Occupational Health Management Archives – July 1, 2008
July 1, 2008
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ROI for wellness programs is $176 per employee: This data could save your job
Health care costs reduced $176 for every employee - a savings of $1.65 for every dollar spent on a comprehensive wellness program. -
Diabetic employees get big results from novel program
How would you like to boast that one of your company's wellness programs got these results for diabetics: A 21% increase in employees achieving the American Diabetes Association goal of an A1C level under 7.0, an increase from 43.8% to 57.7% in participants meeting National Cholesterol Education Program goals for LDL cholesterol, and a 15.7% increase in the number of employees meeting recognized goals for systolic blood pressure? -
Get employees to exercise and work at the same time
Even if you offer a variety of costly programs to get employees to exercise, participation is probably not what you wish for. -
OSHA proposes a formula for pandemic stockpiles
For the first time, newly proposed guidance puts a number and a cost to the respirators needed to protect health care workers during an influenza pandemic: 480 respirators at a cost of about $240 to protect a single employee, or a single reusable elastomeric respirator with three filters at a cost of $40 per employee. -
Rubber meets the road: The push for latex safety
It has been 10 years since Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore created a latex task force to address the growing numbers of latex-sensitive employees. -
Key to safety: Creating the right work culture
Are your employees too busy to be safe? Too stuck in their old way of doing things to use new safety equipment? -
News Brief: Study: GERD has big impact on productivity
Forty-one percent more sick days, 59% more short-term disability days, 39% more long-term disability days, 48% more workers' compensation days, and 6% lower annual productivity.