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Liz Borkowski is a Research Associate at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She lives in Washington, DC and loves public transportation and pumpkin empanadas.
Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH is a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She also spent a decade working for the US Department of Labor, and has served on the teams investigating the 2006 Sago mine disaster and 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster for the state of West Virginia.
May 30, 2008
Category: Blog roundup
As rising oil prices continue to grab headlines, the spotlight turns to what politicians are and aren’t doing to solve our energy problems. David Roberts at Gristmill is outraged that Senator McCain will miss the vote on the Climate Security...
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From April 12 to May 22, seven workers have been killed while working on antenna towers, many of which service our wireless communication system. One worker was killed in Wake Forest, NC; another in San Antonio; a third was killed in...
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Category: Environmental Health
A study just published in the journal PLoS Medicine (and written up in the LA Times) suggests a link between childhood lead exposure and adult arrests for violent crimes. Studying 250 adults for whom they had prenatal and childhood blood...
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May 29, 2008
Category: Safety
by Susan F. Wood, PhD Last year, Congress passed new legislation on the Food and Drug Administration, known as the FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA) of 2007.This legislation, while limited, made some significant steps forward, see here and here. It reauthorizes...
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Category: Safety
In 1999, the CDC announced its selections for the 10 greatest achievements in U.S. public health history in the 20th century, and among them was improvements in motor vehicle safety. I've nothing against looking at success over a long term, but...
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May 28, 2008
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
For Memorial Day, news stories highlighted the importance of hearing, remembering, and responding to the stories of those who’ve served our country. The San Diego Union-Tribune profiled “four seemingly ordinary people who led extraordinary lives” in past wars; in the...
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Category: Safety
How do you best teach workers about safety? How do you change people’s attitudes? The Workers’ Comp board in Ontario, Cananda, and many safety instructors along with them, believes that gruesome pictures or videos work best. Like driving by the...
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May 27, 2008
Category: Environmental Health
Asbestos is internationally recognized as a carcinogen and blamed for 100,000 deaths each year, but neither the U.S. nor Canada has managed to ban its use. Two mines in Quebec still produce asbestos, and about 95% of their production is...
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Category: Regulation
Earlier this year, a group of worker advocates sent a petition to MSHA Chief Richard Stickler asking for rulemaking to improve the training miners receive about their statutory rights. The petition called for significant changes in the way in which all workers employed...
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May 23, 2008
Category: Blog roundup
Senator Edward Kennedy’s diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor is terrible news on multiple levels. While our thoughts go out to the Senator and his family, it’s also difficult to imagine Congress tackling the many important health-related issues before it...
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