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Puerto Rico manufacturer improves workplace safety, stays OSHA SHARP

December 27, 2019

A small mattress manufacturing operation in Puerto Rico has succeeded in updating and improving work practices, improving machine guarding, increasing employee participation in safety and health activities, and improving the safety and health management system already in place at the site with help from Puerto Rico Consultation Services, which performs local assessments and consults as part of federal OSHA’s On-Site Consultation Program.

The Twelve Days of Workplace Safety

December 25, 2019

On the first day of work my employer gave to me training in using PPE On the second day of work my employer gave to me nitrile rubber gloves and training in using PPE

Large study links sustained weight loss to reduced breast cancer risk

Even a modest amount of sustained weight loss is associated with lower breast cancer risk for women over 50

December 24, 2019

A large new study finds that women who lost weight after age 50 and kept it off had a lower risk of breast cancer than women whose weight remained stable, helping answer a vexing question in cancer prevention. The reduction in risk increased with the amount of weight lost and was specific to women not using postmenopausal hormones.

EPA orders online marketplace to stop selling illegal pesticides

Illegal, mislabeled products pose danger to kids, pets, the elderly

December 24, 2019

Have a cockroach problem? Before you order pesticides online, consider this: the EPA has issued a “Stop Sale” order to online marketplace Bonanza.com requiring the company to immediately halt sales of a dozen imported pesticide products not legal -- or safe -- for sale in the United States. Among the unregistered, illegal pesticides targeted by the order is “Miraculous Insecticide Chalk" -dangerous because of its documented history of causing illness in children who mistake the chalk for regular sidewalk or black board chalk.

Where did all that tobacco settlement money go?

Hint: Not to anti-smoking programs

December 24, 2019

In 1998, an historic landmark legal settlement between 46 states and the major tobacco companies, – along with individual settlements with four other states – required the companies to pay more than $246 billion over time as compensation for tobacco-related health care costs.

National COSH calls 10-year spike in workplace deaths “preventable and unacceptable”

December 23, 2019

A ten-year spike in workplace deaths is unacceptable and calls for urgent action, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) said today. “As we prepare to gather with our families this holiday season, everyone who is committed to workplace safety will be thinking about the 5,250 U.S. workers who will never see their loved ones again,” said Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, co-executive director of National COSH.

Nine health threats that made headlines in 2019: A CDC review

December 23, 2019

From an outbreak of mysterious lung-injury deaths to America’s near loss of measles elimination status, the beginning of the end of the U.S. HIV epidemic to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), CDC worked around the clock – and around the globe – to protect Americans from domestic and global health threats in 2019.

Top products of the week

December 22, 2019

Machine guarding solutions, a chemical tank cover and work boots for women in the trades were the top occupational safety and health products featured this week on ISHN.com.