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Gas detection for refrigerant gases and confined spaces and extra comfortable FR jeans were among the top occupational safety and health products featured on ISHN.com this week. Refrigerant gas is considered a toxic gas and although refrigerants have low toxicity, at high concentrations they can displace oxygen. That's why you want to detect leaks at the earliest level.

Breweries throughout the world pose unique challenges when it comes to CO2 in the workplace. The gas gives fizz to our favorite bubbly beverages, yet it can be a potential deathtrap for those producing it. With beer sales reaching $111.4 billion in revenue in 2016, brewing production is at an all-time high and monitoring for potential CO2 exposure is becoming an industry essential for brewery workers. Confined spaces are in one word, dangerous.

A new standard for construction in the wind energy industry, sobering study results about an understudied, in-the-air group of workers and another city takes on high sodium in restaurants. These were among the top stories featured on ISHN.com this week.