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Your genetic information could save your life. Women who have been screened for the genetic mutations that increase their susceptibility to breast cancer—BRCA1 and BRCA2—can opt for more frequent screenings and preventive treatments. For patients who have cancer, genetic testing can help guide their therapeutic choices.
A detailed look into how the EPA would achieve a 31 percent reduction in its annual budget is provided in a memo from David A. Bloom, the Agency’s acting chief financial officer, to top Agency officials. The memo was intended to be confidential but became available on the Internet.
A construction company must pay fines issued by Alaska OSHA in a trench collapse that took the life of an employee in a grisly trenching accident.
The controversy over individuals’ genetic information, their privacy, and the possibility of discrimination reared its head again in March, when the Republican-controlled House Committee on Education and the Workforce approved H.R. 1313 –Preserving Employee Wellness Programs Act. The bill, if it survives, is expected to be included in the Republicans’ larger repeal and replacement of […]
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wasted no time releasing the details of the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) plan to comply with President Donald Trump’s Executive Order (EO) on energy (Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth).
Ridding your workplace of drug and alcohol abuse can benefit your business and your employees in a variety of ways. If you haven’t looked at your policy in a while, you may be missing key elements.
EPA Will Reconsider Legal Issues After taking over at the EPA, Administrator Scott Pruitt took less than 3 weeks to grant an industry petition to delay implementation of ex-President Barack Obama’s EPA’s final amendments to the Agency’s Risk Management Program (RMP) (January 13, 2017, Federal Register (FR)). Calling themselves the RMP Coalition, the petitioners comprise […]
How much is lost productivity due to workplace injuries and chronic health conditions costing you? Newly published research from California-based Integrated Benefits Institute and at the Colorado School of Public Health in Denver, Colorado, shows it could be a hefty sum. Based on their data, the researchers estimated that for a company with 5,000 full-time […]
Why is the former second in command at OSHA publishing news about serious OSHA enforcement cases? Keep reading to learn more.
Which came first? The chronic health condition or the occupational injury? Are workers who suffer from chronic health conditions like obesity more prone to cumulative trauma disorders—or is it the other way around? How do the demands of the job affect both the condition and the injury? And what is the overall effect on absenteeism, […]