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This research explores the association between fatigue-induced crash risk, transit operator hours of service and fatigue management policies in the state of Florida. Data used in this study include incident data archived by transit agencies and bus driver schedules. The results show a decreasing trend of collision risks when drivers start their schedules late morning or afternoon compared with early morning. The effect of time on task shows increasing collision risk as drivers drive long hours without enough off duty periods. Source : Mtoi E, Moses R, Sando T. J. Transp. Res. Forum 2013; 52(1)...
Thursday, March 14, 2013 - Workers setting-up modular LED display screens for the annual Miami Ultra Music Festival were trapped under screen components that fell about 30 feet (10m) from the overhead trusses. Fortunately, Fire and Rescue teams were on the festival site preparing for the two-weekend event that runs over Spring Break. They were able to respond immediately and free the trapped workers. The workers were transported to local hospitals where two were checked and found to have only minor injuries, and one worker remains hospitalized with two broken legs. The incident occurred just prior...
A NIOSH Technology News report on technology to provide a two-way communications system to improve miners' ability to communicate from underground to surface. Source : http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining/UserFiles/Works/pdfs/2013-105.pdf
A new infographic from Graphic Products reveals how OSHA has helped reduce occupational injuries and deaths in the United States by more than 60 percent in the last 4 decades. Source : http://ehstoday.com/osha/infographic-osha-s-role-reducing-occupational-injuries-fatalities
Keeping Tragedy out of the Comedies…and Musicals…and Dramas Data from the Bureau of Labor statistics show that injuries involving days away from work among occupations related to the theater increased from a low of 870 in 2006 to a high of 1,570 in 2008. In 2009, (the most current data available) injuries decreased to 1,190. Among the injuries incurred from 2003-2009, 50% were strains and sprains; 41% were to the lower extremities; and the median number of days away from work was 39 days– notable as the national average is around 8 days. Source : http://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science...
OSHA Instruction, National Emphasis Program for Programmed Inspections of Nursing and Residential Care Facilities, NAICS 623110, 623210 and 623311 (formerly SIC codes 8051- Skilled Nursing Care Facilities, 8052-Intermediate Care Facilities, and 8059-Nursing and Residential Care Facilities, Not Elsewhere Classified), sets forth policy and procedures for targeting and conducting programmed inspections in this industry. The specific hazards being addressed include ergonomic stressors in patient lifting, bloodborne pathogens, tuberculosis, workplace violence, and slips, trips and falls. Key terms are...
Seminal Research Papers 2012 In this paper, we review the scientific evidence for coordinating and integrating worksite health promotion and occupational health and safety as a means of enhancing the effectiveness of efforts to promote and protect worker health. The overall aim of this paper is to introduce the parameters for a research agenda aimed at improving worker health through such integrated and coordinated efforts. Source : http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2012-146/
Controversy surrounds occupational health and safety regulators, with some observers claiming that workplace regulations damage firms' competitiveness and destroy jobs and others arguing that they make workplaces safer at little cost to employers and employees. We analyzed a natural field experiment to examine how workplace safety inspections affected injury rates and other outcomes. We compared 409 randomly inspected establishments in California with 409 matched-control establishments that were eligible, but not chosen, for inspection. Compared with controls, randomly inspected employers experienced...
A human rights perspective Injured workers, particularly those with more severe injuries, have long experienced workers' compensation systems as stressful and demeaning, have found it difficult to obtain benefits, and, when able to obtain benefits, have found them inadequate. Moreover, the last two decades have seen a substantial erosion of the protections offered by workers' compensation. State after state has erected additional barriers to benefit receipt, making the workers' compensation experience even more difficult and degrading. These changes have been facilitated by a framing...
This document presents a bibliography of NIOSH communication and research products for the year 2010. Product types include journal articles, book chapters, numbered publications, abstracts/proceedings, control technology reports, fatality assessment and control evaluation reports, fire fighter fatality investigation and prevention reports, an author index, a keyword Index, and the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Index. Source : http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2012-128/
Opening the debate on first principles BACKGROUND: This article introduces the idea of human rights to the topic of workers' compensation in the United States. It discusses what constitutes a human rights approach and explains how this approach conflicts with those policy ideas that have provided the foundation historically for workers' compensation in the United States. METHODS: Using legal and historical research, key international labor and human rights standards on employment injury benefits and influential writings in the development of the U.S. workers' compensation system are...
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) says the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently approved the updated ANSI/ASSE A10.33-2011 standard, Safety and Health Program Requirements for Multi-Employer Projects. The A10.33-2011 standard sets up the minimum elements and activities of a program that defines the duties and responsibilities of construction employers working on a project where multiple employers are or will be engaged in the common undertaking to complete a construction project. This standard is a basis for use as a minimum safety and health guideline for a program...
Chemical Hazards Emergency Medical Management (CHEMM) is a web-based resource developed to help first responders and other healthcare providers and planners to plan for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of mass-casualty incidents involving unintentional or terrorist chemical releases. CHEMM was produced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, in cooperation with NIOSH and other partners. CHEMM is available on the Web or downloadable in advance if the internet becomes inaccessible during an event. Source...
The Teens at Work Project at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health released Safe Jobs for Youth Guide this summer. The guide is designed to assist cooperative education placement coordinators in assessing the safety and health of potential worksites for vocational students. The guide discusses relevant federal/state laws and steps to take before and after placing a student and it includes supplementary tools and resources. The guide is available at www.mass.gov/dph/teensatwork . Click on ‘Educational Materials’ then ‘Safe Jobs for Youth Guide.’ Source : Safe Jobs...
The Construction Focus Four Training consists of lesson plans on each of the Focus Four Hazards (Falls, Caught-in or -between, Struck by, Electrocution). Each lesson plan was developed based on learning objectives; therefore, trainers must: Use these objectives when planning the training; Follow the participatory training model by applying effective training techniques; and Ensure the objectives are measured by testing each student. Source : http://www.osha.gov/dte/outreach/construction/focus_four/index.html
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