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OHS Yearbook The Year in U.S. Occupational Health and Safety
January 4, 2021 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

Today, we are releasing the 9th edition of The Year in U.S. Occupational Health and Safety which recaps some of the most significant policy changes, advocacy activities, journalism and research over the last year.

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Public Health Practice Dr. Eula Bingham: Heroine for workers’ right to safe and healthy jobs
June 15, 2020 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 4Comment

Colleagues, former students, and advocates are sharing remembrances and tributes to Dr. Eula Bingham, who passed away on Saturday, June 13 at the age of 90.

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OHS Yearbook Hot off the press! Worker health and safety yearbook 2019
November 21, 2019 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 1Comment

The 8th edition of The Year in U.S. Occupational Health and Safety is hot off the press.

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Worker Health & Safety Working at the car wash… long hours on an urban assembly line
February 14, 2019 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 1Comment

I saw the title of the paper ….Car Wash Workers. Immediately the 1976 R&B hit from the movie soundtrack invaded my brain… Working at the car wash, yeah Well, those cars never seem to stop coming (Work and work) Keep those rags and machines humming (Work and work) My fingers to the bone (Work) Can’t […]

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Mining “It probably will be a horrible death,” says coal miner with black lung disease
January 24, 2019 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 1Comment

NPR’s Howard Berkes and Benny Becker of Ohio Valley Resource invite us to listen to the voice of seven coal miners—all who have severe lung disease because of their work. 

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Low-wage work Who cares about the health of healthcare workers?
January 21, 2019 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

Nearly 50 percent of Black and Latina workers in the healthcare industry earn less than $15 per hour. Making it their minimum wage would lift 900,000 of them and their children out of poverty.

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Regulation White House poised to roll back “blowout preventer” rules
January 9, 2019 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

Live streaming of the Deepwater Horizon’s failed blowout preventer (BOP) captured our attention in 2011. Rules were put in place in 2016 to guard against a similar disaster, but the White House is on the verge of rolling them back.

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Workers' Compensation 87% of Texas firefighters denied workers’ comp for cancer
December 18, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 3Comment

Texas firefighters are supposed to be covered by workers’ compensation insurance if they develop cancer. In the last seven years, 146 of 168 firefighters with cancer learned that is not the case.

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Public Health Practice Pushing aside women’s health is nothing new, talcum powder and cancer the latest example
December 13, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 4Comment

In a commentary, “Women: Exposed and Silenced by Asbestos,” Linda Reinstein shares the stories of five women. All five died from mesothelioma while some defenders of asbestos insist it doesn’t cause cancer in women.

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Child Labor Mixing teens and mechanical lifts in nursing homes: not safe for patients or teens
December 11, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 1Comment

A recent poll revealed 80 percent opposition to a Trump administration proposal to allow 16- and 17-year old workers to use power-driven hoisting equipment to move patients in nursing facilities. The risk of injury to patients and to the young workers should be sufficient for the Labor Department to ditch this bad idea.

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