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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.
June 30, 2010
Category: Confined Space @ TPH
Mine explosions in Colombia and China kill 120 mineworkers; researchers study vuvuzela noise exposure; and a judge approves a settlement between New York City and workers who say their health was damaged by Ground Zero rescue and cleanup.
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June 29, 2010
Category: Public Health - General
Inside the Outbreaks author Mark Pendergrast asks whether CDC should have regulatory power. To answer that, it's helpful to see how successful CDC has been at translating findings into disease-preventing action.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 12:46 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
by Eula Bingham & Anthony Robbins On April 20th, when the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded, eleven workers died. Since then thousands of Gulf Coast citizens have responded to the disaster. Few are professional clean-up workers, but these responders...
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June 28, 2010
Category: BP
It's not entirely clear how all of the Gulf Coast cleanup workers are being hired - and the Louisiana Workforce Commission is among those wanting to know more.
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June 25, 2010
Category: New Solutions: The Drawing Board
The President's Cancer Panel report includes some strong findings and recommendations on ways to reduce the cancer burden caused by workplace exposures.
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June 24, 2010
Category: Healthcare
Katy Butler's story of her father's pacemaker is both a critique of our fee-for-service medical system and a moving portrait of a family facing agonizing circumstances.
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June 23, 2010
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
When President Obama nominated Prof. Cass Sunstein to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) many of us in the public health community were worried. He was, afterall, an academic who authored a paper entitled, "Is OSHA unconstitutional?"...
Posted by Celeste Monforton at 4:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 22, 2010
Category: MSHA
MSHA took another step toward openness by posting on its website the "preliminary report of accident" form for the most recent fatal injury incidents at US mining operations. The MSHA Form 7000-13 is the first record made by agency personnel...
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Category: Public Health - General
Mark Pendergrast's Inside the Outbreaks explores the combination of heroism and "shoe-leather epidemiology" necessary to tackle disease outbreaks.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 9:21 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 21, 2010
Category: Safety
When one of the nation's largest mobile cranes--the Versa TC 36000---collapsed on July 18, 2008 at the LyondellBasell refinery in Pasadena, TX, four workers lost their lives: Marion "Scooter" Hubert Odom III, 41; John D. Henry, 33; Daniel "DJ" Lee...
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