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Workplace health and safety organizations: Urgent clarification needed on CDC guidance for fully vaccinated people

May 19, 2021

The new CDC's guidance has created troubling confusion among employers, workers, and worker health and safety professionals.

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Pandemic best practices and new technologies

Consider these 12 practices from the field; stay abreast of breakthrough technologies

Dave Johnson

September 16, 2020

For all the COVID-19 safety guidelines circulating, some hundreds of pages long, basic best practices are straightforward and known by most Americans. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, recently recounted them in an interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association.

OSHA and other COVID-19 reopening standards to know

Devin Partida

September 10, 2020

The supply chain is a part of every industry. Businesses, manufacturing plants and factories must be operational to keep supply chains going for food, technology and all types of commerce. With COVID-19 disrupting the entire world, safety is now a top priority.

National Safety Council statement on new CDC testing guidelines

September 2, 2020

The National Safety Council urges employers to continue to be vigilant with testing despite the recent guideline amendment issued by the CDC.

Tobacco remains top killer in U.S.

December 9, 2016

Despite the fact that overall tobacco consumption has declined over time, tobacco use continues to be the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Sick food workers behind many foodborne illness outbreaks

December 7, 2016

Hundreds of the foodborne illness outbreaks reported in the U.S. can be traced to one cause, according to the CDC: food workers who come to work sick. Ill employees have been implicated in foodborne illness outbreaks caused by at least 14 different germs.

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The hidden toll of drug-resistant superbugs

September 21, 2016

Just 17 days old, Josiah Cooper-Pope died in the hospital after he was infected with a drug-resistant bacteria, but no one added his death to the toll from the deadly bug.

States get $60 million to help battle Zika virus

July 22, 2016

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will begin making awards totaling nearly $60 million to states, cities, and territories to support efforts to protect Americans from Zika virus disease and adverse health outcomes that can result from Zika infection, including the serious birth defect microcephaly.

How much risk does the Zika virus pose for Olympic visitors?

July 14, 2016

According to the Brazilian Tourism Board, approximately 350,000 – 500,000 international visitors and athletes from 207 countries are expected to travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games (Games).

FDA asserts reg authority over e-cigarettes, other products

May 6, 2016

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday finalized a rule extending its authority to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco and pipe tobacco. The rule helps implement the bipartisan Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 and allows the FDA to restrict the sale of these tobacco products to minors nationwide.