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Working as a flight crewmember can put a pregnancy at risk, particularly during the first trimester, notes the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). NIOSH points to three hazards that could imperil a pregnancy—circadian rhythm disruption (jet lag) or shiftwork, physical job demands, and cosmic ionizing radiation.
It’s hard to believe, but flu season is almost upon us once again. To discuss the issues surrounding the flu and what you can do to help protect the health of your workers, we have a Q&A with Jocelyn Sivalingam, M.D., F.A.C.P., Medical Director at West’s Health Advocate Solutions.
There are many reasons that companies institute policies to promote employee safety, including legal or regulatory reasons, strengthening their culture of safety, optimizing employee productivity, or for purely altruistic reasons. But outside of the workplace, can and should your company encourage off-duty safety?
A National Safety Council (NSC) survey found that 90% of America’s employers have been negatively impacted by tired employees, with one-half saying they’ve had an employee fall asleep on the job. 57% of employers have experienced absenteeism, and another 32% report injuries and near-misses due to fatigued employees.
June is National Safety Month, an observance organized by the National Safety Council (NSC) with the goal of raising awareness of the leading causes of injury and death both on and off the job. For Week 2, the NSC is focusing on wellness, which includes fatigue, substance abuse, and other issues affecting worker health on […]
As technology advances, the number of people performing sedentary work as well as the amount of sedentary work performed per person increases. Too much sedentary work can have serious adverse health effects, including obesity, musculoskeletal pain, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, particularly if it is combined with sedentary leisure. This is not new information, […]
A new report from the Campbell Institute at the National Safety Council indicates not all employers are getting worker wellbeing right … and it could actually be affecting the sustainability of their business.
In this episode we’re focusing on the health part of EHS—mental health, to be specific. The mental health of employees at your organization is an important factor affecting everything from the company’s efficiency to the likelihood of a violent incident. Unfortunately, it’s also a factor that is all too easily overlooked. Employee assistance programs, or […]
Sometimes it seems like everybody’s blowing smoke about e-cigarettes: this one says it entices young people to try tobacco; that one swears it helped him give up the “cancer-sticks” for good. Who’s right? And what implications does that have for the vaping policies and smoking-cessation programs in your workplace?
State and local governments have been tightening the noose on tobacco for decades now—and employers, eager to reduce health costs and sick days and increase attendance and productivity, started with banning smoking in most workplaces and then added employer-sponsored smoking cessation programs to the mix. Then, just when it seemed that the whole endeavor was […]