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Moms-to-be smoke less after workplace smoking ban (Reuters)
Wed Nov 25 13:42:33 PST 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ireland's implementation of a workplace smoking ban in 2004 appears tied to a decline in maternal smoking rates as well as lower risk for preterm births, study findings hint.
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Trenton man victim of fatal workplace accident (The News)
Wed Nov 25 19:28:52 PST 2009
NEW GLASGOW – A 59-year-old Trenton man was the victim of a fatal workplace accident Tuesday evening.
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Designing for Health: The Age Factor--Energizing the Healthcare Workplace (Contract Magazine)
Sat Nov 21 20:27:18 PST 2009
"Designing for Health" is a monthly, Web-exclusive series from healthcare interior design leaders at Perkins+Will that focuses on the issues, trends, challenges, and research involved in crafting today's healing environments. This month's article focuses on age in the healthcare workplace.
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Management & Leadership (BusinessWeek)
Wed Nov 25 14:26:11 PST 2009
Gentlemen: Don't hold in your anger at work. Let it out, says a new study that originally appeared in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. A team of Swedish researchers found that men who suppress their anger in the workplace are...
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Health care firm moves to downtown Columbia (The State)
Tue Nov 24 19:07:23 PST 2009
HealthPort, an Atlanta-based health care company, this week completed a transfer of 140 employees from its Northeast Richland service center to Main Street in downtown Columbia, a company spokeswoman said.
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Library workers urged to participate in survey of workplace wellness in libraries (American Library Association)
Tue Nov 24 14:08:06 PST 2009
CHICAGO - The American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) and the ALA Office for Human Resource Development and Recruitment (HRDR) are encouraging library employees to participate in the 2009-2010 Library Workplace Wellness online survey . The survey provides an...
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Hyatt responds to "Hyatt Risk of Injury" (San Antonio Current)
Wed Nov 25 10:22:29 PST 2009
"The health and safety of associates in all positions at Hyatt are our highest priorities. While we take seriously all valid research regarding workplace safety, we have not had the opportunity to thoroughly review the data and design of the Unite Here study recently released to the media.
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Council to debate workplace smoking ban at Dec. 14 meeting (Maryville Daily Forum)
Wed Nov 25 13:42:17 PST 2009
After holding two public hearings and listening to the sometimes impassioned remarks of smokers, non-smokers, business owners, activists, barbers, bowlers, veterans, scholars, doctors and waitresses, the Maryville City Council will take up discussion Monday, Dec. 14, on a proposed ordinance to ban...
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Tyson and UFCW Mark Two Decades of Workplace Safety Progress (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Tue Nov 24 05:00:00 PST 2009
DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. -- The nation's leading meat processor and the country's largest union representing meatpacking and food processing workers have just completed the twentieth year of a workplace ergonomics program that is making meat processing jobs safer.
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GAO faults OSHA's workplace injury data collection system (Business Insurance)
Sun Nov 22 09:52:54 PST 2009
WASHINGTON—Workplace injury and illness data that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration uses to assess workplace safety may be inadequate, according to a report released last week by the Government Accountability Office.
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