In an exciting development, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) will sponsor two accredited pre-conference courses in conjunction with RYAN Associates’ national conference for the first time this year.
When an employee with a valid state prescription for the use of marijuana tests positive during an employment-related drug screen, employers are faced with a difficult dilemma;
Everyone would benefit if all employers and workers had a MOM who cares as much as this one.
Hospital-owned practices were the most successful in attracting physicians in 2009.
In a recent online dialogue on What to do About Safety Incentives, Dr. David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, (OSHA) told more than 1,000 listeners why he considers the link between accurate injury tracking and appropriate workplace safety incentives to be of paramount importance.
Children suffer both emotionally and economically when a parent dies or becomes severely disabled in a work-related accident. College plans, for example, often get shoved to the back burner.
Sometimes a tragic loss results in a calling. When Shawn Boone, 33, died in 2003 of burns suffered in an aluminum dust explosion at his workplace in Indiana, his sister, Tammy Miser, took a crash course in work-related fatality investigations.
A healthier workforce is being queued up as one of the significant anticipated lasting effects of national health care reform.
During a recent policy briefing, Patrick O’Connor, director of public affairs for the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), presented the following summary of healthcare reform law provisions the college believes will be particularly relevant to OEM physicians:
The concept of total employee health management achieves new heights at Group Health Cooperative (GHC), where the occupational health program has earned a quality seal of approval from the National Association of Occupational Health Professionals.