With April being Stress Awareness Month and millennials reporting the highest average stress levels of any generation, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019's Most & Least Stressed States as well as accompanying videos.
To determine the states with the highest stress levels, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 40 key metrics.
Cal/OSHA has cited a Bay Area contractor for serious safety violations after a worker was fatally crushed at a San Rafael construction site on
September 18, 2018. Investigators determined that West Coast Land and Development,
Inc. did not follow regulations when it stacked plywood vertically without securing it.
The accident occurred when two employees of the Concord company were framing and
installing a shear wall on the third floor of a house under construction.
A recent survey of 30 metropolitan areas showed a 30% increase from 2014 to 2017 in the average wait time for a new patient to be seen by a doctor. Did the subset of workers seeking treatment for workers comp (WC) injuries experience the same delays?
A recent study by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) yielded some surprising results.
The NCCI research was designed to answer the question: “Did the Affordable Care Act (ACA) stress the healthcare delivery system and make it more difficult for workers compensation claimants to get medical care?”
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Pregnant women who work two or more night shifts per week have an increased risk of miscarriage, according to a study published online yesterday in online in Occupational & Environmental Medicine.
Researchers in the department of occupational and environmental medicine at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital in Copenhagen analyzed pregnancy outcomes in nearly 23,000 workers, most of whom were employed in Danish hospitals.
Total Work Health concept extended into neighborhoods
March 27, 2019
Workplaces can play a large role in improving worker health, resulting in improved community health. But, how can workplaces and communities interact to influence the overall health of workers? Can workers in precarious work arrangements, often characterized by low wages and few or no benefits, rely on their communities to help them in protecting and promoting safer and healthier work?
The growing enthusiasm for the annual National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction has given rise to a new, similar event: the National Safety Stand-Up for Grain Safety Week. It’s happening this week. The event is designed to raise awareness about the hazards in the grain handling industry, which include engulfment/entrapment; slip, trip, and fall prevention; mechanical hazards; machine guarding; and lockout/tagout. Demonstrations of those hazards – along with discussions about how to abate them, were held at the Asmark Institute Agricenter in Bloomington, Illinois yesterday.
"Every region of the U.S." is affected by opioid epidemic
March 26, 2019
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun testing an experimental drug that could help opioid addicts deal with the cravings that cause them to continue using the dangerous substance. In Phase I of the clinical trial currently underway at the NIH Clinical Center – researchers will study how the compound ANS-6637 is processed in the body when given with another drug that is processed by the same liver enzyme pathway.
Ultrasonic gas detector, anti-impact gloves, personal hearing protection, and confined-space body harness selected by independent experts for iF Design, Red Dot and Good Design Best 100 product design competitions.
March 26, 2019
Honeywell (NYSE:HON) today announced that several of its industrial safety products were selected as winners in three separate product design awards recently, including the prestigious iF Design, Red Dot and Good Design Best 100 awards. These awards, each of which attracted hundreds of entries and were judged by an international panel of design experts, recognized Honeywell new product designs in multiple categories for their innovative merits; ergonomical, user-centered design; and aesthetic and emotional appeal.