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Eliminating workplace injuries and illnesses relies on accurate recordkeeping and reporting, OSHA administrator David Michaels said recently, warning against some incentive programs that discourage such reporting. Programs rewarding employees for not reporting injuries or disciplining them for reporting injuries, as well as those that provide managers with bonuses for lowering injury rates, are “unacceptable,” Michaels
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has announced that nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses among private industry employers declined in 2009 to a rate of 3.6 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers, down from a total case rate of 3.9 in 2008. BLS also reported a decline in the total number of
Read moreA nine month investigation has identified hundreds of sick workers inside the Kansas City DOE Plant and at neighboring offices in the same building that house employees that are not covered by EEOICPA. One of the common messages we’ve heard from sick former workers or their survivors is that they are unaware of screening
Read moreWhat is the exposome? Success in mapping the human genome has fostered the complementary concept of the “exposome”. The exposome can be defined as the measure of all the exposures of an individual in a lifetime and how those exposures relate to disease. An individual’s exposure begins before birth and includes insults from environmental
Read moreThe National Transportation Safety Board on Aug. 10 sent a letter (.pdf file) to the Federal Aviation Administration recommending that babies younger than 2 be required to have their own seats on airplanes. The recommendation letter was sent in light of preliminary findings from an ongoing investigation into a March 2009 plane crash in Butte,
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