At-Home Safety: Preventing Head Injuries
In honor of March’s designation as National Brain Injury Awareness Month, Dr. Todd Trask, a neurosurgeon at the Methodist Neurological Institute, offers tips on how to protect the head and prevent injuries...
The Hazards of Daylight Saving Time
Many Americans will lose an hour of sleep on March 14, the first day of daylight saving time, when clocks are set ahead one hour at 2 a.m. local standard time – making it harder to wake up, causing difficulty in staying alert and increasing the chance of car crashes...
NIOSH Offers Health Screenings for Surface Coal Miners
Beginning in late March, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) will offer a series of free, confidential health screenings to surface coal miners throughout the United States. The screenings are intended to provide early detection of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP), also known as black lung, a serious but preventable occupational lung disease in coal miners caused by breathing respirable coal mine dust...
Flip-Flops vs. Gray Hair: Managing Generation Clashes in the Workplace
In one corner of the office we have an experienced, competitive baby boomer. In the other, a confident, multi-tasking Generation Y employee who expects to shoot to the top and then move on – all while wearing flip-flops. When they meet, expect fireworks...
OSHA Listens: Panel Discusses OSHA Enforcement, Outreach
As part of its March 4 “OSHA Listens” public meeting, OSHA Administrator David Michaels and other agency personnel met with stakeholders from a wide range of groups to discuss key issues facing the agency...
OSHA: Stay Safe While Shoveling Snow
While spring might be just around the corner, it’s still early to put away the snow shovel and sidewalk salt. A recent spate of snowstorms in the northeastern United States prompted OSHA to remind workers, employers and the general public of the hazards associated with snow removal and recovery work...
Coalition Seeks Workplace Safety Protections for Florida Public Sector Workers
On March 1, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and its Florida members relaunched efforts seeking occupational safety and health protections for Florida’s public sector workers...
Prevent Blindness America Launches Vision Benefits Initiative
Prevent Blindness America has launched Sight Saved, a Web-based initiative designed to educate employers about the importance of providing vision benefits to their employees and to encourage workers to schedule regular, comprehensive exams and wear proper eyewear to enhance and protect their vision...
Managing Workers’ Comp: Obesity's Link to Diabetes in the Workplace
Obesity puts a heavy burden on employers as well as employees...
Heart Disease and Women: Heart Healthy Tips
Coronary heart disease, which causes heart attack, is the single leading cause of death for American women. ChicagoHealers.com’s Dr. Martha Howard, M.D., Dipl. Ac. NCCAOM, offers the following warning signs and ways to prevent heart attacks in women...
ASSE, OSHA to Examine Work Safety Systems During NAOSH Week
Thousands of people and businesses worldwide will join the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE) and OSHA’s Alliance Program participants in raising awareness of the importance of being safe at work during the annual North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week this May 2-8 and Occupational Safety and Health Professional (OSHP) Day on May 5...
Workplace Gender Inequality Still Alive Worldwide
Despite big changes over recent decades, workplace gender inequalities endure in the United States and other industrialized nations around the world. According to University of Washington sociologists, these inequalities are created by facets of national social policy that either ease or concentrate the demands of care giving within households and shape expectations in the workplace...
NIOSH Invites Public Comment on Revised Asbestos Draft Document
A newly revised version of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) draft Current Intelligence Bulletin, “Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongate Mineral Particles: State of the Science and Roadmap for Research,” is available for public review and comment...
Study Highlights Need for Substance Abuse Treatment Among Workers Without Health Insurance
An estimated 3 million full-time workers in America without health insurance needed substance use treatment in the past year, according to a national survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)...
More Flexibility at Work Boosts Employee Health
A new evidence review suggests that giving employees more flexibility in their work schedules is likely to boost their health through reduced blood pressure and stress. But interventions that are motivated or dictated by the needs of the employer, such as cutting hours, either have no effect on employee health or make it worse...
Study: Australian Workers Still at Risk of Asbestos Exposure
On Feb. 15, Safe Work Australia released the results of a study aimed to determine construction and maintenance workers’ current attitudes, awareness, compliance and exposure levels to asbestos in their workplaces...
Love in the Workplace
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, which means love is in the air – and maybe even in the workplace. According to one Ryerson University professor, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. A recent study shows most colleagues aren’t bothered by office romances as long as they don’t negatively affect the workplace...
Exposure to World Trade Center Dust, Fumes May Lead to Headaches Years Later
Workers and residents exposed to dust and fumes caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center on Sept.11, 2001, frequently reported headache years later, according to new research...
NIOSH Releases Spanish-Language Construction Ergonomics Guide
NIOSH recently released a Spanish-language guide to help employers and workers effectively prevent job-related musculoskeletal injuries in the construction industry...
Top Three Myths about Workplace Injuries
How many times have you heard people saying something completely ridiculous or that you know just isn’t right? You don’t have to go very far these days to encounter such statements...
Study: Workers’ Comp Patients Get Less Benefit from Back Surgery
According to a new study, surgery provides better results than non-surgical treatment for most patients with back pain related to a herniated disk – but not for those receiving workers’ compensation for work-related injuries...
OSHA Releases Workplace Injury and Illness Information
For the first time, OSHA has made the work-related injury and illness data collected from more than 80,000 employers from 1996 to 2007 available in a searchable online database, allowing the public to look at establishment or industry-specific injury and illness data...
At-Home Safety: Protecting Eyes from the Sun with Contact Lenses
A new study reported in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science found that UV-blocking contact lenses may reduce or eliminate the effects of the sun’s harmful UV radiation...
Depressed Workers Have Decreased Productivity Despite Treatment Efforts
Employees with depression have higher costs related to short-term disability and absenteeism – even after receiving antidepressant therapy, reports a study in the February Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine...
New Report Address Work-Life Conflict Across Income Levels
On Jan. 25, the Center for American Progress and the Center for WorkLife Law at the UC Hastings College of the Law released a new report that analyzes the struggle millions of American families face in attempting to balance work and life responsibilities...
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