Occupational Health Management Archives – May 1, 2008
May 1, 2008
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Part-time and temporary workers are at much higher risk for injury illness
If an employee is morbidly obese, drug-impaired, or chronically sleep-deprived, you would probably suspect that this individual is at greater risk for injury or illness in the workplace. But what if the worker is part-time or hired on a temporary basis? -
Occ health programs and key business objectives
This is the second part of a three-part series on using financial data to demonstrate the value of occupational health programs. This month, we explore how to show that occupational health programs impact business objectives. -
Study: Employees don't know their cholesterol levels
One in six Americans, which is almost 36 million people, have never had their cholesterol checked, according to new statistics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). -
Bioterror drill goes awry, lab workers are exposed
An exercise designed to test laboratory readiness for a bioterrorism incident turned into a real-life disaster of another sort when specimen mislabeling and flagrant breaches in infection control resulted in several exposures to an attenuated vaccine strain of Brucella abortus RB51, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports (CDC). -
Poor TST readings lead to false positives
In the world of tuberculosis screening, sometimes an unfortunate series of events leads down the path toward inappropriate treatment. Consider this real-life scenario: the antigen had changed; the tuberculin skin test (TST) reader was inexperienced; and the employees, in this case firefighters, were in a low-risk community in Mississippi. -
Lifts and liability: Avoid workers' comp claims
The moment a nurse tries to help a heavy-set, medically fragile patient stand and walk is fraught with risk. With one miscalculation, the patient can fall, and the nurse or the patient - or both - might be seriously injured. Workers' compensation claims may be expensive and annoying.