Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released a new public opinion survey yesterday which finds that Americans rank prevention as the most important health care reform priority, and overwhelmingly support increased funding for prevention programs to reduce disease and keep people healthy.
On June 12, 2009, all full-power broadcast TV stations in the United States will stop broadcasting on analog airwaves and begin broadcasting only in digital. According to a press release from Citizen Corps, a grassroots strategy from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), millions of Americans depend on TV as a source of information, including emergency alerts and warnings. Following the transition, the FCC estimates up to 20 million individuals could be left without TV communications because they haven’t taken the appropriate steps to transition.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced in a recent press release that it has launched its annual Preventive Roof/Rib Outreach Program (PROP) to highlight the potential hazards of roof falls and rib rolls.
Guideline-based care provided by occupational physicians is an effective and economical treatment approach for employees with common mental health problems, according to research reported in the March Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
June is National Safety Month. In recognition, here is a look at Bureau of Labor Statistics data on work-related fatalities and nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses, culled from a BLS press release.
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.
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.
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