Hearing Loss in U.S. Adolescents More Prevalent
Hearing loss now affects nearly 20 percent of U.S. adolescents age 12-19, a rise of 5 percent over the last 15 years, according to a new Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study....
Protecting Your Back, Neck and Arms from “Laptop-itis”
The symptoms are familiar to any employee working on the go or any student who has ever spent hours pounding out a paper on a laptop computer: an aching neck, throbbing head and tingling fingers....
Fatal Injuries Declined 17 Percent in 2009
Preliminary results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries released Aug. 19 show a decline in workplace fatalities in 2009 of 17 percent, compared with 2008. Transportation injuries, still the number one workplace killer, dropped 21 percent...
OSHA Warns Gulf Coast Employers Against Withholding HAZWOPER Certificates
OSHA has received numerous complaints from workers taking part in the Gulf Coast oil spill cleanup whose employers are refusing to provide them with a certificate following their completion of training under the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, or HAZWOPER, standard...
OSHA Proposes Another $374,500 in Fines Against Cooperative Plus
OSHA recently proposed penalties of $374,500 against Cooperative Plus Inc., a farmer-owned cooperative, for federal workplace safety violations at its Whitewater and Genoa City, Wis., sites. This action follows the $721,000 in penalties issued Aug. 4 after a worker was seriously injured from being engulfed by soybeans at the cooperative’s Burlington, Wis., facility in February...
OSHA Cites Moscow, Pa., Roofing Contractor for Endangering Workers
OSHA has cited Eastern Roofing Systems Inc. of Moscow for fall hazards at a residential roof repairing operation in Scranton, Pa, with roposed penalties totaling $53,200...
CDC: Two-Thirds of Emergency Visits Occur During Non-Business Hours
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) once again debunks the myth that emergency departments are crowded with non-urgent patients, a finding noted by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)...
Workers Are Risking Injury By Not Wearing Safety Equipment
A new survey of safety professionals has found a high incidence of employee noncompliance with corporate and federal mandates to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)...
New Study Reinforces Importance of ‘People Behind the Product’
Companies that invest in people development activities to drive customer service, including sales training and employee recognition and rewards, may perform better than firms focusing solely on brand development, marketing and advertising, suggests a new study published by the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement...
Red Cross: Web Users Increasingly Rely on Social Media to Seek Help in a Disaster
A new American Red Cross survey shows many Web users would turn to social media to seek help for themselves or others during emergencies – and they expect first responders to be listening...
Study: Magnet Hospitals Don’t Have Better Working Conditions for Nurses
Magnet hospitals, while widely recognized for better patient safety and outcomes, don’t provide better working conditions for nurses than non-magnet hospitals, according to a new study by the University of Maryland School of Nursing...
EPA Proposes Improvements to Chemical Reporting
As part of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to strengthen and reform chemical management, EPA is proposing several actions to improve reporting on chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)...
How Many $100 Bananas Does your Organization Have?
A hospital patient asks for a banana. The nurse calls the dietary manager, who says, “not without a doctor’s order.” After talking to two nearby managers who commiserate with her, the nurse mentions it to a senior VP, who was passing through the unit. The senior VP intervenes and the patient, unhappy about the long wait, finally receives the banana...
OSHA Cites Florida Excavating Company for Endangering Workers
OSHA has cited Jimmie Crowder Excavating and Land Clearing Inc. of Tallahassee, Fla., with one willful and two serious safety violations that occurred in June at a Tallahassee worksite. Proposed penalties total $42,000...
BP Agrees To Pay Full Penalty of $50.6 Million For Citations Stemming from 2005 Texas City Refinery Explosion
OSHA on Aug. 12 announced that BP Products North America Inc. will pay the full penalty of $50.6 million stemming from the 2005 explosion at its Texas City, Texas, refinery that killed 15 workers and injured 170 others. The agreement resolves failure-to-abate citations issued in October 2009 after a follow-up investigation. In addition to paying the record fine, BP has agreed to take immediate steps to protect those now working at the refinery, allocating a minimum of $500 million to that effort...
JetBlue Flight Attendant Incident Puts the Spotlight On Workplace Stress
We all can identify with frustration in the workplace. Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater touched a nerve with thousands of workers when he imploded on the job, making a now-famous exit down the plane's emergency slide with a beer in hand after dealing with an unruly passenger...
NFL Running Back joins MSHA’s Stay Out – Stay Alive Campaign
MSHA recently announced that Kansas City Chiefs’ running back Thomas Jones has become a spokesman for the agency’s annual Stay Out – Stay Alive public safety campaign, which was launched in 1999 to warn outdoor enthusiasts, especially children, about the dangers of playing on mine property. Each year, dozens of people are injured or killed in recreational accidents at active and abandoned mine sites...
EU OSHA: Workplace Health Promotion Improves Productivity, Well-Being
As part of its Workplace Health Promotion project, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is sending the following message to employers: workplace health promotion (WHP) leads to better health, reduced absenteeism, enhanced motivation and improved productivity...
Britain’s HSE Warns that Construction Sites Aren’t Child’s Play
The U.K. Health and Safety Executive (HSE) sent a message to parents that building sites are not playgrounds. As school holidays are well underway in Britain, HSE encourages parents to warn their children of the dangers of playing on construction sites...
CDC: More U.S. Adults Report Being Obese
The number of states with an obesity prevalence of 30 percent or more has tripled in 2 years to reach nine states in 2009, according to a CDC Vital Signs report. The report also found that no state met the nation’s Healthy People 2010 goal to lower obesity prevalence to 15 percent...
Researchers Identify Incentives, Barriers to Best Practices in Ergonomics for Masonry Contractors
Researchers working with industry stakeholders found that while products, equipment and work practices already are in use by masonry contractors to reduce the rate of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among masonry workers, the decentralized nature of the industry and prevalence of small contractors has led to regional differences in their use and barriers to widespread adoption...
Developing a Workplace Team Where Everyone’s a Leader
As leaders struggle with growing pressures in today’s fast-paced workplace, the way leadership responsibilities are distributed within organizations is changing. According to a Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) leader, shared team leadership is the new approach in encouraging team members to reach their full potential...
CSB to Investigate Fatal Horsehead Holding Co. Explosion
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) announced Aug. 3 that it will conduct a full investigation into the July 22 explosion and fire that killed two workers at the Horsehead Holding Co. zinc recycling facility located in Monaca, Pa...
Falls the Leading Cause of Injury Among Older Adults in China
Falls are the most common injury for both urban and rural elderly in China, responsible for more than two-thirds of all injuries in people 65 and older, according to a new study by researchers from China and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy...
OSHA Proposes Hundreds of Citations, $16.6 Million in Fines for Kleen Energy Explosion
OSHA on August 5 cited three construction companies and 14 site contractors for 371 alleged workplace safety violations and proposed $16.6 million dollars in penalties following an investigation into the causes of February’s deadly natural gas explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems LLC power plant construction site in Middletown, Conn., that took the lives of six workers and injured 50 others...
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