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Following President Biden’s announcement today that 1 million people in the United States have died from COVID-19, the National Safety Council marks this tragic milestone as a reminder of the omnipresent threat…
The global chartered body for health and safety professionals says delays to a promised Employment Bill in the UK poses an “imminent threat to the labour market”. The warning has…
Today, the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program announced the publication of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking as it considers adding uterine cancer to the List of WTC-Related Health Conditions (List). Currently,…
The COVID-19 pandemic and other recent large disease outbreaks have highlighted the extent to which health care settings can contribute to the spread of infections, harming patients, health workers and…
New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as “excess mortality”) between 1 January 2020…
A Pennsylvania manufacturer’s failure to provide guarding on a brick crushing machine ended in a 53-year-old worker suffering an arm amputation while operating the machine. A subsequent federal investigation at…
A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today, “Acute Hepatitis and Adenovirus Infection Among Children — Alabama, October 2021–February 2022” provides additional clinical and epidemiologic information…
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has awarded NIOSH researchers, staff, partners, and collaborators for their significant contributions to the field of occupational safety and health in…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a stakeholder meeting May 3, 2022, to provide an overview of and seek comments on the agency’s ongoing…
CDC will hold its annual Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference May 2-5, 2022, via a virtual platform that is free and open to the public. This conference highlights CDC’s disease…
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