UK: 36 Million Work Days Lost to Workplace Injury and Illness
Health and Safety Statistics 2006/07 reveals that the average absence per employee was 1.5 days a year, which was a significant increase from the approximately...
Don't Leave Safety Out in the Cold
The autumn season is upon us now, marking the transition from the sweltering temperatures of summer to the wet, blustery and icy weather conditions of...
Minnesota Workplace Injury Rates Remain Low
The survey drew on the injury and illness records from approximately 5,150 employers collected by the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry and data...
Protecting Workers From MRSA Infection
Approximately 25 to 30 percent of the healthy population carries the staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria on skin or in nasal passages, while 1 percent...
Work Hours: No Spinning Zone?
Of respondents to the Steelcase Workplace Index Survey, 62 percent said not having an appropriate place to exercise at work was the primary reason they...
NSC: Stress and Sleep Deprivation in the Workplace
Rogerson presented his research at the National Safety Councils 2007 Congress and Expo in Chicago. In his study, titled Employee Perceptions of Health...
NSC: Special Safety Concerns for an Aging Workforce
Dr. Gregory Petty, professor of health and safety programs at the University of Tennessee, discussed the aging workforces special safety concerns at the...
Job Stress Doubles the Risk of Heart Trouble
Several studies have shown that job strain increases the risk of a first coronary heart disease event. However, little is known about the association...
Burned-Out Employees Less Likely to Receive Intervention at Work
Researchers led by Kirsi Ahola from the Finnish Institute for Occupational Health, Helsinki, analyzed data from a nationally representative sample of...
House Passes Diacetyl Bill
Workers exposed to the chemical and the labor organizations have been campaigning for the past year to get OSHA and Congress to take action in the matter....
OSHA Begins Rulemaking Process on Diacetyl
According to OSHA Administrator Edwin Foulke Jr., the rulemaking builds upon the National Emphasis Program OSHA announced in April, which addresses the...
Cash Can Spur Worker Weight Loss
The study, published in the September issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, examined the impact of monetary rewards on weight...
Health Promotion and Protection Important for Low-Wage, Immigrant Workers
This is why it is so important to incorporate innovative programs and projects for the non-traditional workforce, a population that has been traditionally...
Weaver Popcorn First to Eliminate Diacetyl From Products
Although diacetyl has long been considered safe for use in consumer food products, the flavoring has been cited as a possible source of injury to certain...
Survey: WTC Workers Have High Asthma Rates
The data, drawn from the World Trade Center Health Registry, show that 3.6 percent of the 25,000 rescue and recovery workers enrolled in the registry...
Graveyard Shift Workers Don't Have Increased Cancer Risk
Studies from 2001 to 2005 found that working late hours on a regular basis could increase the chance for women to develop breast and colon cancer and...
Ontario Government to Provide New Safety Equipment for Nurses and Health Care Workers
The Ontario government will purchase 55 million N95 respirators and has mandated the use of safety engineered needles or needle-less systems in the province's...
California Comp Rate Drop Alters National Figures
According to NASI, the drop in compensation payments by California employers probably were the result of recent reform bills passed in the state in 2003...
Cancerous Agents, Air Pollutants in Nanotube Byproducts
Study co-author Desire Plata and colleagues revealed the results of their research at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society, describing...
ASSE: If You Can't Take the Heat, Use Protection
Temperatures in many parts of the nation soared above the 100-degree mark in recent days, making conditions dangerous for outdoor workers. According to...
Tests Show Workplace Cocaine Use At Lowest Rate in 10 Years
According to the Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index: Cocaine Use Among America's Workers - A Special 2007 Mid-Year Report, there was a 15.9 percent...
New Act To Bolster Employee Health and Company Savings
On July 9, co-sponsors Senators Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., introduced the Healthy Workforce Act, which would provide a tax credit...
Fatal Firefighter Heart Attacks Preventable, Says NIOSH
In NIOSH's most recent alert, Preventing Fire Fighter Fatalities Due to Heart Attacks and Other Sudden Cardiovascular Events, personal factors (age, gender...
AIHA Weighs in on Attempts to Block OSHA Fit Testing for Respirators
A letter submitted on July 17 by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) urges House leaders to ignore attempts made to add a rider to the House FY 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill regarding OSHA's enforcement of respiratory protection requirements for tuberculosis...
Study: No Safe Level of Secondhand Smoke
When comparing the level of NNK a carcinogen implicated in the development of lung cancer in nonsmokers who work in restaurants that allow smoking with...
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