OSHA to Hold Meetings, Solicit Comments on Infectious Disease Exposure
OSHA will hold two stakeholder meetings in Washington, D.C., on July 29 to receive comments on occupational exposure to infectious diseases and consider a possible future rulemaking to protect employees from on-the-job disease exposure...
Managing Health: Don’t Call It a Comeback!
Author James Mallon is a professional ergonomist, not an economist, but he’s taken a very keen interest in the economy and its indicators over the last 5 years...
The Break Room: Planting Safety Awareness at Home
The long, sunny days of summer are an open invitation for gardening, yard work, sports and other outdoor activities – all of which can also equal increased ergonomic risks...
Summertime Blues
In the summer, powered lawn equipment, insect stings, over-eager barbecue aficionados and alcohol make off-the-job safety a challenge...
Managing Workers' Comp: Taking the Stress Out of Heat
Even though resources are plentiful and the cost of prevention is minimal, every year, thousands of workers become sick from exposure to heat and some die...
Study Finds Multidisciplinary Interventions No More Effective than Brief Ones for Employees with Low Back Pain
Employees suffering from low back pain (LBP) who were treated by a team of experts and assigned a case manager who collaborated on a comprehensive rehabilitation plan with the experts and patient did not show better results than employees who received a brief intervention consisting of a clinical examination and advice offered by a rehabilitation physician and a physiotherapist, according to a group of researchers from Denmark...
Short Exercises Can Make Office Work Less of a Pain in the Neck
Office workers who experience neck and shoulder pain may suffer from reduced productivity, higher health care costs and long-term absences from work. Researchers from Denmark suggest that encouraging short periods of exercise for office workers can help reduce neck and shoulder pain...
Safety 2011: It’s the ‘Real World’ for NIOSH Researchers
NIOSH scientists will be getting out of their labs and out into the field to help them understand the workplace challenges they’re researching, NIOSH Director Dr. John Howard told an audience at Safety 2011 in Chicago...
The Director of International Labour Organization Says Workers Are Being “Squeezed,” Calls for Social Justice
Director-General Juan Somavia called on employers and governments to commit to a new era of social justice in his opening remarks at the 100th International Labour Conference in Geneva...
OSHA Establishes New NEP for Primary Metal Industries
OSHA is establishing a new National Emphasis Program (NEP) for the primary metals industries to better protect workers from hazardous exposures in workplaces that produce metal products...
Off-the-Job Safety: Children and Lawnmowers Can Be a Dangerous Mix
Time and again, Dr. Edwin Harris, a Loyola University Health System pediatric podiatrist, has treated children who have lost toes or the front parts of their feet in lawn mower accidents...
Managing Service Quality in Ergonomics Programs: A Path to Improved Outcomes
The service quality of ergonomics programs – and other employee-focused occupational health programs – has an equivalent impact on the prevention of employee injuries...
Safety – A View from the Top
An employee’s amputation alerted this CEO to the fact that his company had some serious safety challenges...
Lead, Carbon Black, Cell Phones: Things that Increase Cancer Risk?
The World Health Organization (WHO)/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, such as those created by cell phones, as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer, associated with wireless phone use...
Working Near Fields Sprayed with Certain Pesticides Could Increase Parkinson’s Risks
While studying a variety of workers – from teachers, firefighters, clerks and other non-agricultural employees – who worked near, but not in, fields sprayed with specific types of pesticides, UCLA researchers discovered a threefold increase in the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease...
At-Home Safety: Stay Out of the Sun on “Don’t Fry Day” May 27
On Friday, May 27, help battle skin cancer by celebrating “Don’t Fry Day.”...
Michaels on Gulf Cleanup Workers: We Were Trying Not to Kill Them
The greatest threat facing the Gulf Coast clean up workers following the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil leak wasn’t the murky, oily water or various safety hazards, says OSHA Administrator Dr. David Michaels. It was the summer weather found in the Gulf of Mexico...
OSHA Seeks Input from Employers through Anonymous, Voluntary Survey
OSHA announced it will survey thousands of employers this summer in efforts to improve its future rules, compliance assistance and outreach efforts...
Does Your Workplace Snack Culture Jeopardize Your Waistline?
It might look innocent at first glance, but that vending machine in the employee break room might wreak havoc on workers’ eating habits and waistlines – not to mention productivity...
OSHA Reopens the Door on Proposed MSD Column Addition on the 300 Log
In the May 17 Federal Register, OSHA published a notice that it would reopen the public record on the proposal to revise recordkeeping requirements by adding a work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) column on the OSHA 300 log...
AIHce: The Power (and Pitfalls) of Fear Surrounding Nuclear Incidents
On May 16, a radiation expert told attendees at the 2011 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce) that fears surrounding radiation, especially in light of Japan’s recent crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, largely are blown out of proportion and can do more harm than good...
AIHce: What You Don’t Know Can Kill You!
There is one poisoning every 14 seconds in the United States. The largest percentage of these poisonings are from cleaning products, says Tony Uliano, and independent EHS consultant and adjunct professor at Portland State University School of Public Health in Portland, Ore. Uliano shared a brief overview of consumer product toxicology at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo in Portland on May 16...
Everyday Heroes: May 15-21 is National EMS Week
“Everyday Heroes” is the theme of the 38th annual Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week, which runs May 15-21 this year to recognize and pay tribute to EMS workers across the nation...
Court Affirms OSHA’s Authority to Subpoena Workers’ Comp Co.
OSHA’s subpoena requesting inspection and report documents from Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. associated with a fatal grain engulfment has been upheld in a U.S. district court...
Like Your Coworkers? You Might Live Longer.
Getting along with your fellow coworkers might not only be good for your career and job satisfaction levels – new research indicates it could also help you live longer...
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