Due to the risk of COVID-19 exposure at the workplace, many states have enacted legislation to include the contraction of COVID-19 as a compensable workers’ compensation “occupational disease.” Just ...

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 59, No. 6 (June 2017), pp. e119-e124 (6 pages) Objective: The aim of this study was to estimate the extent to which workrelated injuries ...

Did you know that in 2019 a worker died every 99 minutes from a work-related injury? Many of these deaths took place among drivers, sales workers, and truck drivers (together, accounting for 1,005 ...

Occupational health care is in the midst of a transformation. Safety will always be the leading pillar of occupational health, but today a greater focus is being cast on holistic health and wellness.

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Today, more Police Officers and Firefighters will die by suicide than in the line of duty. 1 “You don’t realize what’s happening to you when you’re going through the years of layered secondary trauma, ...

Agriculture is one of the most hazardous industries in this country, with more than 700 occupational fatalities and 120,000 work-related disabling injuries occurring annually. [1] Physically demanding ...