The weather is hot, patience is short, and it seems to make no sense at all to oblige everyone to sign in to get access to my free handout of the OSHA PPE handbook. (Wow! For a moment there had to stop to think, couldn?t remember how to spell ?ccess?!) Must be some kind of mental block I guess.Lately have been getting some really positive feedback at findppe.com, this little blog is extracted from my latest post there. Thanks Folks for that, really nice believe me, and very much appreciated. Now

Well - Summer is here! The upcoming 3 - 4 months are going to be hot. A lot of forecasters are talking about maybe the hottest summer since the seventies. May be true, may not, but for sure the ambient temperature for all of us is going to be higher than we have probably seen for the last 9 months or so. Not strange, summer is the hottest season so nothing unusual. From all around the northern hemisphere I see reports of people dying from effects of the heat, which probably is unusual in June, b

Today I read an article in a local paper about a French small-businessman just into his 40s who apparently about 3 years ago doing something at home suffered a seemingly insignificant scratch on his finger, which he thought no more about at the time.A few days later he went on holiday with his wife and young children. One night he had a headache so went to bed early. During the night he slipped into a coma caused by a rare infection stemming from the scratched finger which lasted a month.When he