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Occupational Safety

Older drivers at work

Older workers (those ages 55 and older) bring extensive skills, knowledge, and experience built over the course of a lifespan. However, age-related physical and mental changes may affect older workers’ …
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Occupational Safety

Cosmic radiation endangers aircraft crews

Rude passengers and sleep deprivation from irregular hours aren’t the only work-related hazards that crew members of airplanes have to deal with. They – along with passengers - are exposed …
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Training/Incentives

OSHA recommends contract to protect temp workers

While the extent of responsibility under the law of staffing agencies and host employers is dependent on the specific facts of each case, staffing agencies and host employers are jointly …
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Health

Does air pollution make teens eat fattening foods?

Could air pollution be making us fat? A new USC study suggests that exposure to traffic pollution during childhood makes adolescents 34 percent more likely to eat foods high in …
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PPE

Falls, structure collapses continue to claim lives in comm tower industry

The growing demand for wireless and broadcast communications over the past three decades has spurred a dramatic increase in communication tower construction and maintenance – one that exposes workers to …
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Environmental Health and Safety

Gas-burning fryers source of carbon monoxide leak at industrial kitchen

An uncommon source of carbon monoxide poisoning—industrial gas-burning fryers—caused carbon monoxide poisoning among a large group of workers at an industrial kitchen, according to an investigation published in the CDC’s …
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Risk Management

Networked high-tech sensors to the rescue

Lee Sadd
Despite all our best efforts   and often those of the employees we train and advise - people have a problem with safety. It can be a hard topic to bring …

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