Pharmaceutical

by Naomi German, Associate Industrial Hygiene Consultant I went on vacation to Fiji recently, and, during my stay, I met a lovely elderly couple named Toby and Ed, ages 80 and 83 respectively, both of whom wore hearing aids. During the group snorkeling adventures, my partner and I would stifle a laugh as Ed removed […]

by Naomi German As a recent college graduate from Purdue University with a Bachelor’s in Industrial Hygiene, I often get the question at the Thanksgiving table, “So…what is industrial hygiene? Why did you choose it as a career? What do you actually do?” And then there’s the “Is it like a dental hygienist?”   (If you’ve […]

How AbbVie Streamlined Their Contractor Management Process

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Cardinal Health Avoids $1 Million in Workers’ Compensation Costs with Ergonomics Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. is a global, integrated healthcare services and products company, providing customized solutions for hospitals, health systems, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories, and physician offices worldwide. In 2012, ergonomics became one of Cardinal Health’s priorities when 50 […]

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The pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is a unique environment in a number of ways, but especially when it comes to ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk. There are the typical manual material handling (MMH) tasks like lifting and moving product in a warehouse, but many injuries in this industry are actually from lab tasks. And while […]

Many jobs in the pharmaceutical manufacturing and food & beverage industries are taxing on the body. With repetitive motions and long periods of time spent working in awkward positions, employees in these industries are at a high risk for developing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).   Good thing we’ve got you covered.  Here are 2 new infographics that break down the positions with the highest MSD risk in the pharmaceutical manufacturing and food […]

HAZOP is another one of those environmental, health and safety terms that sounds like a big, scary deal. But like the EHS umbrella it falls under, risk management, HAZOP is simple to understand when you break it down.   HAZOP is a type of risk analysis, and stands for Hazard and Operability study. “Study,” in this sense, means a structured examination of processes (existing or planned) to identify […]