The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 provides legislative authority for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the Department of Labor, “to set standards which most adequately assure, to the extent feasible on the basis of the best available evidence, that no employee will suffer material impairment of health or functional capacity even if such employee has regula...

Asbestos is a generic term used to refer to a group of mineral forms that share a unique set of physical properties. Today, the six mineral structures now identified by OSHA and by the mineralogical definition as ‘‘asbestos’’ are those currently regulated in the United States and those that all industries governed by OSHA must keep within permissible exposure limits set out by the agency’s regu...

8. Radonovich LJ, Cheng J, Shenal BV, Hodgson M, Bender BS. Respirator tolerance in health care workers. JAMA 2009; 301:36-38. 9. United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Occupational safety and health standards: bloodborne pathogens, final rule. 29 CFR § 1910.1030. Washington, DC: United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Adminis...

Occupational safety and health faculty and occupational safety and health professionals were surveyed to determine the considerations for a distance education-based graduate occupational safety and health program from the perspective of faculty and occupational safety and health professionals. Adequate time is the largest issue for potential students. Faculty need to be sufficiently trained in ...

The management of occupational health and safety (OHS) including safety culture interventions is comprised of complex problems that are often hard to scope and define. Due to the dynamic nature and complexity of OHS management, the concept of system dynamics (SD) is used to analyze accident prevention. In this paper, a system dynamics group model building (GMB) approach is used to create a caus...

Using the results of psychophysical and biomechanical experiments, NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) Recommended Weight Limit (RWL), the Lifting Index (LI), the form of the asymmetry multiplier, and the criterion for compression force were investigated. Analysis of the results indicated a significant difference between the NIOSH RWL and the reported Maximum Acceptabl...

To meet state and OSHA requirements for dealing with and reporting workplace violence, a growing number of hospitals, the author reports, are turning to baseline workplace violence assessments which survey employees in different roles, combined with a threat analysis and an analysis of existing controls and historical incidents that can be reviewed and tracked over time to show improvement or d...

This commentary responds to the recent critique by Weinstock and Slatin [1] of our systematic review on the effectiveness of occupational safety and health (OSH) training conducted jointly by the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) in Canada and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in the United States [2, 3]. We address misunderstandings of our perspectives on traini...

background occupational accidents are a major problem in industries and work environments. objectives this study aimed to study the relationship between workers' life quality and occupational accidents. materials and methods this historical cohort study was conducted on 114 wood industry workers (living in the north of iran) involved in a job related accident over the past 10 years. among those...