It’s a rule of media advertising that smaller is cuter, especially small, furry animals with big eyes. But where is the cut-off point for how small cute can get? Obviously many people think kittens are cute, and they are pretty small. Little figurines are pretty cute. And those healthy […]

  Safety inspection reports weave a story about a chemical facility and establish a baseline for the state of the inventory. By leveraging cloud-based technology and hand-held devices, safety inspectors and EHS managers could track every deficiency from start to finish. Safety inspections are a win-win practice to lower liability […]

  This summer season, imagine spending the day splashing around, lounging in the sun and cheering for… Shamu? That’s right! For many of you in the Campus Health and Safety fields, next week will be spent in sunny Orlando, FL at the CSHEMA conference right next to Sea World. From […]

It seems like a simple thing, but I love being able to access my past emails. There is rich personal data in my past emails, which requires privacy and security. I can search my friend’s name to find our last chat or look up my electric company to see which […]

  In the world with Internet, there are bits of code floating around our head, zipping from our computers to routers to servers and back. There is a streaming digital web of information criss-crossing invisibly in front of us all day long. These strings of code flash through air and […]

    Everyone knows what exhaustion feels like. Working so hard that you collapse into bed at the end of the day. If you feel like you were productive and accomplished, then exhaustion every once in a while is okay. But if we start feeling down every day, as well […]

As Environment, Health & Safety professionals know, the responsibility of creating a safe workplace can be a monumental task. Luckily, this is made much easier with a best practices safety inspection system. Even for a master of Excel, a tailored data management program can do wonders for safety inspections! To […]

    Science, wonderful science! Our lives are completely augmented by the advancements since the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. Our species created technologies and industries to improve quality of life and average lifespan. We can thank R&D for our favorite clothes, amusement parks, vacations and even some foods. In […]

    As citizens of the world, we can all do our part to recycle, reduce and reuse. After all, we are the ones, along with the future generations, who have to live with the environment we fashion for ourselves. And who doesn’t want clear air and clean water? But, […]

    This week marks the end of a successful National Safety Month and our series at the ChemSW blog. For a send-off with style, here is a review of the great information we found across the web this month! At ChemSW, we know that lab safety discussions last all […]