The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act final rule includes an industrial hygienist because an IH’s observations and skills are rooted at the workplace. IHs are trained to use the hierarchy of controls to achieve reasonable accommodation for pregnant workers.
Full article: EHS Pros Should Have Ethical Duty to Understand All Laws Regarding Worker Safety
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EEOC’s final rule and interpretive guidance for implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act was published in the April 19, 2024 Federal Register.
Full article: Epilog for Pregnant Workers Fairness Act’s final rules
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Who is more empathetic e.g., better able to recognize pain in a person’s face, a professional industrial hygienist, or a professional historian? A person’s empathy capacity may be partly determined by Empathy Quotient (EQ) scores.
Full article: Leaders with empathy are valuable
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Industrial hygiene began as a medical specialty in the early 1900s. Scope creep among OHS pros is occurring now and will expand in the future, too. The challenge for OHS pros, and others, is to know when to expand or establish limits of OHS capabilities.
Full article: Scope creep: Expand or establish limits of industrial hygiene capability?
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Expenses are an unavoidable reality and the cost of doing business. The trick is to pick the right things to spend money on, to maximize revenue and minimize cost.
Full article: Invest in your workers
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The court ruled in Roe that, “A person may choose to have an abortion until a fetus becomes viable, based on the right to privacy contained in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Full article: The impact of overturn of Roe v Wade on workplaces
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How humans and other animals detect odors is an intriguing topic. Each OHS pro should understand the basics of how to interpret chemical exposures.
Full article: What’s that smell? Odor management should be part of your OHS program
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The Great Resignation, Big Quit, and Big Strike are just a few of the terms used to describe the phenomenon of the large number of people who, during Covid times, took drastic actions to remedy dissatisfaction with their job.
Full article: The great resignation: What is a job’s purpose and how does this affect OHS pros?
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Understanding macroeconomics is helpful as you advance in your OHS career. Macroeconomics is the big picture evaluation of how an economy works based upon numerous influences at the local, regional, and global levels.
Full article: Macroeconomics is key to OHS
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Rich economies need women to work. But women present a special health and safety risk at work when they become pregnant. How do rich economies manage this risk?
Full article: Politics surround Pregnant Workers Act
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