It is now well recognised that occupational disease is the biggest cause of work-related deaths in the UK and that thousands of people suffer from the results of an occupational disease each ye...
An Urban Community is a local, intermunicipal government institution, regrouping cities over a large territory. Every year, its technical department carries out numerous studies and measurement...
Success of mosquitoes as insect vectors of human disease is linked to their ability to seek out, pin-point and target human hosts in preference animal hosts, achieved by strong insect attractio...
Worldwide, increasingly stringent regulations are coming into force limiting the exposure of workers to industrial noise. Over 1 million employees in Great Britain are exposed to levels of noise...
The role that sample containers play in the field of research is changing. These days research laboratories, whether it be for clinical trials, QA/AC pharmaceuticals, drugs manufacturers, foren...
Tim Turney, Product Manager for Noise Instrumentation at Casella Measurement Ltd, reviews and explores how noise dosimeters play a more important role in workplace noise assessments.
It is now almost a year since the compulsory full application of the ATEX “User” Directive (199/92/EC) throughout the European Economic Area and it is worth reviewing how things are progressin...
The illegal trade in and manufacture of drugs represent enormous factors in the global economy and crime statistics world-wide. The number of people harmed is constantly growing as the average age...
Health and safety professionals have addressed the hazards of lead as early as 370 BC when Hippocrates identified lead poisoning in miners. Sadly, in the year 2003, lead remains the number one env...
As this article is being published, we will have just completed the interim application of the ATEX Directives. By 1 July 2006, all plants within Europe should be able to demonstrate full complian...