As we mark the five year anniversary of Super Storm Sandy, the northeast now has an estimated 1,000,000 homes and businesses without power. The passing of the latest storm is a big relief for the northeast U.S., but now the cleanup begins and that ca...

The first date in OSHA’s Global Harmonization Standard (GHS) is coming up before you know it.  OSHA is requiring that employees are trained on the new label elements (i.e., pictograms, hazard statements, precautionary statements, and signa...

Deadly Falls "Up" How can a fall "up" be deadly?  How can you fall "up" anyway? This post isn't about falling up at all, actually. It's about the fact that from 2003 to 2006 fatalities from falls have increased. It's an alarming statistic that c...

The American Academy of Ophthalmology has designated October as Eye Injury Prevention Month. Did you know that nearly half of all eye injuries occur in and around the home? Eye injuries are extremely debilitating regardless of how they occur. You cou...

MEMIC’s relentless dedication to safety has led to a 30% decrease in workplace injuries in Maine since its inception. MEMIC is now announcing an ambitious project to get the last 70%. “Any workplace injury is one too many. Hard hats, stee...

Proper lifting is one approach to reducing back injuries in a manual material lifting environment.  But before we discuss proper lifting, let’s first ask a question: Does this lift need to occur at all? Lifts from the floor, for instance, ...

As a fan of most music genres, especially alternative and classic rock, several song titles come to mind that I believe fit nicely with the topic of office ergonomics.  Unlike the Billboard Top 100, these 12 songs are not ranked in any particula...

You don’t have to wander into a spooky forest to encounter the likes of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and Clostridium difficile (C. diff).  These antibiotic resistant organisms ...

Hippocrates, whose oath physicians still hold sacred, once said, “A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.”          At long last, employers appear to be recogni...

Nurses Say Needlesticks Huge Concern A 2008 survey conducted by the American Nurses Association says needlesticks are a serious concern for the nursing industry. Sixty-four percent of the 700 nurses surveyed said that needlestick injuries and exposur...