“Starting today, Merck & Co., Inc., will begin disclosing grants provided by its Global Human Health Division to U.S. organizations in support of independent accredited educational programs for health care professionals, the portion of dues that major U.S.-based trade associations report to the company as being used for advocacy and/or political activities in the United States, and the registration status by country for two of the company's newest vaccines and all of its HIV medicines as part of its increased commitment to transparency,” according to a Merck press statement.
Gordian Health Solutions, Inc., a leading national personal health coaching company, released the results of a study this week showing that employees in different occupational industries report varying levels of depressive symptoms. Of the 13 occupational industries the study examined, the highest percentage of employees who reported feeling depressed for two weeks or more in the past year were those in the arts-entertainment-recreation, retail trade and utilities industries, according to a press release.
Zehra Schneider Graham, CHMM, REM (Boston, Mass.) was elected by her peers as the 2009 vice president/president-elect of the Academy of Hazardous Materials Managers (ACHMM), according to a recent press release.
The rate of workplace injuries and illnesses in private industry declined in 2007 for the sixth consecutive year, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported yesterday. Nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses reported by private industry employers declined from 4.4 cases per 100 workers in 2006 to 4.2 cases in 2007.
Road Safe America, a non-profit seeking to have a national regulation adopted requiring the use of speed governors to slow down tractor-trailer rigs to save lives, issued a press statement applauding the board of the American Trucking Associations’ (ATA) support of required activation of electronic speed governors on big trucks built since 1992 at 65 mph or slower.
OSHA announced in the Oct. 22 Federal Register that it is reopening the record on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on electric power generation, transmission and distribution work and for electrical protective equipment. This limited reopening seeks to obtain comments related to how close an employee (or a conductive object that an employee is contacting) may get to an energized circuit part.
The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) announced in a press statement the October 27, 2008, launch of a new online, interactive job board — the Safety Equipment Industry JobBase — to match qualified professionals with prospective employers.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. yesterday hosted what it called in a press statement “an unprecedented gathering of more than 1,000 leading suppliers, Chinese officials and NGOs in Beijing, China. The company outlined a series of aggressive goals and expectations to build a more environmentally and socially responsible global supply chain.”
Nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses among private industry employers in 2007
occurred at a rate of 4.2 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers — a decline from 4.4 cases in 2006, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced today.
The current economic slowdown reinforces the need for employers to protect their most valuable asset — employees — through programs to promote prevention, wellness and chronic disease management, DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance said in a recent press release.
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