Occupational Health Management Archives – January 1, 2004
January 1, 2004
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Culture changes can lay foundation for occ-health programming success
Occupational health professionals may not necessarily consider themselves messengers of corporate culture but, according to the experts, the ability to help change cultural attitudes may be an important arrow to have in your quiver as you target health and safety improvement. -
Health system offers a lifetime of work
In a time when health care professionals, particularly nurses, are in short supply, its in every employers interest to find ways to keep their staff interested and committed. When they can accomplish this while at the same time offering significant and unique benefits to those employees, theyre achieving something that will make others sit up and take notice. -
Kodak links productivity, safety in programming
While the issues of safety and productivity may not, at first glance, seem directly related, the two are inextricably linked, says Wayne Lednar, MD, corporate medical director of Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, NY. -
For better worker health, bring those silos down
The term silos is used quite often in discussions about health care quality improvement, but perhaps not quite as frequently when it comes to occupational health. Changing that trend could lead to significant improvement in employee health, asserts Robin F. Foust, PAHM, president of Zoe Consulting Inc., a Catawba, SC-based occupational health consulting firm. -
AAOHN, CMSA release new privacy statement
The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Inc. (AAOHN) and the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) have released a joint position statement providing further guidance to nurse case managers and occupational and environmental health nurses in protecting employees/clients privacy rights. -
Guest Column: The new paradigm in occupational health
As a principal of Work Loss Data Institute and publisher of Official Disability Guidelines and ODG Treatment in Workers' Comp, guest columnist Patricia Whelan was asked to comment on the current state of productivity as it relates to health, absence, and disability in the workplace. The Work Loss Data Institute focuses on workplace health and productivity. -
In brief: AHA shares successful work force strategies
The Chicago-based American Hospital Association has published another 135 examples of strategies that are helping hospitals and health systems recruit and retain needed employees.