Health
Surgeon General: Did You Help Clean Up the Oil Spill? If So, We Need You
Surgeon General Dr. Regina M. Benjamin is encouraging workers and volunteers who assisted with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup operations to come forward and participate in a long-term study examining potential health effects of the spill...
The Cost of Hand and Wrist Injuries
More than 2 million people visited U.S. emergency rooms for symptoms related to the hand and wrist in 2009. Now, researchers in the Netherlands have found that in addition to being pervasive, hand and wrist injuries also are one of the most costly injury types...
Expecting Better: Report Claims New Parents Need More Workplace Protections
A new report released before Mother's Day suggests that working American parents who have a new child receive inadequate support through the state laws and regulations that govern paid leave and workplace rights...
Useful Resources
NIOSH/OSHA/DOE Health Guidelines
These OSHA/NIOSH/DOE guidelines summarize pertinent information about chemicals for workers and employers as well as for physicians, industrial hygienists, and other occupational safety and health professionals who may need such information to conduct effective occupational safety and health programs. Recommendations may be superseded by new developments; readers are therefore advised to regard these recommendations as general guidelines and to determine periodically whether new information is available.
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