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Editor’s Note: Work zone safety is ‘In Your Hands’

Editor Melissa J. Ruminski writes about construction work zone awareness.

What’s Your Opinion? Some members of Congress want to make OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs a permanent entity. Do you believe VPP is ‘sound policy’?

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Coffee, tea add-ins equal extra calories: study

Champaign, IL – Add sugars, milks, creams, flavored syrups or honey to your coffee or tea, and you’re adding calories that can lead to extra pounds, a recent study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign shows.

Promoting healthy eating at work

Has your workplace considered starting a healthy eating program? According to the Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety, “When a workplace can help employees to make wise food choices, as part of a workplace health program, it can influence the person’s long-term health and wellness.
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Fatigue and worker safety

Fatigue has been in the spotlight as a safety risk in the workplace. Experts say employers, as well as workers, play a role in combating the issue.

7 tips for an effective workplace safety committee

Safety+Health shares seven tips from veteran safety professionals Carl Potter and Richard Hawk on making safety committee meetings more enjoyable.

Safety Leadership: Decision-making and safer outcomes

Don Groover from DEKRA Insight discusses the challenge of "understanding what safe decision-making looks like and how to develop and deploy it systematically."

Editor’s Note: Coping with fatigue

Editor Melissa J. Ruminski writes about fatigue and the safety and health risk it presents to workers.
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What’s Your Opinion: Do you believe some individual workers are simply (and unintentionally) more injury-prone than others?

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Study of large companies finds nearly all workers at risk of stroke, heart disease

Baltimore – Health experts are calling for more research-based workplace wellness programs after a recent study showed that nearly all workers at 20 large companies face a heightened risk of heart disease and stroke due to high blood pressure, unhealthy diet, obesity and other risk factors.

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