Taking the next step in the process of enacting a national work health and safety regulatory scheme, Safe Work Australia opened the comment periods Sept. 26 for draft codes on fall protection, first aid, chemical safety, and more.
A record 1,580 exhibitors have booked 617,800 square feet of exhibit space for the Oct. 18-21 trade show and the Congress for Safety and Health at Work.
The Z590.3 standard focuses specifically on the avoidance, elimination, reduction, and control of occupational safety and health hazards and risks in the design and redesign process.
“No effective intervention exists to improve employment outcomes following any cancer diagnosis, including breast cancer,” said author Mary Sesto.
“Mobile voting carries the potential to increase voter participation, reduce election administration costs, and allow voters to interact with familiar technology," the authors wrote.
The working group consists of seven experts, including a psychiatrist specializing in risk analysis and three investigators from the French aviation inspection authority who specialize in human factors.
The calendar is full of big meetings from early September to mid-December, including VPPPA, NSC, A+A, the IFMA World Workplace 2011, and NFPA's Fire & Life Safety Conference.
The Congress is held every three years and is one of the largest global events promoting efforts to reduce work-related accidents and diseases in the workplace.
The results suggest that reducing work hours for exercise or other health promotion doesn’t necessarily lead to decreased productivity—and may even lead to increased productivity.
The Guidelines include recommendations on musculoskeletal injuries, aerobic exercise for knee arthritis, and postsurgical rehabilitation.
“While we have made great strides in creating separate cultures of safety and wellness in the United States in recent decades, the two have yet to meet and merge into a truly sustainable culture of health," said Pamela Hymel, M.D., the paper’s lead author.
Grip is indeed the new safety feature. But why is grip able to offer the glove user more safety?
The study will involve 960 delivery workers at 72 wholesale/retail trade establishments to see whether using stair-climbing, powered hand trucks and powered truck lift gates reduces their back pain and upper extremity pain.
Organizations are asked to submit their best workplace improvements, highlighting the implementation of a creative, sustainable, and high-impact ergonomic solution.
The group conducted preliminary human factors/ergonomics research to determine the scope of their community’s improper posture problem by evaluating local employees and students.
Nearly 1.8 million people worked in the traveler/accommodations industry in 2008, including more than 400,000 hotel room cleaners.
They can be viewed beginning at 8:30 a.m. EDT both July 12 and July 13. Taking place in Cincinnati, the 7th Symposium will showcase excellence in OSH research and how it may be applied to prevent injuries and illnesses.
Compared with a flat surface, stepladders present a smaller and less rigid surface on which to stand, and the narrow steps make it easier for a person to lose his or her balance.
A paper published in the Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment and Health states that two minutes of exercise daily for 10 weeks caused office workers with neck and shoulder pain to experience fewer headaches.
Overexertion is the third leading cause of unintentional injuries treated in emergency departments in the United States, accounting for an estimated 3.3 million visits annually.