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Jun 18, 2020

A Briggs & Stratton employee who pushed for more coronavirus restrictions in the workplace died from the virus

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(JSONLINE) In response to his death, Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of the immigrant and workers rights advocacy group Voce...
Jun 15, 2020

America fails the Covid-19 pandemic marshmallow test for society.

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( Paul Krugman ) One way to think about the Covid-19 pandemic is that it poses a kind of marshmallow test for society. At this poin...
Jun 14, 2020

Review of 16 cohorts found 40-45% of people who tested positive with RT-PCR using nasopharyngeal swabs are asymptomatic

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Review published in Annals of Internal Medicine https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-3012 and covered by Time   https://time.com/584...

EPA Adds More Indoor Air Quality Questions and Answers to our COVID-19 FAQ Webpage

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Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is on everyone's mind as we spend more time inside our homes. EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...

Free ACOEM Webinar on Prevention of COVID-19 in Construction Workers

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The ACOEM Webinar "Prevention of COVID-19 in Construction Workers" is posted at the link below.  It will be next Wednesday, June 1...
Jun 12, 2020

First Reported Cases of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Companion Animals

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What are the implications for public health practice? Human-to-animal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 can occasionally occur. Animals ar e ...

Trends in Pneumoconiosis Deaths — United States, 1999–2018

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What is already known about this topic? Pneumoconioses are a group of occupational lung diseases caused by inhaling organic dust and inorgan...
Jun 8, 2020

Respiratory protection for health care workers: A 2020 COVID‐19 perspective

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Abstract: As the US health care system began to respond to the coronavirus disease‐2019 pandemic, demand for respiratory personal protective...
Jun 5, 2020

Subject: US EPA Announces Anaerobic Digestion Funding Opportunity

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US EPA has announced a competitive grant funding opportunity with an estimated $3 million available to increase anaerobic digester (AD) capa...
Jun 1, 2020

OSHA Releases Summary List of Guidance Documents Taken to Protect Workers During COVID-19

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On May 28, 2020 OSHA released a comprehensive list of guidance documents, statements, and actions they've taken to help protect workers ...

CDC - Sobering statistics on COVID among Healthcare Personnels

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CDC released new statistics yesterday.   One of the more sobering for the health care community are the number of cases and the number of fa...
May 26, 2020

OSHA Will Examine if Employers Determined Whether Employee COVID-19 Cases are Work Related for Purposes of Recording Workplace Injury and Illnesses

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On May 19, 2019, OSHA issued another enforcement guidance memorandum ( https://www.osha.gov/memos/2020-05-19/revised-enforcement-guidance-re...
May 21, 2020

Department of Energy Announces $67 Million to Enhance Manufacturing Competitiveness Through Innovation

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced ...
May 20, 2020

News Release from OSHA: Revised Enforcement Policies For Coronavirus

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OSHA Department of Labor, United States of America   News Release WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety an...
May 15, 2020

Wisconsin Washington/Ozaukee Public Health Department “Blueprint for Reopening Washington and Ozaukee Counties”

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The Washington Ozaukee Public Health Department (WOPHD) released the "Blueprint for Reopening Washington and Ozaukee Counties" The...
May 11, 2020

New Chemical Accident Reporting Requirements

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This Operating Experience Level 3 (OE-3) document provides information on a new requirement imposed by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard I...
May 8, 2020

Complimentary Webinar Employer Workplace Prevention of COVID-19 Airborne Transmission

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Employer Workplace Prevention of COVID-19 Airborne Transmission: Applying OSHA's Hierarchy of Controls Maintain a safe work environment ...

35 years later, Bhopal gas leak failures resurface in Vizag

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In Vizag, the 11 deaths so far and hundreds of affected people in hospital indicate that styrene must have escaped in extremely high concent...
May 4, 2020

Solar and Wind Cheapest Sources of Power in Most of the World

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(BloomBerg) A decade ago, solar was more than $300 a megawatt-hour and onshore wind exceeded $100 per megawatt-hour. Today, onshore wind is...
Apr 29, 2020

Dr Michael Osterholm, head of CIDRAP, weekly podcasts on covid-19

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In case you haven't heard these, Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of CIDRAP (Univ of MN Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy...
Apr 27, 2020

Just released OSHA memo on decontaminating N95 respirators

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This memo was released by OSHA Friday evening..... https://www.osha.gov/memos/2020-04-24/enforcement-guidance-decontamination-filtering-face...
Apr 24, 2020

WEBINAR | COVID-19 and Your Workplace: Getting Back to Work Safely

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COVID-19 and Your Workplace: Getting Back to Work Safely Here are three simple questions: Does your organization have an updated infectious ...
Apr 22, 2020

EPA Publishes Scope Documents for 20 Risk Evaluation Chemicals

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(PAINT.ORG) This month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published 20 draft scope documents for high-priority chemicals underg...
Apr 17, 2020

New class action launched over Pfas toxic firefighting chemicals used by defense

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Lawyers have launched a new class action on behalf of tens of thousands of residents over the defense department's use of toxic firefigh...
Apr 14, 2020

U.S. Department of Labor Announces OSHA Interim Enforcement Response Plan to Protect Workers during the Coronavirus Pandemic

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OSHA – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today announced an interim enforcement respon...
Apr 9, 2020

Free CDC webinar on Elastomeric Respirators for U.S. Healthcare Delivery

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Here is a link to details about reusable elastomeric respirator use in healthcare. This includes findings and recommendations from a compila...
Apr 8, 2020

Risk based chart on when to use masks or respirators for Covid-19

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When to use masks or respirators for Covid-19 is confusing. Chart below suggests general concepts for selecting based on risk and protection...

OSHA Issues Guidance for Respirators Certified under Other Countries' Standards During COVID-19 Pandemic

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On Friday 4/3/2020, OSHA issued guidance that allows for use of some alternative respirators – see news release here: https://www.osha.gov/n...

Several Free ASSP podcasts on Covid19

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Listen to the latest podcast to learn how to assess your workers' COVID19 risk level and discover steps you can take to protect them. ht...
Apr 7, 2020

Department of Energy Announces New Funding to Train Emergency Response and Building Professionals

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The U.S. Department of Energy announced $4.5 million in funding for training programs for professionals who interact with distributed energy...

Chernobyl in Ukraine: Firefighters battling radioactive forest

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Emergency units are trying to contain fires in radiation-contaminated forest near the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant. The fires have caus...

CPAPs can be repurposed into ventilators.

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To my friends here in the health and medical fields please share that CPAPs can be repurposed into ventilators. A life line to many. Thank y...
Apr 2, 2020

Toxnet Occupational Health relational database information moved to Haz-Map.

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With the National Library of Medicine's decision to shutdown Toxnet much of its content moved to other NLM website, independent of NLM a...

Cancer risk among career firefighters are at increased risk for five cancers with typically stronger associations in those diagnosed younger than the age of 50

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Conclusion Male career firefighters in Florida are at increased risk for five cancers with typically stronger associations in those diagnose...

Good webinar from Duke about their massive program to decontaminate N95 filtering facepieces

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Good webinar from Duke about their massive program to decontaminate N95 filtering facepieces viewed here; https://vmw-oesoapps.duhs.duke.edu...