Managing Health: Is Ergonomics a Flawed Science?
Even for someone who is ambivalent about the adoption of an ergonomics standard, calling ergonomics “flawed science” is fightin’ words...
Managing Workers' Comp: Workplace Violence Can Put Your Company at Risk
Having a plan in place to help recognize the signs of workplace violence and deal with the aftermath can save lives and money...
How Heat Stress Affects Performance
Even a 2 percent dehydration level caused by heat stress can dramatically reduce a worker's reaction times and ability to focus...
Why We Need to Hang Up On Our Distracted Driving Addiction
Whether your fingers are safely on the wheel or tapping out a text message, you put yourself and others at risk when you use a cell phone while driving...
AIHce 2010: Mock Clandestine Drug Lab Highlights Risks to First Responders
A mock drug lab at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce) in Denver revealed the hazards that clandestine meth labs and marijuana grow operations pose to the public and to first responders...
AIHce 2010: Navigating Ergonomics Management Systems
In a roundtable presentation at AIHce 2010 in Denver, several EHS professionals outlined their challenges, successes, best practices and lessons learned in establishing and sustaining ergonomics management systems...
AIHce 2010: The Future of Work and the Aging Work Force
In the May 24 Jeffrey S. Lee Lecture at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce) in Denver, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Director John Howard addressed the changing patterns in employment brought on by an aging work force and how those changes might challenge occupational health and safety...
AIHce 2010: Investing in Our Future with Clean Energy
Inside a packed theater in the Colorado Convention Center, the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce) kicked off in Denver on May 24 with an opening session that featured Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who stressed that investing in clean energy is the key to protecting our communities and our future...
Expert: Millions Are Losing Their Hearing Unnecessarily
May is Better Hearing Month, but millions of Americans continue to needlessly risk losing their hearing each day, warns audiologist Dr. Cindy Beyer...
OSHA Proposes Penalties Against Chicago Contractor for Exposing Workers to Lead
OSHA cited ERA Valdivia Contractors Inc., an industrial painting and sandblasting company in Chicago, with $130,300 in proposed penalties for exposing workers to dangerous lead materials...
OSHA Reviews the Methylene Chloride Standard
Following a recent review of its Methylene Chloride standard, OSHA indicated that the standard “is succeeding in protecting workers from the effects of methylene chloride exposure such as respiratory and central nervous system failure and cancer.”...
Ergonomic Gardening Tools
If you have ever twisted and stretched while kneeling in the flowerbed, then you know that gardening can be physically challenging. Fortunately, ergonomic tools can help gardening enthusiasts avoid aches and pains, explains an expert from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia...
ER Doctors Stress Importance of Helmets to Save Lives, Prevent Brain Injury
Emergency physicians, who see firsthand the tragic consequences when people don’t wear helmets during outdoor activities such as riding bicycles and motorcycles, are reminding the public that helmets save lives and reduce the risk of traumatic brain injury...
Study: Declining Social Security Benefits Keep Older Men in Work Force
The decline in Social Security benefit amounts for workers who recently reached their 60s has been the leading cause of the trend toward delayed retirement of older men, a new national study suggests...
EPA Announces Plans to Regulate Coal Ash
On May 4, EPA announced it is proposing national rules to ensure the safe disposal and management of coal ash from coal-fired power plants...
May 2-8 is NAOSH Week
This year’s annual North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week, “Mission NAOSH 2010: Safe Workplaces,” takes place May 2-8 to raise awareness about occupational safety, health and the environment. NAOSH Week kicked off with events May 2 and 3 in Washington, D.C., and Canada...
Nurse Certification Linked to Job Satisfaction
Nurses certified in critical care indicate greater satisfaction with their jobs and careers and report higher perceptions of empowerment than their non-certified peers, reports the first national study to examine these issues in tandem...
MMWR: Younger Workers Experience Higher Injury Rates
From 1998-2007, younger workers experienced approximately twice as many nonfatal occupational injuries as older workers, and employers must make changes in workplace environments and practices to protect this population, according to the April 23 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report...
OSHA Releases Workplace Toxic Chemical Exposure Data and Latino Worker Memo
On April 28, OSHA announced it is releasing 15 years of data providing details of workplace exposure to toxic chemicals. This data will offer insight into the levels of toxic chemicals commonly found in workplaces, as well as how chemical exposure levels to specific chemicals are distributed across industries, geographical areas and time...
Workers’ Memorial Day: OSHA’s Michaels Testifies Before the Senate
On the eve of Workers’ Memorial Day, OSHA Administrator David Michaels testified at a Senate hearing, where he stressed that the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act must be updated in order to better protect American workers from injuries and death...
Workers’ Memorial Day: April was Deadly Month for the American Worker
This year’s Workers’ Memorial Day, held April 28 to honor men and women who suffered job-related injury and death, comes on the heels of three high-profile, fatal workplace accidents. The April 2 Tesoro refinery explosion in Anacortes, Wash., led to seven fatalities; the April 5 Upper Big Branch Mine explosion in West Virginia killed 29 miners in the deadliest mining accident in recent history; and an April 20 explosion at an oil drilling platform has left 11 workers missing and presumed dead...
Workers’ Memorial Day: National Workers Memorial Unveiled
After a year of construction, the new National Workers Memorial in Silver Spring, Md., will be unveiled on April 28, Workers’ Memorial Day. In addition to remembering the more than 5,000 U.S. workers who die on the job each year, this ceremony will pay special tribute to victims of the mining tragedy in Montcoal, W.Va., and the Tesoro refinery explosion in Anacortes, Wash...
OSHA Agenda Includes Injury and Illness Prevention Program
In addition to familiar topics such as cranes and derricks, diacetyl, beryllium and crystalline silica, OSHA’s spring 2010 regulatory agenda contains some new, high-priority items – an Injury and Illness Prevention Program standard and a move to modernize the agency’s injury and illness reporting systems...
NIOSH, USFA Initiate Firefighter Cancer Study
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the United States Fire Administration (USFA) are partnering on a study to examine the potential for increased risk of cancer among firefighters due to exposures from smoke, soot and other contaminants in the line of duty...
Shift Work Linked to Sleep Problems in Younger Workers
In the latest study linking health or wellness complications to shift work, researchers reveal that working the night shift interferes with sleep, particularly for workers in their 30s and 40s...
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