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| Weighing down safety | | Obese and severely obese workers tend to have more frequent and costlier injuries than normal-weight workers, but part of the responsibility rests on U.S. workplaces. S+H explores simple, inexpensive workplace changes companies can make to encourage workers to maintain a healthier weight. | | 01 April 2013 | | Read More |
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| OMB silica review: Two years; too long | | In the two years the White House has spent reviewing a proposal to strengthen OSHA’s Crystalline Silica Standard, the agency estimates that 600 people have died from silicosis – a disease caused by silica exposure. | | 14 February 2013 | | Read More |
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| Watch your step | | Work-related falls can result in severe injuries and death. According to the National Safety Council, falls to a lower level were the second leading cause of workplace fatalities in 2009, behind highway crashes. | | 01 February 2013 | | Read More |
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| Gender differences | | Several studies suggest that shift work and job stress may negatively impact women’s health. Although the risks aren’t yet fully understood, reducing stress and increasing workplace autonomy for women may help. | | 01 January 2013 | | Read More |
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| 'The untold story' | | Ten times as many workers die every year as a result of diseases likely attributable to their occupation compared to injuries, but occupational illnesses do not recieve the same attention as occupational injuries. | | 01 August 2012 | | Read More |
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| NIOSH program proposes covering 9/11 cancers | | Eleven months ago, I called it a tragedy that NIOSH’s World Trade Center Health Program was not covering 9/11 first responders’ cancers. Now I’m glad to report things may be changing. | | 28 June 2012 | | Read More |
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| Employee wellness | | Poor eating habits and lack of physical activity are the major contributing factors to being overweight or obese in the United States, according to the World Health Organization. If people made the choices to eat better, engage in more physical activity and quit smoking, at least 80 percent of all heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes – and up to 40 percent of cancer – could be prevented, WHO says. | | 01 June 2012 | | Read More |
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| Getting well | | In an effort to combat rising health care costs, employers are increasingly turning to wellness programs to target the factors most commonly associated with costly workers' compensation and medical claims. | | 01 April 2012 | | Read More |
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| Easing the burden | | Post-traumatic stress disorder can affect any worker. How can an employer help? | | 01 December 2011 | | Read More |
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| Washington Update: Same plan, same regulatory hurdles | | OSHA’s latest regulatory agenda, released July 7, offers many of the same promises agency officials have issued before. Several rules being pursued seem to be more or less on track, including final rules for confined spaces in construction (scheduled for publication in November), two whistleblower protection revisions (November) and a cooperative agreements revision (September). | | 01 September 2011 | | Read More |
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| Ensure safety with hazardous materials | | Working with chemicals and solvents in the workplace can expose workers to a host of health hazards. Being properly trained in how to handle these hazardous materials is vital. | | 01 September 2011 | | Read More |
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| The measure of success | | Fatality, injury and illness rates have steadily declined for the past several years. OSHA administrator David Michaels – like his predecessors – has claimed at least some credit for this decline, attributing it to actions his agency has taken. | | 01 August 2011 | | Read More |
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| Use and abuse | Recent reports show prescription drug abuse has reached the level of a public health crisis – and 12.9 million working-age drug users are employed. What can safety professionals do to maintain a drug-free workplace without infringing on a worker’s right to privacy?
| | 01 August 2011 | | Read More |
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| Harmful exposure? | | Reports from the Centers for disease control and prevention showing an increase in infertility among couples in the United States, together with reports of workplace hazards affecting reproduction, have spurred increased concern among some researchers regarding the effect chemical exposures have on reproductive efforts. | | 01 August 2011 | | Read More |
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| 9/11 first responders’ cancer not covered is a tragedy | News last week that cancer of first responders at ground zero would not be added to a list of ailments treated by the World Trade Center Health Program surely comes as a blow to those heroic rescue workers.
| | 01 August 2011 | | Read More |
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