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On July 28, President Barack Obama announced he would
nominate epidemiologist David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, to become the
assistant secretary of labor for OSHA.
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In a February 2009 New York Committee for Occupational Safety
and Health (NYCOSH) publication, David Michaels stressed that the Obama
administration should work to change workplace safety culture instead of
primarily focusing on enforcement. As Obama’s choice to become the
next OSHA administrator, Michaels soon may be in the position to act on
some of his objectives.
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Annual medical expenditures attributable to obesity have
doubled in less than a decade and may be as high as $147 billion per
year, according to a new study by researchers at RTI International, the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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Director of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
(EU-OSHA) Jukka Takala warned that European organizations cannot afford
to forget workplace safety in the current economic
downturn.
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Many executives and business owners are realizing that
employee wellness programs that help workers lose weight or quit smoking
also create robust return-on-investments, according to two experts
schedules to speak at the upcoming Illinois Human Resources Conference
and Exposition.
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Emergency departments are places to receive treatment for
injuries, but for thousands of nurses, these departments are the sources
of injury. A new study by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) finds
that more than half of emergency nurses report experiencing physical
violence on the job, including as being spit on, hit, pushed or shoved,
scratched and kicked.
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OSHA recently published a Small Business Guide for Ethylene
Oxide to address ethylene oxide exposure levels and monitoring
requirements. The document is designed to help employers understand the
ethylene oxide (EtO) standard and explain how to monitor the air quality
in workplaces where EtO is processed, used or handled.
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The new Tuff sampling pump from Casella USA is certainly one Tuff
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MicroMAX® NS is the newest member of the protective clothing family
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Very economical and lightweight, MicroMAX® NS features high MVTR's
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