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Joint Labor and Environmental Networks’ Chemical Disaster Prevention Recommendations to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
Joint Labor and Environmental Networks’ Chemical Disaster Prevention Recommendations to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
More than 180 preventable incidents at hazardous chemicals facilities occur each year, resulting in deaths, injuries, evac...
Corrigendum to Introduction to the Special Issue: Opioids and the Workplace—Risk Factors and Solutions
Corrigendum to Introduction to the Special Issue: Opioids and the Workplace—Risk Factors and Solutions
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Workplace Violence: The Hidden Epidemic Plaguing Health Care Workers
Workplace Violence: The Hidden Epidemic Plaguing Health Care Workers
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HIV and TB Workplace Program for Street Vendors: A Situational Analysis
HIV and TB Workplace Program for Street Vendors: A Situational Analysis
In South Africa, 15 percent of informal economy workers are street vendors. The organization of occupational health servic...
Recognizing careworkers’ contributions to improving the social determinants of health: A call for supporting healthy carework
Recognizing careworkers’ contributions to improving the social determinants of health: A call for supporting healthy carework
Workers engaged in reproductive labor—the caring work that maintains society and supports its growth—contribute to societa...
Forgotten Front Line: Understanding the Needs of Unionized Home Health Aides in Downstate New York During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Forgotten Front Line: Understanding the Needs of Unionized Home Health Aides in Downstate New York During the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, home health aides (HHAs) provided daily medical and personal care...
Truer Facts Through Stronger Values: Confronting Science's Sociopolitical Realities
Truer Facts Through Stronger Values: Confronting Science's Sociopolitical Realities
Assaults on science have led scientists to demand “politics-free/values-free” science that safeguards science against erro...
Environmental Injustice and Industrial Chicken Farming in Delaware
Environmental Injustice and Industrial Chicken Farming in Delaware
Potential disparities in the distribution of poultry CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) and meat-processing facili...
Language Accommodations in Workers’ Compensation: Comparing Ontario and Quebec
Language Accommodations in Workers’ Compensation: Comparing Ontario and Quebec
Workers who experience language barriers are more likely to get injured or sick because of their work and have poorer clai...
Asbestos Removal Acceleration for New Jobs and Fossil Fuel Use Reduction for Public Health and Climate Readiness: A Contribution to the Revival of the Italian Economy Post-COVID-19
Asbestos Removal Acceleration for New Jobs and Fossil Fuel Use Reduction for Public Health and Climate Readiness: A Contribution to the Revival of the Italian Economy Post-COVID-19
The Italian economy has been battered by the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic. European Union and Italian government economic ...
Centuries of Exploitation in the Coalfields of Appalachia
Centuries of Exploitation in the Coalfields of Appalachia
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Opioids and the Workplace - Risk Factors and Solutions
Introduction to the Special Issue: Opioids and the Workplace - Risk Factors and Solutions
The workplace has been a neglected element in the national response to the opioid crisis. This ignores that workplace safe...
The Promise and Limitations of Worker Centers
The Promise and Limitations of Worker Centers
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The Intersectionality of Activism and Public Health in New York State: Can Labor/Health and Safety Move Addiction Recovery Forward?
The Intersectionality of Activism and Public Health in New York State: Can Labor/Health and Safety Move Addiction Recovery Forward?
People affected by overdose deaths are advocating for prevention and increased access to treatment. Activist coalitions ch...
Introduction to the Special Issue: Opioids and the Workplace—Urgent Action Needed
Introduction to the Special Issue: Opioids and the Workplace—Urgent Action Needed
The workplace has been a neglected element in the national response to the opioid crisis. This ignores that workplace safe...
Workplace Support for Employees in Recovery From Opioid Use: Stakeholder Perspectives
Workplace Support for Employees in Recovery From Opioid Use: Stakeholder Perspectives
The dual challenges of COVID-19 and the opioid epidemic have heightened the need of Maryland workplaces for accessible res...
It Is Time to Implement Primary Prevention in the Workplace to Ameliorate the Ongoing U.S. Opioid Epidemic
It Is Time to Implement Primary Prevention in the Workplace to Ameliorate the Ongoing U.S. Opioid Epidemic
The United States’ opioid public health crisis continues having disastrous consequences on communities, including workers ...
NIOSH Responds to the U.S. Drug Overdose Epidemic
NIOSH Responds to the U.S. Drug Overdose Epidemic
The United States is experiencing an evolving and worsening drug overdose epidemic. Although the rate of drug use among wo...
On the Front Lines: The Impact of Managerialism on the New York City Addiction Treatment Workforce
On the Front Lines: The Impact of Managerialism on the New York City Addiction Treatment Workforce
Since the mid-1970s, neoliberal policies have relied on privatization and other tactics to down-size the state, transformi...
Occupational Safety and Health and Illicit Opioids: State of the Research on Protecting Against the Threat of Occupational Exposure
Occupational Safety and Health and Illicit Opioids: State of the Research on Protecting Against the Threat of Occupational Exposure
The nationwide opioid crisis continues to affect not only people who use opioids but also communities at large by increasi...
Development of Novel Video-Based First Responder Opioid Hazard Refresher Training
Development of Novel Video-Based First Responder Opioid Hazard Refresher Training
First responders encounter many hazards in the execution of their duties, and exposure to hazardous materials such as opio...
Trading One Risk for Another: Consequences of the Unauthenticated Treatment and Prevention of Silicosis in Ontario Miners in the McIntyre Powder Aluminum Inhalation Program
Trading One Risk for Another: Consequences of the Unauthenticated Treatment and Prevention of Silicosis in Ontario Miners in the McIntyre Powder Aluminum Inhalation Program
From 1943 to 1979, miners and factory workers in more than two hundred work sites globally were subjected to mandatory med...
Establishing Standards for the Assessment and Decontamination Cleanup of Opioid-Contaminated Properties
Establishing Standards for the Assessment and Decontamination Cleanup of Opioid-Contaminated Properties
A case is described where a property was used as a clandestine opioid (fentanyl and carfentanil) processing, handling, pil...
Comprehensive Workplace Policies and Practices Regarding Employee Opioid Use
Comprehensive Workplace Policies and Practices Regarding Employee Opioid Use
The workplace is a key environment to impact employees, families, and communities to prevent further opioid and substance ...
Answering a Call to Action on American Workplace and Community Opioid Concerns
Answering a Call to Action on American Workplace and Community Opioid Concerns
Leidos, Inc. is a large government science and technology company. When a Leidos employee lost his son to an opioid overdo...
Instructor Training on Opioids and the Workplace, Prevention and Response in the Plumbing and Pipe-Fitting Industry: An Interview With Cheryl Ambrose
Instructor Training on Opioids and the Workplace, Prevention and Response in the Plumbing and Pipe-Fitting Industry: An Interview With Cheryl Ambrose
Workers in the plumbing and pipe-fitting industry experience a wide variety of physical and emotional pain related to job ...
Development of a Data Visualization Tool for Occupational Exposure to Chemicals of Concern for Breast Cancer Among California Working Women, 2010–2014
Development of a Data Visualization Tool for Occupational Exposure to Chemicals of Concern for Breast Cancer Among California Working Women, 2010–2014
We identified the occupations that employ California women and a list of chemicals of concern for breast cancer. We evalua...
The Establishment of a Construction Union-Based Member Assistance Program: An Interview With Kyle Zimmer
The Establishment of a Construction Union-Based Member Assistance Program: An Interview With Kyle Zimmer
Kyle Zimmer is the health and safety director and Members Assistance Program director of the International Union of Operat...
Submission to the Australian Senate Select Committee on Job Security on the Impact of Insecure or Precarious Employment on the Economy, Wages, Social Cohesion, and Workplace Rights and Conditions
Submission to the Australian Senate Select Committee on Job Security on the Impact of Insecure or Precarious Employment on the Economy, Wages, Social Cohesion, and Workplace Rights and Conditions
The Australian Senate announced a Select Committee in December of 2020 “to inquire into and report on the impact of insecu...
A Public Health Approach to Protecting Workers from Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Related to Occupational Exposure, Injury, and Stress: APHA Policy Statement Number 202012, Issued October 24, 2020
A Public Health Approach to Protecting Workers from Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Related to Occupational Exposure, Injury, and Stress: APHA Policy Statement Number 202012, Issued October 24, 2020
Opioid overdose mortality, in combination with increased deaths from alcohol and suicide, is having a profound impact on A...
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