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Currently featured in the April 2025 Synergist
Is Your Noise Dosimeter Lying?
The Challenge of Mixed Impulse-Gaussian Noise Environments
Your noise dosimeter isn't telling the whole story when it comes to impulse noise and auditory risk. To understand the full picture, it is necessary to review the measurement of pure impulse noise and examine strategies to measure mixed impulse-Gaussian environments.
Respiratory Protection Outside the Workplace
Protecting Those Without Respiratory Protection Programs from Inhalation Hazards
When the general population and workers without respiratory protection programs use respiratory protective equipment (RPE), they likely use it incorrectly, which means they aren’t receiving the maximum level of protection. After the events of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the entire population became familiar with RPE, this can no longer be ignored.
Shedding Light on Trucking
Health and Safety Challenges for Professional Drivers
Truck driving is a renowned profession in the logistics business. However, issues related to vehicle maintenance and recruitment, the adverse effects of long hours, poor working conditions, and inadequate pay put stress on drivers’ overall health. The medical literature on this issue has underlined the need to improve health and safety among drivers.
Features from the March 2025 Synergist
Protecting Data Center Workers
Environmental, Health, and Safety Considerations in a Rapidly Growing Industry
The explosion in data storage demand has required companies that offer data management and storage services to provide increased capacity for the safe and seamless management, storage, and accessibility of data processors. The growth in data centers creates challenges related to the development, construction, and maintenance of these facilities, including a number of EHS considerations.
Selecting an Equitable PPE Vendor
How to Meet the Needs of a Diverse Workforce
A previous Synergist article highlighted the problem of inequitable PPE solutions that do not account for anthropomorphic fit, a woman’s body shape and size, and the need for unique personal protective clothing. Now it’s time to move beyond simply identifying the challenges and focus on one of the next steps in an effective PPE program: vendor selection.
The Art of the Possible
AI's Potential for Extracting Data from SDSs
Safety data sheets are critical for workplace and product safety, but processing them is tedious, time-consuming, and error prone. Artificial intelligence helped solve these challenges at one organization. The lessons from this experience may provide product stewards, OEHS professionals, and others responsible for SDS management a better understanding of this emerging technology.
