Such an appropriate theme for the 10th Biennial Governors Pacific-RimSafety and Health Conference 2008 being held this month! Safety professionals from all over the Pacific and beyond are expected to converge at the Hawaii State Convention Center for 3 days of safety classes, seminars, briefings and learning. In addition to that, representatives from over 100 companies will be in attendance, exhibiting new products along side with those tested and true safety items used in every aspect of life. As always, we at Safety Systems Hawaii will be there with 20 booths of displays and products for attendees to see and learn about.

Visiting us with information about their product lines will be representatives from...

• Allegro
• Barrier Systems
• Bulwark
• Draeger Safety
• Justrite
PIP
• MDI
• ML Kishigo
• Solar Tech
• Speedshore
• Sperian
Spill Control, Inc.
• Symons
• Working Concepts, Inc.
• Brandy Signs

We will also have booths set up with other brand items plus laptops for registered attendees to look over our website for items we just couldn't fit into our booths. With over 10,000 products - the website is the best way to see what we carry! In addition to all this, we have a special thank you gift for those who show a greater interest in our product lines (participation is required). Oh, and let's not forget! You can enter to win a $100.00 gift certificate for shopping at one of our stores on Oahu or Maui!

So if you are registered for the "PacRim" sessions on May 19, 20 & 21, come and visit with us on the exhibit days - Monday and Tuesday - just look for all the red shirts! A hui hou!

It has been said that cleanliness is next to godliness, however no one ever mentions how safe it is! Clean work environments are sometimes taken for granted until an accident happens - so do not forget to put away your tools and clean up debris. But still there is a hidden danger, or maybe it is not so hidden. What is that danger you ask? Dust. Mostly overlooked, but still a rather dangerous safety hazard, dust permeates into places you'd never think to look; accumilating into dangerous quantities. Or maybe dust is part of your everyday work life, but you just do not know the dangers all that dust imposes.

Besides being a health issue which can trigger asthma or allergic reactions, dust can and does pose a serious safety issue in almost every workplace. Staff writer, Valerie Hatanaka, provides us with a more indepth look at just how dangerous those "dust bunnies" can really be in this month's article, How Dangerous is Your Job?. Feel free to download, print, and distribute the article to your staff - you may never look at those seemingly harmless dust particles in sunbeams the same way again. You need to have a PDF Reader to view this document.

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