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Flu Vaccination & Vaccine Safety
Seasonal flu vaccines have a very good safety track record. AVAILABILITY The flu vaccine is available by shot or nasal spray. Get your flu shot or spray as soon as the vaccine is available in your...
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What Makes a Good Supervisor?
The main qualities required are: Great communication skills: As a supervisor one must communicate clearly and correctly to avoid misunderstandings and frustrations. When receiving information from a...
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Halloween Health and Safety Tips
Fall celebrations like Halloween are fun times for children, who can dress up in costumes, enjoy parties, and eat yummy treats. These celebrations also provide a chance to give out healthy snacks, get...
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Prevent Slips, Trips and Falls at Work
Here are six guidelines to help you create a safer working environment for you and your employees. 1) Create Good Housekeeping Practices Good housekeeping is critical. Safety and housekeeping go...
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Antibiotic Resistance Can Be Deadly
Antibiotics and similar drugs, together called antimicrobial agents, have been used for the last 70 years to treat patients who have infectious diseases. Since the 1940s, these drugs have greatly...
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Injury & Illness Investigation
When a work-related injury or illness occurs it is important to investigate the reasons why it happened so we can suggest changes to prevent a similar incident from happening again. Most injuries and...
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Health Effects of Chronic Sleep Deprivation
The consequences of sleep deprivation. In the short term: Decreased Performance and Alertness: Sleep deprivation induces significant reductions in performance and alertness. Reducing your nighttime...
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Combining Safety & Wellness = Total Worker Health
Today, emerging evidence recognizes that both work-related factors and health factors beyond the workplace jointly contribute to many safety and health problems that confront today’s workers and their...
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How to Have a Stress Free Holiday Season
The holidays are officially here and the season for giving begins. It’s a wonderful time of year, but with all the activities, excitement and family obligations taking place at once, it’s easy to feel...
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Employer Healthcare Focus of the Future
We, as Americans, have created the best healthcare system in the history of the world. But this “best” system faces some daunting challenges. The current employer must rethink their healthcare focus...
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Helping a Smoker Quit: Do’s and Don’ts
I quit smoking 30 years ago after my father had his first heart attack at age 50. To quit was not easy but since then I’ve enjoyed good health and saved thousand of dollars not buying cigarettes. Here...
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Before You Celebrate—Plan Ahead
Of course, we don’t intend to harm anyone when we get behind the wheel during the holiday season. Yet traffic fatalities persist and myths about drinking live on—even though scientific studies have...
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Embrace 4 Habits to Be An Effective Boss
To become a highly effective boss, embrace the following four habits: 1. Focus on improvement. Although it’s tempting to only scrutinize the numbers when measuring a company’s progress, qualitative...
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Winter Driving Safety
If you find yourself driving in the snow, stay alert, slow down and stay in control. These are the three key elements to safe driving in the snow. Here are a few other tips for driving in the snow: If...
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How Can Total Worker Health Help My Business or Workplace?
“Today leading companies have learned that because of lost workdays and diminished employee productivity, poor health costs them more than health benefits do.” Safe and healthy employees are less...
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10 Commandments of Firearm Safety
The Ten Commandments of Firearms Safety should be etched in your memory forever. Let them govern your actions wherever and whenever you’re involved with firearms. In the woods. On the range. Or in your...
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The Perils of Workers Comp Claim Handing in Silo’s
The overlapping and often conflicting requirements of ADA, FMLA, Workers’ Comp and a plethora of state laws are an administrative nightmare. There are differences in eligibility, leave lengths, job...
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Heating Safety Tips
Heating equipment is a leading cause of home fire deaths. Half of home heating equipment fires are reported during the months of December, January, and February. Some simple steps can prevent most...
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Why Behavior Change is Hard
According to one widely used theory (the transtheoretical model of behavior change), change occurs in five stages. Each stage is necessary before you can successfully move to the next, and stages can’t...
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Prevent Snowblowing Injuries
Tips for Snowblowing Never stick your hands in the snowblower! If snow jams the snowblower, stop the engine and wait more than 5 seconds. Use a solid object to clear wet snow or debris from the chute....
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