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Safety Solutions Monthly eNews for December 2009

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. Top 10 Tips for Staying Healthy During the Holidays
  2. Workplace Violence Takes a Deadly Toll
  3. Managing the Web 2.0: Social Networking Policies
  4. America's Safest Companies Go Beyond Zero
  5. GHS: What You Need to Know

1. Top 10 Tips for Staying Healthy During the Holidays
The holidays are here, which means family, friends, parties - and germs. This year, in light of the H1N1 outbreak, many fear that the most wonderful time of the year will end up being the unhealthiest, too.
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2. Workplace Violence Takes a Deadly Toll
The violence that recently has hit our nation's workplaces has brought an important issue to the forefront: workplace safety. In hindsight on both the Fort Hood and Orlando shootings, it's easy to say that preventative measures could have been set into motion to avoid these tragedies.
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3. Managing the Web 2.0: Social Networking Policies
As more people turn to social networking sites and blogs to obtain information, stay connected and voice their opinions, businesses face a new set of questions and dilemmas raised by their employees' use of such media.
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4. America's Safest Companies Go Beyond Zero
AMEC Earth & Environmental Inc., the Concrete Pipe Division of CEMEX, Medtronic Inc., Morin Actuator, RQ Construction Inc., Trendmaker Homes, Trihydro Corp. and Wood Group Power Plant Services have earned the right to call themselves America's Safest Companies.
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5. GHS: What You Need to Know
On Sept. 30, acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Jordan Barab announced a proposed rule to align OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard (hazcom standard) with provisions of the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS).
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