Workforce protection

The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Workforce Protections recently held hearings on a proposed appropriations bill that Public Citizen says would further restrict OSHA s rulemaking abilities. 

Barab, J. 2012, June 28. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor testimony before the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, https // www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show document p tahle=TESTIMONIES p id=1542, downloaded May 11, 2014. 

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McAteer,]. D. (1995). Statement of J. Davitt McAteer, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health, Submitted to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the Eco-niimic and Educational Opportunities Committee of the United States House of Representatives on H.R. 1834, the Safety and Health Improvement and Regulatory Reform Act of 1995. On-line (p. 6,. sec. 1). Available http //www.msha.gov/MEDlA/CONGRESS/ CT950901.HTM. 

Extensive available level sites have sometimes previously accommodated gas works, chemical works, munitions factories, or industrial or domestic refuse tips. These sites require special consideration as regards protection of the stmcture to be built, the constmction workforce and the building occupants. 

The methods of behavioral science can be used to reduce violations. Specially trained members of the workforce keep their eyes open and tactfully draw the attention of fellow workers to violations such as failures to wear protective clothing. These techniques can reduce the incidence of everyday accidents, but they have little or no influence on process safety. 

Sustainability overall objective for human beings formulated by the United Nations in the 1990s is to ensure sustainable development for future generations chemical companies have already started to translate this objective into their industry practice with respects to products developed and sold, energy and natural resource efficiency in their processes, climate protection, corporate social responsibility for the workforce as well as stakeholders in production and consuming areas sustainability as an objective also already inspired operations research and supply chain literature (see for example Zhou et al. 2000 Al-Sharrah et al. 2002)... 

Finding 1. Consistent with the Stockpile Committee s prior recommendation that the CSDP use technology that will minimize overall risk to the public and to the workers at each site, protecting the health and wellbeing of the workforce at chemical agent disposal facilities is an overarching priority, on a par with protection of the public health and safety. 

The company s employees surpassed eight million working hours without a lost-time accident since 2003. WCNOC regularly produces and updates emergency plans to protect the health and safety of its workforce. 

Business Associate Contract. When a covered entity uses a contractor or other non workforce member to perform business associate services or activities, the Rule requires that the covered entity include certain protections for the information in a business associate agreement (in certain circumstances governmental entities may use alternative means to achieve the same protections). In the business associate contract, a covered entity must impose specified written safeguards on the individually identifiable health information used or disclosed by its business associates. Moreover, a covered entity may not contractually authorize its business associate to make any use or disclosure of protected health information that would violate the Rule [DHHS, 2003b],... 

Labor activist Tony Mazzocchi of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers organized a series of public forums, giving workers a platform for testifying about hazardous conditions in the industrial workplace. Mazzocchi compiled a formal record of the forums, to pressure Congress to enact the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). In 1970, OSHA became the first federal law aimed at protecting the health of the nation s workforce. 

Finocchio, L.J. Dower, C.M. Blick, N.T. Gragnola, CM. Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation. Strengthening Consumer Protection Priorities far Health Care Workforce Regulation The Pew Health Professions Commission San Francisco, California, October 1998. 

Recommendation 1. The destruction of aging chemical munitions should proceed as quickly as possible, consistent with operational activities designed to protect the health and safety of the workforce, the public, and the environment,... 

The covered entity s workforce can use protected health information to identify and contact prospective research subjects. The covered entity s health care provider can discuss the enrollment in a clinical trial with a potential subject before authorization is completed or there has been an Institutional Review Board or Privacy Board waiver of authorization. A clinician may use or disclose the PHI if such information is being used to treat the subject or using an experimental treatment that may benefit a subject. However, at no time can the research health care provider remove the protected data from the covered entity s site according to the HIPAA requirements. 

California s economic future depends significantly on the quality of our environment. We face serious environmental challenges, which have a profound impact on public health and the economy. Jobs vs. the environment is a false choice. Overwhelming evidence demonstrates that clean air and water result in a more productive workforce, and a healthier economy, which will contribute to a balanced state budget. Moreover, it is children who suffer disproportionate impacts of environmental toxins. Studies show that children who live near freeways, for example, suffer significantly higher asthma rates and learning disabilities. This administration will protect and restore California s air, water and landscapes so that all the people of California can enjoy the natural beauty that is California. 

Cut flowers are also treated with a number of different pesticides, fungicides and fumigants to ensure blemish-free blooms. These chemicals create health problems in many of the countries where the flowers are intensively grown, both for the workforces who may not be properly protected as they work, and in the wider environment where the harmful chemicals can contaminate waterways. 

An amber zone / area exists if the AGW is exceeded (the tolerable zone / area), Here a health risk must be assumed for the exposed workforce. To continue work under these conditions requires additional measures (like personal protective equipment) and an authorisation from the surveillance authority is necessary. 

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