Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Southeast Michigan kicks off its 23rd annual Tie One On for Safety (TOOFS) campaign with their life saving message to drive safe, sober and bucked up this holiday season at the kick-off event being held Friday, December 4, 2009.
“For nearly 40 years, OSHA has been the Federal government's leading advocate for workplace safety and health. In this time we have made clear progress - think back to what workplaces were like in this country before OSHA,” acting agency boss Jordan Barab told a cheering audience at the United Steelworkers’ Health, Safety and Environment Conference, held earlier this year in Houston, Texas.
OSHA “welcomes” the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) report on the under-reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses and OSHA's audit process, according to an agency press statement.
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, the Department of Labor is required to collect and compile work-related injury and illness data. The U.S. Government Accountability Office was asked to determine (1) whether DOL verifies that employers are accurately recording workers’ injuries and illnesses and, if so, the adequacy of these efforts, and (2) what factors may affect the accuracy of employers’ injury and illness records.
In the absence of a full Senate committee question and answer hearing, OSHA chief nominee Dr. David Michaels of George Washington University provided senators with written answers to submitted questions.
President Obama’s nominee to head OSHA, Dr. David Michaels, an epidemiologist and professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC, has moved a step closer to taking the reins at OSHA after his November 18th approval by the Senate Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
For the protection of frontline health care and emergency medical workers at high risk of infection, OSHA has issued a compliance directive (http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/Directive_pdf/CPL_02_02-075.pdf) to ensure uniform procedures when conducting inspections to identify and minimize or eliminate high to very high risk occupational exposures to the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus, according to an agency press release.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano was joined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Dr. Anne Schuchat and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Acting Administrator Gale Rossides to promote holiday travel tips and highlight the simple steps travelers can take to prevent the spread of the flu, according to a press release from the Department of Homeland Security.
Every holiday season, millions of Americans travel through the nation’s airports, seaports, and train stations to spend time with loved ones. Special holiday get-togethers — and traveling itself — bring people close together but also provide an ideal way for illness to spread. To help travelers avoid the flu this holiday season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today launched its largest ever public awareness campaign about staying healthy while traveling, according to a CDC press release.
Only about 1 in 4 Americans aged 50–64 regularly take advantage of preventive services such as screenings and immunizations, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with AARP and the American Medical Association (AMA), says a CDC press release.
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