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Editor's Letter

Safety at home should include ergonomics

Pain-free WFH

May 6, 2020

If you’ve transitioned into working from home recently, along with many non-essential workers, you might be in danger of developing heath issues. Ergonomics is an area often ignored, but considered essential to eliminate pain from repetitive movements and bad posture.

2019 top standards- Critical OSHA standards

OSHA confined space general industry standard

29 CFR 1910.146: OSHA Confined Space Standard – General Industry

January 3, 2019

The standard applies to all general industry places of employment, including agricultural services, manufacturing, transportation and utilities, wholesale trade, food stores, hotels and other lodging, health services, museums, botanical gardens and zoos.

Columbus-Southerly WWTP Case Study- May 2017

Columbus, Ohio Wastewater Treatment Plant improves working conditions with Eckel acoustic panels

May 30, 2017

It’s a fact of life in every industrial facility: Heavy machinery and a cavernous room are a bad combination. The noise generated in such an environment quickly becomes intolerable, not to mention dangerous for those working there.

Airbus: Different work-related stress prevention measures for different situations in a global aircraft manufacturer

Effort wins European Union Healthy Workplaces Good Practice Awards 2014 – 2015

April 27, 2015

The issue: In recent years, Airbus operations in France and Spain have launched a lot of new products to remain leader in the aircraft manufacturing market. Hundreds of improvement projects have been carried out which aim to boost performance and support new developments.

OSHA puts new workers' rights video online

March 5, 2015

OSHA has produced a new video describing the workers’ rights to a safe workplace. Viewers of the video are directed to www.osha.gov/workers for more information. There’ll they’ll learn about:

'Negative Working Conditions Score' linked to depression

September 18, 2013

Adverse working conditions are associated with the risk of depression in working-age adults, suggests a study in the September Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).

The Expendables: How the temps who power corporate giants are getting crushed

Michael Grabell

July 1, 2013

It’s 4:18 a.m. and the strip mall is deserted. But tucked in back, next to a closed-down video store, an employment agency is already filling up. Rosa Ramirez walks in, as she has done nearly every morning for the past six months. She signs in and sits down in one of the 100 or so blue plastic chairs that fill the office.