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A 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,
Read moreOSHA has proposed a rule that would revise the circumstances in which the agency may conduct inspections of sites participating in its On-Site Consultation Program Safety and Health Achievement and Recognition Program ( SHARP). The proposed rule, published in the Sept. 3 Federal Register, affects employers in OSHA’s Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program, which
Read more“The Federal Railroad Safety Act expressly forbids railroad companies from disciplining employees for reporting injuries and illnesses, and for following a physician’s treatment plan,” said OSHA Acting Regional Administrator Dean Ikeda in Seattle. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered Union Pacific Railroad Co. in Eugene, Ore., to pay back
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