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In an influenza pandemic, health care workers might find their respirators difficult to tolerate for long hours. Without additional training, they also are likely to forget how to don the respirator properly or even which respirator model they should wear.
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When a local public health department in California opened packages of FluVirin pre-filled syringes to start the flu immunization campaign, the vaccine administrators were stunned. Contrary to federal law and regulation, the syringes had a fixed needle with no safety device.
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As an occupational health professional, you need to have skills and competencies in clinical and primary care, case management, environmental issues, regulatory and legislative issues, disease prevention, and health promotion.
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Have you been given an expanded safety role in your organization? If so, your first step should be to analyze the top loss drivers by frequency and severity, according to Christine R. Zichello, RN, COHN-S, CSHM, ARM, FAAOHN, senior risk control specialist at PMA Companies' Mount Laurel, NJ, branch office. Armed with this information, Zichello says you can "drill down" to establish an action plan for each loss driver.
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When asking for resources for an occupational health initiative, you need to prepare a realistic program with solid goals and objectives; otherwise, you risk the program failing and your credibility diminished.
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Will an employee suffer from long-term disability after a back injury? The answer depends on many factors, according to a recent study.
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Night shift workers often are reluctant to sleep days on a strict schedule, even on their days off, and a new study indicates they might not need to.
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How can you aid shift workers to help their body clock adjust to the night shift? The answer depends on the individual worker and the type of shift work being done, according to Mark Smith, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Rush University Biological Rhythms Research Lab in Chicago.
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A study from the psychology department at Tufts University shows that when dieters eliminate carbohydrates from their meals, they performed more poorly on memory-based tasks than when they reduce calories, but maintain carbohydrates. When carbohydrates were reintroduced, cognition skills returned to normal.
