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Worker Health & Safety Wood chippers, worker deaths, failing to adopt safer technology
October 31, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 6Comment

55 workers have been fatally injured since 2007 after being pulled into a wood chipper. Safety sensors can be installed to reduce the hazard but too few manufacturers and employers have adopted the safer technology.

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Worker Health & Safety Bryan, Texas: Protesters wearing diapers demand bathroom breaks for poultry workers
October 3, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 1Comment

Poultry workers at Sanderson Farms in Bryan, Texas want better working conditions, including access to the bathroom when their bladders and bowels demand it.   

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Worker Health & Safety Perils of working in somebody’s house: Home care aides and slips, trips, falls
September 26, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 1Comment

A new paper examines the experiences of home care aides with on-the-job slips, trips, and falls. Effectively addressing the hazard might require the aide to cajole a client’s family to change their behavior.

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Worker Health & Safety Their work, his work: 50 years of photographs by Earl Dotter
September 21, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 2Comment

A new book features 500 photographs by Earl Dotter that capture the dignity, pride and hazards of work.

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Worker Health & Safety On the ground with Las Vegas casino workers: long tenure, aches and pains
September 19, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

Focus groups involving non-union casino hotel workers in Las Vegas reveal longevity at their current jobs while also experiencing conditions that negatively affect their health and safety.

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Worker Health & Safety Outstanding journalism, new research featured in OHS yearbook 2018
September 7, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

For the seventh consecutive year we prepared a yearbook to recount the best journalism, peer-reviewed literature, and reports from organizations on worker health and safety topics in the U.S. The yearbook was released on Labor Day 2018.

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Worker Health & Safety States, localities at forefront of new worker safety and health protections, OHS yearbook profiles many of them
September 5, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 2Comment

The “Year in U.S. Occupational Health & Safety,” which was released on Labor Day, profiles more than a dozen victories in states and localities to advance protections for workers.

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Worker Health & Safety New federal policies on worker health and safety, enforcement action recapped in OHS yearbook
September 5, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 2Comment

The “Year in U.S. Occupational Health & Safety,” which was released on Labor Day, recaps the significant federal policy changes and activities over the past 12 months that affect injury and illness protections for workers.

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Worker Health & Safety A Labor Day tradition: Yearbook on worker health and safety, 7th edition released today
September 3, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH 4Comment

For the seventh consecutive year, our OHS yearbook presents our choices for the most significant policy changes, advocacy activities, journalism and research over the past 12 months.

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Worker Health & Safety Epidemiologists file lawsuit against OSHA over injury records rule
July 26, 2018 Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH

It’s not often that epidemiologists file lawsuits. But state epidemiologists who focus on work-related injuries and illnesses have stepped forward into litigation to preserve an OSHA injury reporting rule.

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