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Safety Solutions Monthly eNews for July 1, 2008

Welcome to Safety Solutions, the e-newsletter that provides you with ideas and information you can put to use in your workplace. Each month, Safety Solutions delivers articles focused on improving occupational safety and health programs, controlling costs and keeping employees safe and healthy at work and at home.

In This Issue:
  1. Are Experienced Employees Falling Behind?
  2. Danger Ahead! Cell Phones and Driving
  3. Good Works in the Workplace: Volunteerism Boosts Morale and Teamwork
  4. Off-the-Job Safety: Tips for Residents in Flood Areas
  5. Working Overtime Can Lead to Anxiety, Depression
  6. Foulke Tells Safety Professionals to Get Involved in Rulemaking Process

1. Are Experienced Employees Falling Behind?
Contrary to the recent focus on the lack of workforce readiness among first-time employees, human resources (HR) professionals report that most workplace skills are of greater importance today for experienced workers than for new entrants to the workforce. However, no more than half of their organizations' employees have participated in skills training - perhaps because they don't think it meets their needs.
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2. Danger Ahead! Cell Phones and Driving
You wouldn't allow an employee to drive while drunk. But what about making a cell phone call while driving?
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3. Good Works in the Workplace: Volunteerism Boosts Morale and Teamwork
As businesses strive to be good corporate citizens, many also support their employees' charitable activities. By balancing the needs of the employer and employees, volunteer work can build teamwork and improve morale and job performance.
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4. Off-the-Job Safety: Tips for Residents in Flood Areas
As residents in the Midwest begin their cleanup efforts following days of severe flooding, the Restoration Industry Association (RIA) offers health and safety tips for residents returning to their homes and businesses.
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5. Working Overtime Can Lead to Anxiety, Depression
A new study published in the June issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine suggests that employees who work overtime face an increased risk of anxiety and depression.
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6. Foulke Tells Safety Professionals to Get Involved in Rulemaking Process
During a question and answer session at Safety 2008, the annual professional development conference and exhibition of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) held this week in Las Vegas, OSHA Administrator Edwin Foulke discussed the complex, complicated process used to promulgate occupational safety and health regulations.
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