With the help of the first smart phone app developed by OSHA, employers and workers can determine the risk of heat-related problems to outdoor workers at any worksite at any time.
OSHA has launched a new Safety and Health Topics page to help prevent work-related hearing loss – one of the most prevalent occupational health concerns in the United States for more than 25 years.
Here’s another example of people willingly taking risks they know to be potentially harmful: Two in three U.S. smokers now agree that smoking is "very harmful" to adults who smoke, tying the most who have ever said so, but still trailing the more than 8 in 10 Americans and nonsmokers who say the same.
Employees who are in engaged in their work and workplace are twice as likely to report their organization is hiring new workers as those who are actively disengaged, according to a new Gallup poll.
Only a small proportion of companies assess cultural issues as part of their integration plans for mergers and acquisitions (M&As), according to feedback at Mercer’s M&A Ready™ workshops attended by senior Human Resource (HR) leaders globally.
Norfolk Southern Railway Co. has been ordered by OSHA to pay a former employee $122,199 in compensatory and punitive damages as well as reasonable attorney's fees. The company violated the employee's rights under the whistleblower provisions of the Federal Railroad Safety Act by terminating the employee for reporting an on-the-job injury in 2009.
The American Public Health Association recently announced the launch of Public Health Newswire, APHA’s newest resource that provides the latest news of public health events, trends and advocacy.
The rescue in October 2010 of 33 miners trapped for more than two months after a partial collapse of the San José Mine in Chile is revisited in “Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine,” a multimedia exhibition that opened at the Washington, D.C. National Museum of Natural History on August 5th— one year to the day after the miners were trapped, according to a press announcement by the Smithsonian-operated museum.
The Obama administration has announced the first-of-their-kind fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas pollution standards for work trucks, buses, and other heavy duty vehicles.