It is the responsibility of the RIT EH&S Department to help ensure faculty, staff, students, and visitors have a safe and healthy working and learning environment in all RIT owned and operated ...

A panel divided into nine even squares shows different shades of wood flooring. The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a safe exposure threshold for formaldehyde, a chemical intermediate ...

In 1983, OSHA issued the Hazard Communication Standard (29 CFR 1910.1200) to protect workers from exposure to the hazards of all chemicals in their workplace. The standard, commonly called the HAZCOM ...

Chemical spills vary from incidental to deadly. No matter the spill type, as a responder, you risk overexposure. When entering a hot zone, you must be protected against the actual or potential hazards ...

The study assesses pesticide exposure and DNA damage in 45 Latinx children ages 10 to 12 from rural, farmworker families (30) and urban, non-farmworker families (15). Participants were selected from a ...

From wildfires to floods, cleanup crews face serious respiratory and skin exposure risks. What lessons can be learned from the Lahaina and California fires and applied to PPE and respiratory ...

It is important to understand why it is vital that patients and survivors of cancer take steps to reduce the body’s burden both before and after treatment. Although some environmental factors are ...

Long-term exposure to high levels of the industrial degreasing chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) was associated with an increased risk for Parkinson’s disease (PD), a new study showed. Using data from ...

Just over 60 years ago, scientist and conservationist Rachel Carson warned that modern societies were contaminating the ...