NYC Implements Key Scaffold Safety Recommendations
While delivering a progress report addressing New York City’s strategic plan to protect workers on scaffolds, Buildings Commissioner Patricia J. Lancaster announced that the majority of the plan’s safety recommendations have been implemented, leading the way to safer work environments for scaffold employees...
SEIU Members Launch Unprecedented Health Care Campaign
A victory in the voting booth only matters if it translates into real help for the millions of American families who are struggling to make ends meet,...
Education Helps Back Pain Patients Return to Work, Study Says
Researchers in the Netherlands conducted a systematic review by analyzing 24 studies of adults who experienced both short-term and chronic lower back...
OSHAs New Program Addresses Crystalline Silica Hazards
Crystalline silica, a compound workers in the construction, maritime and general industries are routinely exposed to, is cited as the cause of silicosis,...
Excessive Hand Washing Linked to Hand Dermatitis
A study, conducted in collaboration with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the American Academy of Dermatology, focused...
Injured Employees Working Long Hours Face Job Loss Risks
Researchers at Ohio State University found those who worked extended hours were 81 percent more likely to be fired and 70 percent more likely to quit...
Greening Offers Safety, Health Advantages for the Hospitality Industry
The white paper, Safety Implications of Greening: Hospitality Executive Leadership Opportunities, points out that greening reduces the use and production...
Study: Female Shift Workers Retire Early Due to Illness, Disability
These findings were based on research from the Danish Work Environment Cohort Study, a large health and work study that examined approximately 8,000 male...
Industrial Degreaser Linked to Parkinsonism, Researchers Say
The team, led by Don M. Gash and John T. Slevin of the U.K. College of Medicine, identified a number of industrial workers who exhibited symptoms of Parkinsonism,...
Hospital Unveils Technologies for Next Generation Emergency Room
Unveiled at a press briefing Jan. 9, the Bridge to ER One will test innovations that include negative pressure isolation rooms to prevent the spread of...
Get in Shape at Your Desk
For many busy office-bound employees, sitting all day can cause a host of problems: back pain, muscle tightness, headaches, musculoskeletal problems,...
AAOHN: Employers Can Give Workers a Healthy Start in the New Year
A survey commissioned by AAOHN suggests that workplace weight-management programs play a tremendous role in helping employees achieve weight loss.In fact,...
CDC: Fatal Injury Rates Climb after 20-Year Decline
This increase follows a two-decade decline in mortality rates and indicates that fatal injuries are a risk not only in the workplace, but also during...
Injured Pa., Ontario Workers Receive Increased 2008 Benefits
Pennsylvania workers filing workers compensation claims in 2008 are eligible for higher weekly benefit amounts of up to $807, a $28 increase over last...
Expert Advice For Employers: Prepare for Pandemic Flu Now
Scott Mugno, FedEx Expresss managing director, corporate safety, health and fire protection, stated that as the threat of pandemic influenza was imminent,...
Study: Creative Work Promotes Health
The study, conducted by the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzed responses from 2,592 adults who responded to a national...
Obesity Linked to Job Absenteeism, Study Says
The study, which appears in the December issue of Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, is led by John Cawley, Ph.D., of Cornell University...
House Bill Could Improve Workers Comp for Federal Employees
The bill, Improving Access to Workers Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act, would amend the Federal Employees Compensation Act by recognizing...
Flexible Jobs Lead to Healthy Habits, Study Says
New research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that employees are more likely to adopt healthier lifestyles if provided with flexible work schedules...
Welder Awarded $20.5 Million in Lawsuit
A federal jury in Cleveland deliberated for more than a week before determining that Lincoln Electric Holdings, along with Hobart Brother Co., ESAB Group, TDY Industries and BOC Group, were negligent by not warning Jeff Tamraz of their products’ manganese toxicity....
Nurses Constant Exposure to Chemicals Linked to Diseases
The review, which is the first of its kind, included 1,500 nurses from all 50 states. It was conducted by four organizations Environmental Working Group,...
Minnesota Pork Plant Workers Afflicted With Mysterious Illness
The first signs of illnesses in workers at Quality Pork Processors surfaced in December 2006, and other workers developed symptoms over the following...
CDC Study: MRSA Infections Connected to Animal Agriculture
A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study reveals that the NT-MRSA, a strain of the affliction that first appeared in the Netherlands...
Construction Workers Suffer Skin Rashes in Katrina, Ritas Wake
Researchers headed by Rebecca Noe, M.P.H. from the CDC office in Atlanta, found that 22 percent of the diseases treated after the hurricanes were skin...
WHO Study Links Night Shift Work, Firefighting to Cancer
An international team of 24 scientists convened in Lyon, France, at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of WHO, to study...
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