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See the latest companies and individuals who have been charged or
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Hot Topics
Is Azodicarbonamide in bread at Subway, McDonalds and other
foods safe?
Read more here.
Cell
phones and the link to cancer - do cell phones cause cancer?
Update from WHO
Compact
Fluorescent Lights (CFLs) Advantages and Problems, new laws
Bed Bug infestations are a growing epidemic.
See this page about bed bugs
and if you are going to a hotel or motel,
check this page for tips specific to staying in hotels and motels.
Using pure steam kills bed bugs, dust mites and dissolves
dirt and grime, while removing germs and bacteria from the
surfaces that you're cleaning. Steam is also an economical and
environmentally friendly thing to do. There is no longer the
need to use harsh and toxic chemicals. See this steam cleaner:
New Vapamore MR100 Primo Steam Cleaner.
Dustmites produce allergies that affect infants, children and adults.
See this page about dust mites for what you can do.
April 22 is Earth day - Read about it here. And find an Earth Day event near you here!
Or
Find a
recycling center in your area for your old tv, computer, cell phone,
batteries, washing machine and more
Search for Peanut Containing Product Recalls
Peanut Containing Product Recall (Salmonella Typhimurium
Outbreak): FDA Main Page
Do's and Don'ts During the Peanut Salmonella Outbreak: FDAs Dr.
Stephen Sundlof (this is a video file)
Caffeine and Your
Health - The latest about Caffeine and Pregnancy / Miscarriages
Headaches at work? Could it be the older fluorescent lights? Click here for health issues associated with fluorescent light flicker, such as headaches. Benzene in your soda? FDA tests find benzene in 5 brands of soft drinks. Get the details here.
Other Alerts:
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REMINDER: KEEP UP WITH THE OSHA INJURY REPORTING LOGS
Employers with 11 or more employees must maintain "Log and Summary of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses." throughout the year and post it every year in February. The form is to be displayed wherever notices to employees are usually posted.
Get the 300, 300A, 301 Forms here free: as PDF (352 KB) (Then click the printer icon to print) or Excel (150 KB).
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In alphabetical order by subject. Note: Pages designed for the general public are preceded by an asterisk - * - the other pages are more technical or regulatory pages of more interest to EHS professionals.
A - * Aflatoxin (typically in peanut butter)
- * Acid Rain (overview, regs and publications)
- Acronyms for environmental health and safety issues
- Acronyms, terms and links to for Superfund, CERCLA and related agencies
- Air pollution
- *Air regs, issues, guidance
- * Air - Indoor air quality
- Allergy information
- *Alzheimer's Disease and aluminum
- Analytical
- Animal Waste - issues, resources, links
- *Anthrax
- * Ants in the home and yard - and pesticides
- * Arsenic in foods - warnings about apple juice and rice
- *Asbestos in the home - Overview Information, health effects, background
- Asbestos Main Page, for EHS professionals
- *Aspartame (NutraSweet), diet drinks and your health
- Assessments - environmental site assessments, Phase I and II's, compliance assessments, etc., and some excellent guides to download.
- *Asthma
- Auditing - Environmental auditing, state and EPA policies regarding audits.
- Automobiles
B
C - * Caffeine and health effects (on fertility, etc.)
- *Cancer (unusually high number of exposure in area)
- *Candles - burning candles affects indoor air quality
- * Carcinogens - list of cancer-causing compounds - also see cancer above
- *Carpet Allergy
- Cell phones, Cancer and Brain Tumors
- *Cellular Communications Towers and Cancer
- CERCLA - Superfund
- Chemical Information - MSDS and data direct from chemical manufacturers - a super guide to manufacturer's MSDS sites.
- * Chemical Sensitivity also called MCS - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
- *Children - issues affecting your children
- Chemical wastes (see Hazardous Waste)
- Chemical Waste Management, Inc.
- Christmas trees - natural, living, rooted trees and choose-and-cut tree farms
- Clean Air Act - see Air
- *Cleaning Products
- Climate Change (also see Global Warming)
- Clip art, photos and graphics (all free)
- Compact Fluorescent Lights - CFL's - How they work, advantages and disadvantages, mercury and health risks, cleanup and recycling
- Computers - household electronic waste
- Contact lens safety: FDA's Investigation of Serious Eye Infections Associated With Soft Contact Lens Use and Contact Lens (April 10, 2006)
- Contingency planning and emergency response, also see Emergency response, below
- * Cosmetics and your health
- *Consumer Health Information
- * Consumer protection
- *Consumer product safety information
- * Cockroaches and allergies
- Cookware: What types of pots and pans are safest to cook in?
- *Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
- *Crimes - polluters
- *Cryptosporidiosis (in drinking water)
D
E
Enforcement - Enforcement of environmental regulations and laws, how to report a potential violation, lists of violators and guidance documents
- Enforcement of Food and Product Safety laws and regulations
- Environmental causes of disease (both man-made and natural)
- Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)
- Environmental Professionals resource pages:
- *Environmental Performance information - How safe and clean are the companies in YOUR community? Find out here, for free!
- *Environmental Policy for Native Americans on the Reservation
- Environmental Laws and Regulations (HTML)- Title 40 CFR<
- (or as text and pdf files)
- IncludingAIR, WATER, PESTICIDE, RADIATION, NOISE, ABATEMENT, OCEAN DUMPING, SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTES, SUPERFUND, EMERGENCY PLANNING, AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW, EFFLUENT GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS, SEWAGE SLUDGE, ENERGY POLICY, AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (TSCA)
- EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contacts, links, phone
numbers and downloads
- EPCRA - Community Right-to-Know - includes the Form R reporting forms to download, guidance documents, and free software. Also see TRI below
- *Epoxy Paint Fumes
- * Ergonomics resources
- Exercise and Fitness: The
Fitness and Health Science.org website provides loads of free information, based on years of research at major universities, and the experience of the university trainers, the information and fitness guides are easy to understand, easy to get in shape - just follow the free guide, completely illustrated and free workout routine and record sheet
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Exit
requirements in the workplace - see the regs and guidance here!
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1910.36 - Design and construction requirements for exit routes.
See an interpretation letter here
See full
F - Family Health Issues
- Farmers
- FDA: Food and Drug Administration
- Federal Government
- *Federal Regulations - environmental regs and laws
- Federal Register Notices & News -all
- FIFRA - Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
& Rodenticide Act - also see "Pesticides" under letter P
- Filters
- Air filters / purifiers
- Water filters / purifiers
- *Fire Safety
- * Fisteria (actually, Pfiesteria) a parasite in seafood
- Fitness and exercise: The
Fitness and Health Science.org website provides loads of free information, based on years of research at major universities, and the experience of the university trainers, the information and fitness guides are easy to understand, easy to get in shape - just follow the free guide, completely illustrated and free workout routine and record sheet
- Grounding requirements (OSHA / NFPA 30) for flammable liquids
- *Floods:
- Fluorescent light flicker, and related health issues, such as headaches,
- Fluorescent Light disposal
- *Foam building insulation
- * Food additives - what are they, which are dangerous, etc. also see Food Supplements
- Food Chain issues - and
man's interdependence with nature
- * Food issues
- Food Irradiation
- Food Poisoning
- * Food Safety
- Food Supplements
- *Forests
- * Formaldehyde - and indoor air quality, your health
- Forms:
- * Freon - exposure to, and your health
- * Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the EPA, Environmental issues and EHSO
- Fruits - where to find a "pick your own" farm - www.pickyourown.org
- *Frog (deformities)
- Fuel economy guides for automobiles sold in the U.S. and further information
- Funeral Homes and environmental compliance
- *Fungus (fatal in infants)
G
H
I
J - Jobs for Environmental and safety professionals
- Journals:
K
L - Labor rules - see DOL, employment and OSHA
- Lab Packs - Information about packing and removing small (less than 10 gallons each) containers of hazardous chemicals, cleaners, paints, etc. for disposal.
- Labpack firms - companies that pack and dispose of lab chemicals and other small quantities
- Laboratories
- *Landfill (contamination)
- *Laws: environmental regulations and laws
- * Lead Poisoning in the home and community
- *Legionnaire's Disease
- Links to the Federal Government
- Links to related (and unrelated, but useful) sites. Eg., environmental organizations, weather, affiliates, etc.
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- *Listeria -Hot dogs, luncheon meats and Listeriosis
- *Lyme Disease
M
N - NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act
- News Plus (the latest environmental, safety, and gov't news services, subscriptions, etc.)
- NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG)
The NPG is a source of general industrial hygiene information on several hundred chemicals/classes for workers, employers, and occupational health professionals. It presents key information and data in abbreviated or tabular form for chemicals or substance groupings (e.g. cyanides, fluorides, manganese compounds) that are found in the work environment.
You can download a free stand-alone HTML version of the NPG compressed as a
ZIP file. The ZIP file contains a condensed version of the NPG. All
non-Pocket Guide links were removed so that this set of files acts as a
"stand-alone" database. These files can be used with a standard web browser
or on some mobile devices.
- *Nuclear wastes
O
P
*Pets - and your health - take care of both
*Pfiesteria a parasite in seafood
Phase I Assessments and other compliance assessments - including some great guides to download
Photos, clip art and graphics (all free)
Clip Art - Free Graphics for safety training ***
Pollution Prevention - including online tools to search for alternatives
*Pollution
*Pollutors - How to report environmental violations and polluters
Power lines and cancer - see "EMF"
PPE - Personal Protection Equipment
Pregnancy and Environmental FactorsProduct Safety Process Safety Management (PSM)
*Product safety information
Publications:
*Free fact sheets, publications, brochures from the EPA
*THE comprehensive list of Environmental Magazines and Journals
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
- * West Nile Virus
- * Wetlands - introduction and fact sheets
- * Wine - sulfites
- * Women's Health, including environmental effects on pregnancy
- Worker Rights - Wages and Breaks
- Worker rights, laws, wages, links to state pages, etc. - Department of Labor
- What Breaks (Rest, Snack, Meals, Smoking, Health, Etc.) Am I Entitled To under FLSA (the Fair Labor Standards Act)?
- The FLSA - Fair Labor Standards Act
- Exemption for Salaried Executive, Administrative, Professional, Computer & Outside Sales Employees Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) - Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay Requirements
- Fact sheets - many free Department of Labor fact sheets on a wide variety of subjects
- Frequently asked questions about wages and benefits
- * Workplace health issues *- how to protect your health at work
- State labor laws and rules - find out about your state here.
- Teen Worker Rights
- Teen work: what may children legally do for work?
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