Workplace Impacts Health of Pregnant Workers & New Moms
Pregnancy can be a period of great excitement and expectation. For some workers and their families, however, it can be a time for grave concern. A recent study …
Calculating employee injury, illness costs? Just add zeros
When a dollar sign is followed by a slew of zeros, it can be hard to grasp the implications in economic and human
Wake-up call on disabling chronic conditions
The longer we live, the more important quality of life becomes to
DART rates and nursing homes
In this installment of my series examining outreach letters that OSHA recently sent to facilities with two or more 2010 DART incidents, I’m looking at …
Protecting your back
Just because low back pain is a leading cause of disability and lost work time doesn’t mean you and your employer have to be among the sufferers. There are a …