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What's New

The Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), located in Montreal, has created a new website to help workers and OHS managers select protective gloves for specific applications. The site (http://www.irsst.qc.ca/gants/en/index.html) allows visitors to search by glove model or type of hazard, such as cut, puncture, or tear. Waterproof, chemical resistance level, and food handling are additional selections that are available.

A PDF document on the site offers information about current laws and regulations, risk management, glove types and materials, hazards, and manufacturing processes.

To mark its 30th anniversary, IRSST also is offering a $10,000 prize this year to the author or authors of the best scientific article published in the past five years in occupational safety and health. The deadline to apply is June 28. A jury of scientific experts will judge the contest.

What's Coming Down the Pipeline?

EPA action on Short-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins (SCCPs) and Other Chlorinated Paraffins. SCCPs are persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic to aquatic organisms at low concentrations.

EPA intends to:
-Consider initiating TSCA §6(a) rulemaking to limit or ban SCCPs.
-Address SCCP reporting issue on TSCA inventory and take follow-up action, which could include enforcement action, if appropriate, to require companies to submit Pre-Manufacture Notices for the SCCPs fractions that are not on the TSCA Inventory.

If appropriate the EPA will take additional action under TSCA §5 to address the risks posed by SCCPs.
-Address reporting issues on TSCA inventory for medium- and long-chain chlorinated paraffins, taking follow-up action as appropriate. Evaluate whether the medium- and long-chain chlorinated paraffins pose a risk which should be addressed under TSCA §6(a) ban authority.

Summary of Short-Chain Chlorinated Paraffin's Action Plan

The low down on the EPA & chlorinated paraffins

Chlorinated Paraffins (used as extreme pressure additives)

Simon Says

KEN launches at STLE Annual Conference

The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication engineers (STLE) held its annual meeting at Bally's Hotel in Las Vegas this year, running from May 16th through the 20th. KEN, the Knowledge Education Network, a website dedicated to promoting health, safety & environmental best practices officially launched at the show. Thanks go out to all our friends and colleagues that stopped by the Primagy booth and showed interest in the site. The feedback was invaluable.

Read the press release

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