OSHA with Wiscon organizes Tenth Annual Safety Training Day June 13^th 2013. Taught by WCTC instructors, this class is designed to prepare you to respond in emergency situations with skills that can save lives.  After completing this course, attendees are invited to sit in on Safety Day Classes at a very nominal fee where you can choose from a variety of topics like setting up an Industrial Hygiene program, OSHA record keeping, Contractor Safety in Manufacturing and many more.

Asthma is a chronic disease that causes the airways of the lungs to swell and narrow.  If you are a machine operator machining or grinding metals with metalworking media, BEWARE! - You are in high risk category.  “Work Related Asthama” can be caused by exposure to regular substances found in the workplace, like metalworking fluids, metal dust, and fumes.

End User's have come to expect the newer and more expensive metalworking fluid formulations to last longer. Extended life usually means the addition of biocides or the presence of bacteria.  Either can lead to a machine operator complaining about skin irritation because of metalworking fluid.  Ideally there should be no contact with working metalworking fluids, which is practically impossible. So what are the basic ways of skin care?

Although FILTRATION month is officially over, at MWFMAG we appreciate when companies send information to us, and on the argument that filtration makes for a safer fluid, here is another interesting product.  SWECO introduces the latest in fine particle separation for wet processing “SWECO Hydrocyclone System.”  These systems provide an economical and effective method for removing solid particles in the 4 to 100+ micron range.  For demanding applications SWECO can even provide

This 2010 paper from the European Respiratory Journal provides current and continued acknowledgement of the potential hazards of under-managed metalworking fluids.

A Helena man is suing Boeing for more than $75,000, saying that his health is compromised due to occupational exposure of unvented chemicals at its building on Airport Road.  In documents filed in U.S. District Court, Jeffrey Reed said he is a machinist, specializing in the manufacture of parts for the aeronautics industry, and began working at Summit Aeronautics Group in April 2007.

Oil mist and oil smoke is generated from a number of various manufacturing operations. Before we can take the correct measures to overcome the risks and harm, we need to know specifically what oil mist and oil smoke really are.

In the course of my 17 years of legal practice, I have developed a large number of anecdotes to share with my clients.  Clients are often dismayed at what seems to be the slow pace of justice to track down evil.  I offer the observation that although Mother Justice must take time to weigh things and seems to move as slow as this statue, when she finally gets where she's going, she'll be wielding a very large sword. 

We tip our hat to Alfred E. Newman and MAD Magazine and blame them for the way we operate this magazine. 

Separation equipment accounts for 22% of Alfa Laval's sales.  They have been around f o r e v e r.  We appreciate them most for having introducing portable centrifuges to the metalworking fluid industry over a decade ago.

So you don't want to but any of the fancy filtration equipment we have been showcasing?  The new Valicor® brings together two recognized names in fluid purification and resource management technologies and services - Solution Recovery Services and United Waste Water.  Valicor’s provides on-site Fluid Purification Modules, Contamination Control, and Fluid Control programs designed to manage your escalating metalworking fluid related costs.  They take a service based approach