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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.
September 28, 2009
by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure A good story by the AP's Lauran Neergaard yesterday highlighted the need for better public health surveillance and the efforts being made to improve it so as to keep track of possible rare side...
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September 25, 2009
Category: Confined Space @ TPH
Ordinarily, when a worker is abused by an employer, the employer can be prosecuted, found guilty, and penalized. That hasn’t been the case with diplomats accused of abusing domestic workers; their diplomatic immunity has allowed them to duck charges of...
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Category: Regulation
by Ken Ward, Jr., cross-posted from Sustained Outrage: a Gazette Watchdog Blog During a public hearing last night in Georgia, the federal Chemical Safety Board tried to answer critics who complained the board had backed off its strong recommendation that...
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September 24, 2009
Category: Safety
WTOC in Savannah, GA is reporting that Georgia's Senators, Republicans Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss, are calling on OSHA to issue a regulation to protect workers from the dangers related to combustible dust. WTOC says that the Senators were brief today by officials of the Chemical...
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Category: Regulation
by Ken Ward, Jr., cross-posted from Sustained Outrage: a Gazette Watchdog Blog The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is scheduled to release the findings of its investigation into the terrible explosion that killed 14 workers at a Georgia sugar refinery in...
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September 23, 2009
Category: Regulation
We long been hearing moans and groans from many in the business community about how OSHA rules stiffle the economy, or worse, from employers who insist that following OSHA rules will cost them jobs. The sad truth is the exact opposite: failing to meet basic...
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Category: Occupational Health & Safety
Bans on smoking in restaurants and other public places don't just make nonsmokers' working and dining experiences more enjoyable, they also protect our health. Reducing exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke reduces the risk of heart attacks - and the places...
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September 22, 2009
Category: Environmental Health
Today is Car-Free Day, and how easy it is for us to get along without a personal vehicle depends largely on where we live. Using Census Bureau data, Forbes has created a ranking of the cleanest-commuting metro areas. Areas earn...
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September 21, 2009
Category: Regulation
Members of Congress George Miller (D-CA), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and Corrine Brown (D-FL) sent a letter to acting OSHA chief Jordan Barab urging the agency to expand its process safety management standard (PSM) to address reactive chemicals. Reactives are highly unstable that...
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September 18, 2009
Category: Confined Space @ TPH
How well prepared are US workplaces for a severe outbreak of swine flu (or a similar disease)? Not very well, a survey from the Harvard School of Public Health finds: In a national survey of businesses that looks at their...
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