Showing posts with label CDC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CDC. Show all posts
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Bird Flu: Is Human-to-Human Spread Taking Flight?

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] alert from September 27, 2024, raises concerns about human-to-human transmission of bir...
Saturday, October 8, 2022

Occupational Exposure to Monkeypox

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A recent report published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that both h...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Back to Work is Going to be Back to COVID

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The US Centers for Disease Control [CDC] announced today a continuation of its flawed strategy to reduce the plateaued high transmission ra...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

COVID Boosters: What Employees and Employers Need to Know

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Many employers and state governments are mandating that employees be vaccinated against COVID. Confusion remains over the rapidly changing l...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

National COVID-19 Aerosol Workplace Standard Urged

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Leading public health and workplace safety experts have urged the Biden Administration to invoke immediate measures to reduce the aerosol sp...
Monday, February 1, 2021

CDC issues mandate on wearing of face masks while on conveyances and at transportation hubs

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Many of the nation’s employers and employees will be impacted by a recent mask mandate promulgated by The Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

CDC Is Seeking Occupational Health Partners to Vaccinate

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking the participation of occupational health partners to vaccinate essential wor...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Is the workers' compensation system ready for the COVID-19 [coronavirus] virus? Live Updates

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It seems that every decade a new pandemic emerges on the world scene, and complacency continues to exist in the workers’ compensation arena...
Friday, September 4, 2020

Workplace Testing - Pandemic Preparedness Strategy for Success

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Maintaining a safe workplace is a crucial strategy in the era of COVID-19. Today's guest author,  Michael Gelman, MD PhD , discusses how...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Fourteen Attorney Generals Criticizes EPA for Failing to Protect Americans from Asbestos, a Long-Known Dangerous Carcinogen

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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, leading a coalition of 14 attorneys general, in...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

Emergency Federal Coronavirus Funding - Better late than never

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The recently enacted emergency coronavirus Federal funding legislation will offer some support to ease the burden of the epidemic on the w...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

House Appropriations Committee Releases Discretionary Labor-HHS Funding Bill

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Worker safety and health is a focus of the just released House Committee on Appropriations. The Legislation increases discretionary fundin...
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

CDC has requested comments for the feasibility of a mesothelioma registry

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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has announc...
Thursday, April 4, 2019

Workers Who Are Non-Smokers Suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [COPD]

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Approximately 25% of adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have never smoked, and workplace exposures likely contribute ...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Total Disability and an Aging Workforce

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Workers' Compensation is synonymous with disability and a recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highl...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

1 in 3 swimming-related disease outbreaks occur at hotels

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Crypto parasite continues to cause most outbreaks and illnesses linked to pools and water playgrounds. A third of treated recreational ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Zika: The Next Compensable Infectious Disease - Benefit Challenges Begin

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Workers' Compensation insures for the consequences of infectious diseases arising out of and in the course of employ...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

New Jersey Workers Are at High Risk for Asthma

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The US Centers for Disease Control  reported  today that workers in various industries and occupations are at risk for work-related asthma. ...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Tobacco an Occupational Hazard: The Case Against Cigarette Sales by Pharmacies

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Smoking continues to be a two edged sword in workers' compensation claims. Smokers in the workplace cause serious and sometimes fatal co...
Friday, April 22, 2016

22 million U.S. workers are exposed to hazardous occupational noise

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data regarding injuries, deaths, and illness faced by millions every year ...