The 85-3 Campaign is encouraging employers to adopt lower decibel standards in an effort to prevent noise-induced hearing loss.
All EU member states face a May 2013 deadline to implement a directive spelling out how to assess risks of sharps injuries and implement appropriate controls.
The New Orleans EMS received the 2012 Dick Ferneau Paid EMS Service of the Year Award at last week’s conference.
A Massachusetts company is contesting two citations it received following an April inspection.
U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., said he will introduce his legislation Nov. 2.
Ameridose LLC is a sister company to the New England Compouding Center (NECC), which produced contaminated injectable steroid drugs that have been linked to 29 deaths and 377 cases thus far.
"Prevention and Wellness Across the Life Span" was the theme of the 140th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association last month. One keynote speaker, Dr. Reed V. Tuckson, spoke of "a tsunami ... a tidal wave of preventable illness [that is] coming into a delivery system that we cannot afford."
Our best bet is to layer multiple preventive strategies. If one is less than effective, others can fill the breach.
Published jointly Oct. 29 by the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization, it contains maps, tables, and graphs showing links between health and climate around the world.
Many EMS professionals complete skill refreshers every 90 days to keep their skills current. A hands-on skill session every 90 days is ideal for workplace lay responders.
Moreover, 20 percent of people said in the survey they are concerned for their physical safety in the workplace.
Writing in the Fall 2012 issue of Johns Hopkins Public Health, Dean Michael J. Klag calls for the same kind of collaboration as has been used to reduce annual traffic deaths significantly.
The Form 483 posted by the agency covers five October inspections of the Framingham, Mass., compounding pharmacy.
Certain Samaritan 300/300P PAD public access defibrillators made before December 2010 intermittently turn on and off, which eventually may deplete their batteries, the company announced.
The Centers for Health and Public Safety is joining Emergency University to raise awareness about preventable deaths.
Employers still would have to ensure they have an adequate number of trained first aid staffers as identified in their needs assessment. The earliest the law could change is April 2013.
The Sanford and Susan Greenberg Prize, $2 million in gold bullion, will go to the person or group deemed most responsible for ending blindness by Dec. 13, 2020.
Used for dental procedures, the devices have been recalled by Accutron, Inc. following two customer complaints that the device was flowing nitrous oxide gas without any oxygen gas flow.
These cases were in 16 states of the 23 where the New England Compounding Center's preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate solution was distributed.
"His outrage at the needless deaths and injuries in the nation's coal mines led him to take a leadership role in improving mine health and safety laws," UMWA International President Cecil E. Roberts said of the late former Sen. Arlen Specter.