety & Health Conference Every year for the past 33 years, attendees across all professional demographics join together to share with, and learn from, industry peers. With courses from
Senate Confirms Head of OSHA
Study Finds Association Between Shift Work & Risk of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity
“Safety isn’t expensive, it’s priceless.” – Author unknown
20 Years and Counting!
Caliche, Ltd., a Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Consulting and Management Firm, is pleased to announce our 20 Year Anniversary. On November 12, 2003, Caliche, Ltd. completed the purchase of Environmental Technologies, Inc. and immediately stated providing HSE professional services throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, Florida, and globally.
The European Commission has issued a series of reports and a proposal concerning the current status of asbestos in the European Union. In summary, the EC reports some 4.1 million workers are occupationally…
The Team at Caliche, LTD., wishes you and yours…Peace, Joy, and warm wishes for this holiday season. We are honored to count you as our client. Thank you for your trust and loyalty. In the new year, our ambition….
October 20, 2022 at 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Speaker Gerry Luther, OHST, CIT, CIE – Chief Operating Officer of Caliche Management, LLC, will be presenting “Hidden Hazards That Bite” at the American Society of Safety Professionals North Section Meeting
“NIOSH: Approved Respirators Cannot Be Altered to Improve Fit” “Concerns regarding statements in the user instructions for several filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) manufactured by NIOSH approval holders prompted the agency to publish a notice stressing
2022 Region III ASSP Professional Development ConferenceAugust 29 – August 31, 2022San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk889 East Market Street, San Antonio, TXRead More – https://region3.assp.org/events/region-iii-assp-pdc/
VPPPA® Presents Safety+ An Integrated Safety & Health Management Systems Symposium, Tuesday, August 23 – Thursday, August 25, 2022 Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington D.C. More Information – https://www.vpppa.org/events/safety-symposium/
The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists 2022 guidelines for Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) and Biological Exposure Indices (BEIs) have identified the following proposed changes to the chemicals or implemented changes to stressors listed below:
April 2022 – Completed Urea Ammonium Nitrate (UAN) air monitoring, respirator training, quantitative fit-testing, and UAN Hazard Awareness training for one of our maritime clients.
“More than 50 percent of workers exposed to noise in 2014 did not wear hearing protection consistently, a study conducted by NIOSH researchers has found. Published earlier this month in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, the study shows that inconsistent use of hearing protection was more prevalent in industries that have fewer noise–exposed workers.”
January 2022 – CIH completed review and submitted comments of a company’s Site-Specific Health and Safety Plan designed for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) Superfund Site Discovery and Assessment Program (SSDAP) and Remediation
1st Quarter, 2022 – Renewed service contracts with Texas Children’s Hospital and Houston Methodist Hospital.
US 2019 SAFETY AND HEALTH
STATISTICS
By: Frank M. Parker, III – CIH, CSP, PE, BCEE
The US Bureau of Statistics has published its summary of injuries, illnesses and fatalities
reported by private industry for the year 2019 [bls.gov/iif/oshsum.htm#19Summary_Tables]. In
summary:
