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2008 Annual Report: no cutting back on health and safety, warns Agency head
Writing in the Agency’s Annual Report for 2008, Jukka Takala argues that companies should think carefully before cutting back on their investment in occupational safety and health (OSH), in the face of global recession. “There is no point in making short-term gains at the cost of long-term problems”, he writes. “All of our work shows that the more healthy workplaces are, the more productive they also tend to be.”
EU-OSHA’s mission is to make Europe a safer, healthier and more productive place to work, by collecting and disseminating information on OSH, and examples of good practice. Its activities ... |
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Mesothelioma patients may benefit from new imaging software
According to recently published findings in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, researchers at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute’s National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers (NCVAC) have found a probable reason for chest pain associated with asbestos-related diseases.
Michael Harbut, co-director of the NCVAC and chief of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, reported the results after analyzing a patient who was exposed to taconite dust as a child. Taconite, similar to asbestiform minerals, is a silicate mineral found ... |
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