Occupational Safety and Health Data Users’ Workshop, 2013

Occupational Safety and Health Series

Occupational Health and Safety Management

A Occupational Safety & Health

Asbestos is a generic term used to refer to a group of mineral forms that share a unique set of physical properties. Today, the six mineral structures now identified by OSHA and by the mineralogical definition as ‘‘asbestos’’ are those currently regulated in the United States and those that all industries governed by OSHA must keep within permissible exposure limits set out by the agency’s regu...

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Prevention through Design (PtD) Workshop closing remarks.

I am going to end where we began on Monday and remind you of the remarks by Fred Manuele. We should all heed his insights and sagacity on this subject: “prevention through design is big, it is heavy,” and let me take the liberty to add, it will be hard, take time, patience, and commitment. It will require leadership, but I am confident that change will occur. Why do I think so? What makes me so...

Technical workshop report: Working Group I: Occupational health and safety strategies for agriculture.

The six workshops in this subgroup--Injuries, Respiratory Diseases, Acute Chemical Toxicity, Cancer, and Health Surveillance--competently outlined the principal health and safety issues in agriculture, documenting the increased and unacceptable morbidity and mortality in farmers and their families. It became evident that although research knowledge is just now unfolding, sufficient data exist t...