Kids in the Gulf
Category: Environmental Health
How is the oil from the BP spill affecting children in the Gulf Coast?
Posted by The Pump Handle at 9:27 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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.
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July 30, 2010
July 29, 2010
Diane Lillicrap on Crane Safety
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
If you've got four minutes, watch Diane Lillicrap explain the importance of OSHA's new crane rule.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 5:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2010
OSHA Publishes Long-Awaited Crane Rule
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
After several years of delay, OSHA has finally published a final rule on crane and derrick safety in construction. For one determined mother, it must be a bittersweet day.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 3:06 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2010
The Asbestos Toll Goes Global
Category: Environmental Health
A nine-month investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists finds that the asbestos industry is spending millions to keep asbestos on the global market -- and by 2030, asbestos may have claimed as many as 10 million victims worldwide.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 11:21 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 26, 2010
Fishing Closures and Seafood Sniffing: Addressing Gulf Seafood Safety
Category: BP
Based on presence of oil in specific areas of the Gulf - and in fish and shellfish - federal and state agencies are determining which areas should be closed to fishing and overseeing the safety of seafood destined for markets. Consumers' confidence in the agencies doing these jobs will influence their willingness to purchase Gulf seafood .
Posted by The Pump Handle at 2:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Another Way to Reduce "Drugged Driving"
Category: Transportation
Medications can impair driving ability - but it's hard to tell people that if they're taking prescription drugs they can't drive.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 12:55 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 22, 2010
Immokalee farmworkers shine light on modern day slavery
Category: Confined Space @ TPH
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) are today's version of David, as in David and Goliath. CIW started in 1993 as a small group of southwest Florida farm workers discussing ways to better their lives. CIW has evolved into a...
Posted by Celeste Monforton at 5:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Occupational Health News Roundup
Category: Confined Space @ TPH
Did KBR cut an indemnity deal with the Army that will let it off the hook for letting National Guard troops be exposed to hexavalent chromium at the Qarmat Ali water plant? Plus, OSHA fines DuPont over phosgene leak, children work in Egypt's cotton fields, and IDSA thinks flu shots should be mandatory for healthcare workers.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 4:42 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 20, 2010
"I want those workers to be as safe as those shrimp" - What we still don't know about Deepwater Horizon response health impacts
Category: BP
When it comes to Gulf cleanup workers' health, information gaps persist - and their continued presence demonstrates the limits of our current system for protecting environmental, public, and workers' health.
Posted by The Pump Handle at 11:47 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chipping Away at Healthcare Costs - or Not
Category: Healthcare
An article on hospital supply purchasing demonstrates how existing structures can resist changes that might improve healthcare cost effectiveness.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 11:12 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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