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.
The NAOHP board held its quarterly meeting via conference call Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. All board members participated with the exception of Tom Brink. Executive Director Frank Leone and staff members Karen O’Hara and Rachel Stengel were also in attendance.
A movement is afoot to get more occupational health programs and modestly sized companies to embrace workplace health and productivity management (HPM) initiatives that have been the domain of larger corporations.
In the following excerpts from a VISIONS interview, Wayne Burton, M.D., a nationally recognized expert on health and productivity management, reflects on his career and the status of occupational medicine.
The following is excerpted from a panel discussion held during RYAN Associates’ 2009 National Conference. The topic was Repositioning to Build Your Organization’s Bottom Line.