A new report quantifies problem drinking's impact on employers and recommends Workplace SBI, which uses brief counseling interventions.
The agency's "supplemental" proposed rule today makes no changes in the rule, which was issued Aug. 15, 2007, despite a federal judge's injunction blocking its implementation. DHS has appealed.
Acting Surgeon General Rear Admiral Steven K. Galson, M.D., M.P.H., and other luminaries kicked off the series of events last night at Central Wyoming College.
The manufacturing sector accounted for 28 percent of all mass layoff events and 36 percent of all related initial claims filed during the month. The number of manufacturing claimants was highest in transportation equipment manufacturing, largely in automobile manufacturing.
The first of five annual reports to Congress, the Interagency Aerospace Revitalization Taskforce offers strategies for meeting the challenges of the aerospace industry's growing talent demands.
Under the decree, the company will pay $1.3 million to be shared among six African American former employees, and $200,000 will be apportioned among 11 similarly situated individuals identified during the litigation.
The majority of CFS and FM patients displayed abnormal adrenal function due to hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction, which can be treated with cortisol, in doses of as little as 5 mg to 15 mg a day, the study shows.
"The bottom line is this: Low-income children in urban areas need more, long-term intensive efforts," says Kelli A. Komro, the study's lead author.
"A low level of daily physical activity not only doesn't help your current health status, it could be the reason you got sick in the first place," says Frank Booth of the University of Missouri.
Starting today, the U.S. Department of Labor is making available to employers nationwide a free database of 1,769 new job candidates with disabilities seeking work in a wide variety of fields.
The DC federal appeals court upheld an NLRB decision that the retail giant must bargain with UFCW on the effects of converting a Texas meat department.
Two-thirds of Boomers think the chances of becoming disabled due to illness or injury are 20 percent or less, according to the survey.
By 2016, the number of electrical and power line workers is expected to reach 877,000, with an increase of 66,000 jobs beyond the 2006 level of 817,000.
This poster, created by 10-year-old Immanuel Adriana Rakshana of Kuwait, was the Grand Prize Winner in the 9-10 age group. It will be one of five works featured on the official poster for NAOSH Week, celebrated May 4-10.
"This is the only comprehensive directory of its kind on the Web which will, for the first time, bring together, in an easy to use portal, all the many aspects of this vast area of workplace health and safety," says its creator.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration is seeking to hire new federal mine inspectors for positions in Mesa, Ariz., and Helena, Mont.
Average annual carbon emissions in the United States measure 19.6 tons per person. Earth Hour is designed to show that, together, each small action taken collectively can make a difference in reducing those emissions.
This program is designed to answer the questions "Why should business owners care about safety?" and "What does safety excellence look like?"
SAMHSA expects to award approximately $7.0 million in grants to 'Category 1' and 'Category 2' recipients for up to 3 years. Deadline to apply is April 18.