Safety

In recent years wildfires have entered urban areas, causing breathtaking destruction. The 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise and Butte County, California was the...

The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued a joint alert warning that...

Can you keep operating during the COVID-19 pandemic? What if travel is curtailed? You and your most experienced people can plan now so...

I had waited months for a March trip to Florida to meet my brother for some fishing on the Gulf of Mexico....

[Editor's note: This story was edited to clarify a misstatement and to add recommendations for wastewater operators from the Centers for Disease...

Everyone in the industry has heard at least one horror story about someone getting fired or demoted for reporting a safety violation. In...

In years past, operators ran water and wastewater treatment plants based largely on experience, intuition, manual measurements, sights, sounds and smells. Today, data...

Water and wastewater plant maintenance has undergone a revolution. Operators have moved from routinely servicing machinery at predetermined intervals regardless of condition...

Thirty minutes — that’s all it took for an unprecedented flooding event to almost incapacitate a major Seattle-area wastewater treatment plant and...

Three utility workers in the Florida Keys died this week after climbing into a manhole and being overcome by hydrogen sulfide and...

Spill absorption materials include cellulose, cotton, synthetics and crushed fossilized shells. Another such material, Premium Wood Pellets from Bald Eagle Pellet Co.,...

There’s a variety of dangers associated with working at water and wastewater treatment plants, and one of the most deadly hazards is...

A 31-year-old man died Oct. 26 after becoming trapped in a tank at the Coney Island Wastewater Treatment plant in Sheepshead Bay,...

When faced with a licensing exam, don't struggle with test anxiety! Use the question below and others from our Exam Study Guide series to properly...

“From where I live in McMurray, I could see the fire bombers from our backyard, but I didn’t think twice about it.”That’s...

The U.S. Department of Labor is challenging inventors and entrepreneurs to help develop a technological solution to workplace noise exposure and related...

A massive storm has washed out roads, bridges and critical underground infrastructure in northern Wisconsin, essentially severing the area from the rest...