Trust for America's Health (TFAH), the Center for Biosecurity, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) have issued a new analysis, Pandemic Flu: Lessons From the Frontlines, which found that the initial response to the H1N1 outbreak showed strong coordination and communication and an ability to adapt to changing circumstances from U.S. officials, but it also showed how quickly the nation's core public health capacity would be overwhelmed if an outbreak were more severe or widespread, according to a TFAH press release.
Many elements of corporate executive pay programs believed to cause excessive risk taking actually encourage executives to reduce risk, according to experts at Watson Wyatt, a leading global consulting firm. This discovery comes as more pressure is being brought to bear on companies to examine the impact of their pay programs on corporate risk taking, according to a Watson Wyatt press release.
This discussion provides checklist aimed at assisting readers in understanding some of the significant requirements included in the ANSI Z358.1 standard.
A new report released by the not-for-profit Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute and Trucost, a global provider of environmental data and analysis, indicates that the financial risk to companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index would vary greatly under a cap-and-trade program requiring the purchase of carbon emission credits, according to a recent press release.
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) recently released comments on HR 2067, “Protecting America’s Workers Act,” a bill amending the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act of 1970, according to an agency press release.
In an address to the New Jersey Motorcoach
Association today, NTSB Acting Chairman Mark V. Rosenker
called on the motorcoach industry to voluntarily move toward
fleets equipped with lap/shoulder belts, according to a recent NTSB press release.
With summer and the high costs of cooling right around the corner, EPA is offering advice to help Americans reduce both energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions by one-third through Energy Star.
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