ISEA MID July 7, 2017

July 7, 2017

In This Issue

ISEA News

New ISEA Member Announcement - Ironwear
Join ISEA's Lunch-and-Learn Call to Discuss Key Policy Developments Impacting the PPE Industry, July 17

Safety Industry & Member News

July 2017 Product Innovations (3M Safety, Drager, Ergodyne, Honeywell, Petzl, Radians, Scott Safety)
MCR Safety ANSI/ISEA 105-2016 Cut Test Demo
DSM Dyneema Hosts Training for North Carolina Law Enforcement Officers
All-Important Equipment When Seconds Count
Q&A: The Evolving State of Industrial Vending

Washington Update

Fall Protection Not Used in 86 Percent of Fatal Oil and Gas Extraction Falls
Committee Hears More About Deadly Black Lung Resurgence

Emerging PPE & Global News

Sean Petterson, 27, Designs Exoskeletons That Help Industrial Workers Do Their Jobs Without Injury (3M Safety)

ISEA News

New ISEA Member Announcement - Ironwear

ISEA, the leading association for personal protective equipment and technologies, and

ANSI-accredited standards developing organization is pleased to welcome Ironwear as its newest member.

Join ISEA's Lunch-and-Learn Call to Discuss Key Policy Developments Impacting the PPE Industry

Please join your colleagues for an all-Member conference call on key developments in Washington impacting the PPE industry.

In addition, the call will cover current Administration position on NAFTA renegotiations;

Border Adjustment Tax (is anyone willing to call it dead yet?) and more.

Date: Monday, July 17

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EST).

Call in number: 800-989-2842; passcode is 525-1695

Safety Industry & Member News

July 2017 Product Innovations (3M Safety, Drager, Ergodyne, Honeywell, Petzl,

Radians, Scott Safety)

The July 2017 EHS Today issue highlights products from footwear to head protection to gas monitors.

MCR Safety ANSI/ISEA 105-2016 Cut Test Demo

Brian Singer, Corporate Quality Assurance Manager, demonstrates the ANSI/ISEA

105-2016 cut resistance test.

DSM Dyneema Hosts Training for North Carolina Law Enforcement Officers

DSM Dyneema is a founding sponsor of non-profit Below 100, helping to fund the

organization since its inception, providing critical support to advance the mission of

reducing preventable in-the-line-of-duty deaths to a number below 100 each year.

All-Important Equipment When Seconds Count

Placement of emergency eyewash equipment is very important. A person in pain and with

possibly obstructed vision should be able to traverse the path from hazard to the flushing

units within seconds.

Q&A: The Evolving State of Industrial Vending

Industrial vending has been one of the fastest growing markets in the industrial supply

sector over the past five years as the technology has advanced to do much more than just dispense small items.

Washington Update

Fall Protection Not Used in 86 Percent of Fatal Oil and Gas Extraction Falls

In 86 percent of fatal falls in this study period, fall protection was required by regulation, but

i t was not used, was used improperly, or the equipment failed. Among the 24 fatal falls where

fall protection was used, 15 (63 percent) workers were wearing a harness, but they fell

because their harness was not attached to an anchor point.

Committee Hears More About Deadly Black Lung Resurgence

Congress has asked the National Academy of Sciences to investigate and an ad hoc

committee is assessing current approaches to monitoring and sampling dust in underground mines.

Emerging PPE & Global News

Sean Petterson, 27, Designs Exoskeletons That Help Industrial Workers Do Their Jobs Without Injury (3M Safety)

Workplace injuries are a major problem for blue-collar workers. StrongArm Technologies

makes wearable protective technology to help industrial workers avoid injury.

Send company events and important announcements to include in the MID to Lydia Baugh.

For policy related questions, please contact Dan Glucksman at 703-525-1695.

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