Workers’ compensation fraud has grown to become a multi-billion dollar a year problem, according to a report on MaineToday.com. According to the report, the American Insurance Association estimates workers' comp fraud losses at $3 billion a year, while industry watchdog the National Insurance Crime Bureau puts it at $5 billion.
A total of 36,680 American workers suffered eye injuries on the job in 2004 and required time off work to recuperate, according to a recently released U.S. Department of Labor study.
A recent study published in the Annals of Family Medicine reports that being angry more than quadruples a person’s odds of being injured, and being hostile increases those odds sixfold. Not surprisingly, the study also reports that being angry at work increased the odds of a workplace injury occurring.
At long last OSHA published a new standard in the Feb. 28 Federal Register that covers occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium in general industry, construction and shipyards. The new standard lowers OSHA's permissible exposure limit (PEL) for hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)), and for all Cr(VI) compounds, from 52 to 5 micrograms per cubic meter of air as an 8-hour time-weighted average.
At long last OSHA published a new standard in the Feb. 28 Federal Register that covers occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium in general industry, construction and shipyards.
President Bush’s budget request of $483.7 million for OSHA in fiscal year 2007 represents an increase of $11.2 million over FY 2006 and includes boosts for federal enforcement, compliance assistance and safety and health statistics, Jonathan L. Snare, acting OSHA chief, announced last month.
Experts say "employees with chronic work stress have more than double the odds" of suffering from metabolic syndrome than do "those without work stress, after other risk factors are taken into account," according to a report on www.mydna.com.
As BP continues its efforts to bring its 1,200-acre Texas City refinery back online, the work is being watched closely by OSHA, the Galveston County Daily News reports. Agency inspectors have been conducting unit-by-unit oversight of the work.
President Bush’s nominee to head OSHA, Edwin G. Foulke Jr., told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Jan. 31 that if confirmed he would work to make the agency more proactive in preventing workplace deaths and fatalities.
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