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To get more workers to be active, public health messaging must recognize the important role employers can play in creating the conditions for workers to focus on exercise.
A recent survey reveals only limited employee support for workplace vaccine mandates, underlining how challenging the policy will be for lawmakers and employers.
Employers need to go beyond the public health orders to ensure their workers are safe from COVID. Here are four key areas to focus on.
Research charting women’s political careers from the moment they are first interested shows they experience abuse at each stage — and this forces some to abandon their ambitions.
Thousands of workers at meat- and poultry-processing plants have contracted COVID-19, and hundreds have died. A legal scholar recommends ways to make their jobs safer.
British meat processing plants are experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks, but there’s a shortage of statistics in the public domain.
Clear and consistent safety messaging in workplaces is imperative for employees both young and old.
The coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of ensuring safe workspaces, and a new study suggests unionization leads workers to speak up about poor conditions.
Shipbreaking is one of the world’s most dangerous jobs – but it doesn’t have to be.
Don’t think you’re alone when working from home - the typical office desk has more than 10 million bacteria. Here’s how to stop your WFH setup leaving you needing sick leave.
It causes fever, a dry cough, shortness of breath. Outbreaks are frequently deadly. It’s not COVID-19, and it could be waiting in your workplace after lockdown.
COVID-19 outbreaks have occurred at more than 100 US meatpacking plants. Geography, workforce demographics and economic concentration make it hard for workers to fight for better conditions.
The open-plan, shared office may be a thing of the past if physical distancing and stricter hygiene become the new normal.
Working from home changes your relationship with your workplace, but not the obligations you and your employer owe each other.
A reduction in OSHA inspectors may lead to a reduction in workplace safety.
The technician who gave you that shiny manicure may be inhaling dangerous levels of toxic chemicals on the job.
The industry relies on traditional family knowledge so it has been resistant to a culture of health and safety.
The legalization of cannabis has started a discussion about on-the-job impairment. But drugs are not the only problem. Engineers should design workplaces that minimize the potential for human error.
Simply having an offence of industrial manslaughter on the statute books cannot by itself lower workplace death rates.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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