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What you should know about ANSI/ASSP Z10.0-2019 OHSMS

January 1, 2020

This is a voluntary consensus standard. It uses recognized management system principles in order to be compatible with quality and environmental management system standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001.

Cellphone-related head and neck injuries

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For Your Health & Wellness: Cellphone injuries

Cellphone-related head and neck injuries on the rise, study says

A. Pawlowski

January 1, 2020

People distracted by their cellphones are tripping, falling and hurting their heads and necks more often, with such injuries increasing “steeply” over a 20-year period, a new analysis has found.

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For Your Health & Wellness: Obesity and the brain

Obesity may change the teen brain, MRI study shows

Amy Norton

January 1, 2020

Obese teenagers can have certain brain differences from their thinner peers -- changes that might signal damage from inflammation, a new, preliminary study suggests.

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For Your Health & Wellness: Coping with pain

11 alternatives to meds

January 1, 2020

Several techniques can help reduce stress and promote relaxation. Listening to soothing, calming music can lift your mood -- and make living with chronic pain more bearable.

New Year’s Resolutions to improve safety at your workplace

January 1, 2020

Lose weight. Quit smoking. Finally finish that home repair to-do list. A new year is perceived by many as an opportunity to make changes that will lead to positive changes in one’s health, relationships, environment, etc. The start of a new year is also a good time for safety professionals to take stock of the safety status quo at their company, and find ways to fix problems or to take the company’s safety culture to the next level.

Large study links sustained weight loss to reduced breast cancer risk

Even a modest amount of sustained weight loss is associated with lower breast cancer risk for women over 50

December 24, 2019

A large new study finds that women who lost weight after age 50 and kept it off had a lower risk of breast cancer than women whose weight remained stable, helping answer a vexing question in cancer prevention. The reduction in risk increased with the amount of weight lost and was specific to women not using postmenopausal hormones.

Two teen workers electrocuted at a McDonald’s in Peru

December 24, 2019

Two teenage employees working the overnight shift at a McDonald’s in Lima, Peru were electrocuted earlier this month – an incident which has led to a national conversation about workplace conditions at various companies in the country. News reports say Alexandra Porras Inga and Gabriel Campos Zap were electrocuted by a loose cable, possibly while mopping the floor of the restaurant.

EPA orders online marketplace to stop selling illegal pesticides

Illegal, mislabeled products pose danger to kids, pets, the elderly

December 24, 2019

Have a cockroach problem? Before you order pesticides online, consider this: the EPA has issued a “Stop Sale” order to online marketplace Bonanza.com requiring the company to immediately halt sales of a dozen imported pesticide products not legal -- or safe -- for sale in the United States. Among the unregistered, illegal pesticides targeted by the order is “Miraculous Insecticide Chalk" -dangerous because of its documented history of causing illness in children who mistake the chalk for regular sidewalk or black board chalk.

Where did all that tobacco settlement money go?

Hint: Not to anti-smoking programs

December 24, 2019

In 1998, an historic landmark legal settlement between 46 states and the major tobacco companies, – along with individual settlements with four other states – required the companies to pay more than $246 billion over time as compensation for tobacco-related health care costs.

Traffic deaths decreased in 2019

December 23, 2019

Data released last week by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) showed highway crash fatalities in the U.S. down 2.2 percent for the first 9 months of 2019 compared to the first 9 months of 2018. An estimated 26,730 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes through September 30, making the third quarter of 2019 the eighth consecutive year-to-year quarterly decline in fatalities since the fourth quarter of 2017.