Manufacturers don’t usually have to disclose what’s in products like shampoo and household cleaners, but a new study finds that these products can contain hazardous ingredients.
On April 28, Canadians remember and honour those who have been killed or suffered injuries or illness at work.
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Telling others about an autism diagnosis can lead to understanding and support, but it also exposes the Autistic person to greater risks of discrimination and bullying.
Work-related safety precautions can lead to riskier behaviors on the job.
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If you feel safer, you might take more risks – canceling out the benefits of various safety interventions. But educating people about this paradox and allowing for some personal choice might help.
Children are among waste pickers exposed to hazards while working at the Olusosun landfill. Photo by: Lionel Healing/AFP.
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Employing children as waste pickers lowers costs but exposes them to hazards.
Building safer workplaces requires leaders who understand how years of resource constraints, unhealthy work environments, abuse from patients and a pandemic have contributed to overwhelming burnout and job dissatisfaction among workers.
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The future of our health system depends on recruiting and retaining passionate and highly skilled health-care workers. It’s essential to build work environments where they feel supported and safe.
Young workers are particularly vulnerable in the workplace because they tend to do short-term work, often lack training and safety education, and may see injury as just “part of the job.”
Creative sentencing uses funds to promote better workplace safety, like better industry training, instead of paying punitive fines.
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We reviewed hundreds of documents and reports on workplace safety in Amazon warehouses.
Many workplace fitness facilities — like standing desks, on-site gyms and showers, and easy access to walking paths — are mostly available to white-collar, higher-income workers who already face fewer barriers to exercise outside of work.
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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.
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.
Nearly 1,000 workers at this Smithfield Foods pork-processing plant in South Dakota contracted COVID-19 between mid-March and mid-April 2020.
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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.
A lifeguard disinfects mattresses used to slide down a water slide in Bromont, Que., in June 2020 as water parks reopened in the province.
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The coronavirus pandemic highlights the importance of ensuring safe workspaces, and a new study suggests unionization leads workers to speak up about poor conditions.
A large cargo ship waiting to be scrapped in Alang, India.
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