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  • Contingent workers: Workers' compensation data analysis strategies and limitations.

    The growth of the contingent workforce presents many challenges in the occupational safety and health arena. State and federal laws impose obligations and rights on employees and employers, but contingent work raises issues regarding responsibilities to maintain a safe workplace and difficulties in collecting and reporting data on injuries and illnesses.
    Washington — Journal Article — 1/24/2014 — 4 Views

  • OHW: CDPH Launches Cosmetic Product Database

    Occupational Health Watch is a periodic publication that highlights key occupational health surveillance findings and related prevention activities of the Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health. January 2014 edition is about an online, searchable database developed by the California Safe Cosmetics Program where workers and consumers can search for specific products, companies, or chemical ingredients to find out about cosmetic products that contain toxic chemicals.
    California — Newsletter — 1/14/2014 — 2 Views

  • Tire Explosion: A Hazard to Workers Inflating Large Vehicle and Off-Road Machine Tires

    Washington FACE Hazard Alert and case report of worker injured while inflating large machine tire. Includes best practices to prevent injuries.
    Washington — Case Report — 12/13/2013 — 4 Views

  • Snowmaker Killed after Sliding off an Icy Trail and Striking a Tree

    Fatality investigation
    New York — Case Report — 12/2/2013 — 6 Views

  • Work Safe Work Smart: A Curriculum Targeted to Adolescent Health and Safety in the Workplace

    The Work Safe Work Smart curriculum was developed by public health professionals in collaboration with Minnesota teachers to explore occupational health and safety issues with high school students in an effort to reduce injury rates of young workers. In Work Safe Work Smart, students use their personal experience of work-related injury to identify workplace hazards, brainstorm ways to protect workers from hazards, and discuss barriers to making safe choices at work. More »
    Minnesota — Other — 11/27/2013 — 106 Views

  • Fogging Ambulances with Toxic Disinfectants May Cause Illness

    Health alert bulletin describes asthma that can be caused or made worse from exposure to disinfectants when micro-misted (i.e., fogging) in ambulances. The bulletin also provides guidelines and resources for personnel involved in the cleaning and disinfection of EMS equipment and transport vehicles.
    New Jersey — Other — 11/26/2013 — 13 Views

  • Solid Waste Workers Killed on the Job

    A surveillance publication from New Jersey's Occupational Health Surveillance Unit. This hazard alert (English version) provides updated injury statistics and offers simple steps to collectors and drivers to help prevent injuries while working on or near sanitation trucks. For more information visit the NJDOH's resource Web page at: www.nj.gov/health/surv/solidwaste_recycle.shtml.
    New Jersey — Brochure — 11/26/2013 — 6 Views

  • Don't Get Sick When Applying Pool Chemicals - Take Extra Care When Adjusting Chlorine Levels Manually

    Fact sheet describes asthma that can be caused or made worse from exposure to chlorine-based chemicals and provides information on safe work pracitices when handling pool chemicals.
    New Jersey — Other — 11/26/2013 — 6 Views

  • Video: "Lead in the Workplace -- the New Science" Symposium

    YouTube videos of a one-day symposium on the science behind the California Department of Public Health's recommended revisions to the Cal/OSHA lead standards. Sponsored by the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health Continuing Education, the symposium covered the current literature on health effects of low-level lead exposure and the newly released Cal/EPA report on physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling of the air lead/blood lead relationship. More »
    California — Multi-Media — 11/13/2013 — 5 Views

  • CDPH Health-based Permissible Exposure Limit Recommendation for Lead

    Presentation by Barbara Materna, Chief of the Occupational Health Branch, at Lead in the Workplace – The New Science, a symposium on the science behind the California Department of Public Health's recommended revisions to the Cal/OSHA lead standards. Sponsored by the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health Continuing Education.
    California — Other — 11/13/2013 — 5 Views
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