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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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September 30, 2010
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
Federal OSHA offered praise for some States, and warnings to others, in its 26 evaluations released this week of State-run worker safety programs. Hawaii's and Utah's programs were identified as having "significant program deficiencies," with evaluators expressing uncertainty about the...
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Posted by Celeste Monforton at 3:42 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 29, 2010
Category: Confined Space @ TPH
Mexican cartels target mayors and journalists; KBR's contract with the Army may protect it from legal liability as veterans sue the company over toxic exposures in Iraq; and the Justice Department declines to revoke BP's probation over safety violations at its Texas City refinery, where an explosion killed 15 workers in 2005.
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September 28, 2010
Category: Obesity
Obesity Panacea delves into the research on whether those who are obese but metabolically healthy face the same disease risks and weight-loss benefits as those who are obese and have metabolic syndrome.
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Posted by Liz Borkowski at 6:45 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 27, 2010
Category: Environmental Health
An Economist special report on forests highlights a scheme to pay for the many services these ecosystems provide.
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September 25, 2010
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
Updated below (9/28/2010) Is anybody else getting tired of hearing Obama Administration officials say "sunlight is the best disinfectant?" It was uttered again on Thursday (9/23) when the President's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, was speaking at an event hosted by...
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Posted by Celeste Monforton at 11:57 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 22, 2010
Category: Confined Space @ TPH
A judge rules that veterans' case against KBR over the burn pits it operated at US military bases can go forward; India's government introduces legislation to protect whistleblowers; and in the US, OSHA has published an interim final rule on whistleblower procedures and is accepting public comment.
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Category: Transportation
September 22nd is World Car-Free Day.
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Posted by Liz Borkowski at 11:16 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2010
Category: Combustible Dust
MSHA announced today that it will be issuing on September 23 an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to improve a practice to prevent coal dust explosions. The rule addresses "rock dusting"----the decades old practice of generously applying pulverized limestone dust throughout...
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Posted by Celeste Monforton at 3:35 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OSHA
At today's 2nd annual Distracted Driving Summit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood laid out the U.S. statistics: "thousands of people are killed or injured every year in accidents caused by distracted drivers" and 500,000 more are injured. Distractions while driving can...
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Posted by Celeste Monforton at 11:12 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 20, 2010
Category: Public Health - General
The UN is meeting to discuss progress on the Millennium Development Goals, which tackle global poverty and disease. There's some good news on some targets, but we're not as far along as we should be.
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