NIOSH Science Blog – Getting Closer to Understanding the Economic Burden of Occupational Injury and Illness. March 30th, 2012 10:00 am ET - Paul Schulte, PhD; Elyce Biddle, PhD; Frank J. Hearl, PE A recently published landmark paper by J. Paul Leigh (Milbank Quarterly 2011 89 (6):728-772 ) makes a significant contribution to understanding the economic burden of occupational illness and injury. The paper entitled “Economic Burden of Occupational Injury and Illness in the United States” shows that the annual direct and indirect costs are at least $250 billion. As Leigh notes, the cost of injury, illness, and death from these other diseases are generally easier to assess because they require a small number of primary data sources, typically 1 to 4. While the Leigh study is the most comprehensive analysis of the burden of occupational illness and injury in the U.S. ever conducted, the estimates, due to methodologic issues inherent in the data, still do not capture the full economic burden.
Dr. Dr. Mr. ::Maysville Community and Technical College: Safety for Life!:: Susan Harwood Training Grant Program The Susan Hardwood Training Grant Program provides funds for programs to train employees and employers to recognize, avoid, and prevent safety and health hazards in the workplace. The program emphasizes fours areas: Educating employees and employers in small businesses (less than 250 employees) Training employees and employers about new OSHA standards Training at-risk employer and employee populations Training employers and employees about high risk activities or hazards identified by OSHA Maysville Community and Technical College received a Susan Harwood grant in the amount of $140,379.00. Maysville Community and Technical College's (MCTC) proposed Susan Harwood Training Grant project will train employers and employees to recognize, avoid, and prevent safety and health hazards associated with residential and commercial roofing work in a 17-county region in northeastern Kentucky.
Fall Protection (1926.500) Electrical Fire Protection Scaffolds (1926.450) 20090910bulletin. 2004 - 09/16/2004 - U.S. Labor Department Awards more than $10.5 Million in Grants For Safety and Health Training Programs. U.S. Labor Department Awards more than $10.5 Million in Grants For Safety and Health Training Programs WASHINGTON -- The U.S.
Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today awarded more than $10.5 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants to 69 nonprofit organizations for safety and health training and educational programs. "These grants of more than $10.5 million will provide new opportunities to train and educate workers about job safety," said Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao. The grants support the development of training materials and the provision of safety programs to educate Hispanic and other non-English-speaking workers and employers in small businesses, and workers who are employed in high hazard industries and industries with high fatality rates.
"These funds offer new opportunities to provide quality training for non-English speaking workers and others who work in high-hazard occupations," said OSHA Administrator John Henshaw. U.S. Construction Lead. 2005 - 09/30/2005 - U.S. Labor Department Awards $10.3 Million for Safety and Health Training Grants. 2006 - 09/29/2006 - U.S. Department of Labor Awards More than $10 Million in Grants for Safety and Health Training Programs. UNLV developing curriculum for fall prevention - Business. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is developing curriculum to teach fall prevention and safety to construction workers through a grant from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The $287,000 grant comes in the wake of the 12 deaths on Strip construction sites during the building boom that was just completed. Six of those deaths, including two at CityCenter and two at Cosmopolitan, were due to falls. "There are requirements in place for construction managers to train employees exposed to fall hazards," program director Nancy Menzel said. "The incidence of deaths and injuries from falls indicate that enough is not being done. " Menzel, an associate professor of nursing at UNLV, along with three professors from the university's construction management program, are designing an 8-hour curriculum and plan to teach nearly 750 construction workers during a two-year period, beginning in April.
"This is a great program," Coffield said of the UNLV grant. Construction Deaths - Topics - Las Vegas Sun. Construction workers had been dying at a rate of one every six weeks in the $32 billion building boom on the Las Vegas Strip. But deaths stopped last year after the Las Vegas Sun exposed serious safety flaws on the sites and detailed how lax oversight by safety regulators failed to prevent accidents.
The stories forced state and federal investigations and became the subject of hearings in the U.S. House and Senate. Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and others sent a letter to President Bush demanding safety reforms in the Labor Department. As the Sun pursued the story, the newspaper reported on cozy relationships existing between safety regulators and builders. Angered by the revelations and continuing death toll, workers walked off the job at MGM Mirage's CityCenter, shutting down the largest private commercial development in U.S. history until the contractors agreed to safety improvements.
Twelve workers had died in 18 months. UNLV Training to Focus on Construction Accidents. LAS VEGAS, Nv. -- A new UNLV program will focus on fall prevention at construction sites. UNLV says more than a third of the construction workers who died in the last five years fell to their deaths. Funding for the new program comes about one week after the federal government released a report saying Nevada OSHA is failing to do its job resulting in a rash of fatal construction accidents on the Las Vegas Strip. As they stand on scaffolding, take measurements, and hang drywall, it's hard to tell these students aren't on a real construction site. Although this is just a mock setup, students know the reality that awaits them at big projects like CityCenter. "Its havoc over there. It's crazy. It's a lot of buildings and it just means its a quick pace. Students say the rash of deaths at CityCenter was a wake-up call.
Although workers already get 10-hours of safety training, UNLV was just awarded a grant by OSHA to provide eight more. "Their cultural beliefs, they defer to authority. Evidence of change: Six months, no fatalities - Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008 | 2 a. By Alexandra Berzon Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008 | 2 a.m. Twelve workers died in accidents at Strip construction sites during the first 18 months of Las Vegas’s current building boom — an average of one death every six weeks. In the past six months, not one worker has died.
To those involved in construction in Las Vegas, the six months since the death June 16 of Lyndal Bates at Boyd Gaming’s Echelon is a reason to celebrate: Las Vegas had developed a nationwide reputation for unsafe conditions. At MGM Mirage’s CityCenter and the adjacent Cosmopolitan, eight workers fell or were crushed to death. Four more died at other Strip sites — the Fontainebleau, Palazzo, Trump and Echelon. The Las Vegas Sun documented many of those deaths in stories throughout the spring, reporting that a combination of lax government oversight and a rush to build quickly and as inexpensively as possible contributed to poor safety conditions. “There’s been a palpable effort by all parties.
As California Democratic Rep. Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture. This series promotes innovative, interdisciplinary research in the theory and practice of technical communication, broadly conceived as including business, scientific, and health communication. Technical communication has an extensive impact on our world and our lives, yet the venues for long-format research in the field are few. This series serves as an outlet for scholars engaged with the theoretical, practical, rhetorical, and cultural implications of this burgeoning field. For more information on how to submit a proposal to this series please contact Ann Donahue, Publisher for Literary Studies. ShareThis <div>Browser does not support script. Federal Hazard Communication Program - Applied Industrial Hygiene - Volume 3.
A comparison of consensus, consistency, and measurement approaches to estimating interrater reliability. Stemler, Steven E. A Comparison of Consensus, Consistency, and Measurement Approaches to Estimating Interrater Reliability Steven E. Stemler Yale University PACE Center Many educational and psychological studies require the use of independent judges, or raters, in order to quantify some aspect of behavior.
For example, judges may be used to score open-response items on a standardized test, to rate the performance of expert athletes at a sporting event, or to empirically test the viability of a new scoring rubric. Judges are most often used when behaviors of interest cannot be objectively scored in a simple right/wrong sense, but instead require some rating of the degree to which observed behaviors represent particular levels of a construct of interest (e.g., athletic excellence, history competence).
Across all situations involving judges, it is important to estimate the degree of interrater reliability, as this value has important implications for the validity of the study results. Consensus Estimates. JAC Online: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics. Positioning Technical Communication for the Creative Economy. Buy & download fulltext article: Abstract: Although technical communication has traditionally positioned itself as a “service profession,” the work technical communicators actually do more closely resembles the complex leadership, management and subject matter work of a “creative” profession.
Recent thinking about the practices and curricula of technical communication demonstrates the need to view technical communication as a complex profession that requires a range of skills that allow one to interact with subject matter experts and be subject matter experts ourselves, to manage projects and people, and to lead research and development activities. Technical communicators must be able to generate ideas to produce goods and services that create, teach, and drive technical innovation as well as inspire, design, and cultivate change. Document Type: Journal Article Publication date: August 1, 2006 More about this publication? Organizational Implications of the Future Development of Technica. Buy & download fulltext article: Abstract: As the profession of technical communication develops and evolves, practitioners are forming formal and informal organizational structures that support collaborative communities.
These organizational structures are emerging within commercial companies and professional societies such as the Society for Technical Communication. This article describes evolving methods and best practices that technical communicators can apply in the workplace to create an environment that supports effective communities of practice. We identify specific techniques and best practices, including methods of assessing the effectiveness and business impact of communities in the workplace, and interventions for improvement.
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