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How to Protect Property During Hurricanes with the Right Spill Kit
When hurricanes and tropical storms strike, the risk to property goes beyond wind and rain. Floodwater often mixes with oils, gasoline, and hazardous chemicals, creating ...
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How to Protect Workers from Extreme Heat: What You Need to Know
As temperatures climb each summer, thousands of workers across industries including agriculture, construction, utilities, and oil & gas face serious health risks due to extreme ...
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Extreme Weather Events: Protect structures from flooding
Extreme Weather Flooding Prevention Using Liquid Containment Methods and Absorbents Prepare for hurricanes and extreme weather events and how to reduce the effects of flooding ...
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Safe Remediation Techniques for Handling Chemical Spills Effectively
Chemical spills occur when harmful or hazardous substances are released into the environment, posing risks to human health and the ecosystem. They typically result from ...
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Best Practices for Efficient and Safe Blood Cleanup
Click to Expand Blood cleanup requires adherence to best practices to ensure efficiency and safety. Whether dealing with small spills or larger incidents, proper procedures ...
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Blood Spills In All the Wrong Places
If you’re British (or know someone who is), the word “bloody” is part of your vocabulary. For example, “Took your bloody time getting here, mate!” ...
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Absorbent Booms: Enhancing Environmental Safety
Absorbent booms are cylindrical devices utilized in industrial or environmental environments to contain and absorb liquid spills. They are typically made of sponge-like substances and ...
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Please Squeeze the Squeegee!
A classic television commercial carried the amusing tagline, “Please don’t squeeze the Charmin!” Since TP is not an inherently fascinating product, this humorous approach caught ...
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Things Go Better When You Have A Plan
There used to be an amusing series of radio commercials in which an unsuspecting person would experience a severe loss — their house would blow ...
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Splashing Out on a Whole New Look
Everybody enjoys dressing up and going to parties, especially at the end of the year, when so many places are decorated with beautiful lighting, and ...
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Give Me A Break — Ouch!
Sometimes walking on flat surfaces can be trickier than climbing a mountain. One of our team tripped on an uneven sidewalk surface and went down ...
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How to Hazmat: A Primer On What to Avoid
A few weeks ago, some hazmat workers in a town north of Impact Absorbents’ headquarters stopped an early morning chemical spill from reaching local waterways. ...
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Foodies: Are You Spill Savvy?
It’s that time of year again: friends and relatives near and far choose to clog the highways and byways of our fine land in an ...
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Coney Island: A Spill-Safe Place to Live?
Coney Island, located at the tip of Brooklyn, is nicknamed, “Playground of the World,” thanks to its plethora of amusement parks and reputation as a ...
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El Nino Returns: What Will It Mean for Our Winter?
Children don’t typically influence the weather, though they are known for precipitating spill clean up events. But El Nino (“little boy” in Spanish) is a ...
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Clock This: Time Changes Everything
At 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 5th, the United States will turn back the clock. No, we’re not heading into a kinder, gentler era; just ...
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Transparency: Know What’s In Your Spill Clean Up Products
Transparency is a hot topic these days. Celebrities wear transparent clothing on the red carpet. Sometimes they even forget to put on pants. That’s being ...
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Pay Attention! It’s Accident Season
Attention isn’t a recognized medium of exchange. You can’t buy groceries with it, or get your car fixed by listening with unwavering attention to the ...
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The Secret Life of Leaves
Leaves are all around us, and serve so many purposes. Leafy greens are good for you; you’ll want to eat lots of them. Turning over ...
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31 Years Young!
Impact Absorbents has been leading the spill clean up and spill containment industry for more than three decades. With worldwide distribution, it’s amazing to realize ...
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Just Say No to Clay
Remember Nancy Reagan’s Just Say No campaign? Hers targeted drugs, but made no mention of clay. Which is too bad, because clay is definitely hazardous ...
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Management Tips for Spill Heroes
A lot of people aspire to a management position, especially when they’re just starting out in their career. Of course, if you own your own ...
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Textbooks — Or Texts?
Do children even study from textbooks anymore, or is it all screens now? Are there still human teachers at the head of the classroom, or ...
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The Heat Is On
Wildfires have been incresaingly in the news over the past few years. There’s been larger and larger wildfire events in all corners of the US ...
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Don’t Mondegreen Your Spill Clean Up!
Remember that Jimi Hendrix classic, Purple Haze, where he sang, “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy”? Or what about when Credence Clearwater Revival appeared ...
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You’re So Square (Baby I Don’t Care)
The tune was written for Elvis, and recorded by him as well as a slew of other famous musicians, including the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, and ...
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Botox Your Business for Spill Safety
That’s a pretty strange title, isn’t it? Yet think about what Botox does: it’s a non-surgical procedure that helps you look younger, with fewer facial ...
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Going to Extremes
We’re living in extreme times with increasing heat, wildfires, & floods. Ben Zaitchik, professor in the Earth and planetary sciences department at Johns Hopkins University, ...
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