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Dan Markiewicz's 30+ years of experience applies best practices to emerging safety and health issues.

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pregnant worker safety
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How to interpret the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

PWFA: Historic and inevitable
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Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
March 15, 2023
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The federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) was signed into law on December 29, 2022 and becomes effective in June. Here’s a detailed look at what this means.


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work-related cancer exposure
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How to prepare for rise in cancer rates

Survey on work-related exposure in EU to be published this year
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Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
February 6, 2023
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Within the coming decades, lifetime cancer risk i.e., cancer incidence in the U.S. will increase 50%-70% mainly because of population growth and an aging population.


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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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Many OHS pros are being kept out of the loop with ADA management

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Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
December 13, 2022
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Now that I have been personally thrust into the ADA-world, I am looking at the regulation with a much keener eye. I have many concerns.


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Do your health procedures measure up to NASA’s?

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Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
November 16, 2022
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Covid-19 interrupted and disrupted many concepts in health science plans. Now is the time for NIOSH to get back on track.


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lead risk assessment
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The vital need to conduct a lead risk assessment now

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Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
October 18, 2022
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The cascade of generally well-known catastrophic events associated with lead exposure continue to unfold.


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OSHA lead rulemaking
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OSHA’s proposed lead rulemaking

Pro-life laws affecting current ANPRM for blood lead levels
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Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
September 20, 2022
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 overturn of 1973 Roe v Wade has emboldened states to propose “fetal personhood” laws. What does this mean for proposed rulemaking for blood lead levels?


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Best Practices

Leaders with empathy are valuable

How and why to increase your ‘Empathy Quotient’ score
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Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
August 15, 2022
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Who is more empathetic e.g., better able to recognize pain in a person’s face, a professional industrial hygienist, or a professional historian? A person’s empathy capacity may be partly determined by Empathy Quotient (EQ) scores.


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industrial hygienists, professionals

Scope creep: Expand or establish limits of industrial hygiene capability?

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Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
July 14, 2022
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Industrial hygiene began as a medical specialty in the early 1900s. Scope creep among OHS pros is occurring now and will expand in the future, too. The challenge for OHS pros, and others, is to know when to expand or establish limits of OHS capabilities.


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Workplace reproductive and developmental health and safety programs

The impact of overturn of Roe v Wade on workplaces

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Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
July 13, 2022
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The court ruled in Roe that, “A person may choose to have an abortion until a fetus becomes viable, based on the right to privacy contained in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.


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Odor management
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What’s that smell? Odor management should be part of your OHS program

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Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
May 25, 2022
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How humans and other animals detect odors is an intriguing topic. Each OHS pro should understand the basics of how to interpret chemical exposures.
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