Did you know that the first Father’s Day has workplace origins? On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event to explicitly honor fathers.1 The Sunday sermon was held in memory of the 362 men who were killed in explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, West Virginia the previous December. These explosions remain the worst mine disaster2 and the worst industrial catastrophe of any kind3 in the history of the United States. The 362 casualties left more than 1,000 widows and children.
Selected Category: Mining
First Father’s Day Tied to the Workplace
Categories: Mining
June 15th, 2012 9:57 am ET - Laurie I. Breyer, JD, MA
NIOSH Research on Work Schedules and Work-related Sleep Loss
Categories: Emergency response, Health care, Mining, Sleep, Stress, Total Worker Health, Vehicle safety
March 9th, 2012 8:04 am ET - Claire Caruso, PhD, RN; Luenda Charles, PhD; Tina Lawson, PhD; Akinori Nakata, PhD; Karl Sieber, PhD; Sudha Pandalai, MD, PhD; and Ted Hitchcock, PhD
Yesterday, in honor of National Sleep Awareness Week, we blogged about sleep and work and the risks to workers, employers, and the public when workers’ hours and shifts do not allow for adequate sleep. This blog provides a brief overview of some of the work that NIOSH intramural scientists are carrying out to better understand these risks and ways to prevent them.
Nurses/Reproduction Issues/Shift Work
NIOSH studies are examining shift work and physical demands with respect to adverse pregnancy outcome among nurses, specifically the association between work schedule and risk of spontaneous abortion, preterm birth, and menstrual function. This research was the first to look at shift work and pregnancy in U. S. nurses. NIOSH researchers are collaborating with the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study, which is the largest, ongoing prospective study of nurses. Results have shown that an increased risk of several reproductive outcomes, including spontaneous abortion, early preterm birth, and menstrual cycle irregularities, are related to shift work, particularly working the night shift.
Sleep and Work
Categories: Emergency response, Health care, Mining, Sleep, Stress, Total Worker Health, Vehicle safety
March 8th, 2012 10:33 am ET - Claire Caruso, PhD, RN, and Roger R Rosa, PhD
We know that sleep is important. The need for sleep is biologically similar to the need to eat and drink, and it is critical for maintaining life and health and for working safely. Sleeping 7 to 8 hours a night is linked with a wide range of better health and safety outcomes. NIOSH has been actively involved in research to protect workers, workers’ families, employers, and the community from the hazards linked to long work hours and shift work. In honor of National Sleep Awareness Week, we have summarized the sleep and work issue below and, in a companion blog tomorrow, will highlight NIOSH research in this area.
A growing number of American workers are not getting enough sleep. Research shows an increase from 24% in the 1980s to 30% in the 2000s in the percentage of American civilian workers reporting 6 or fewer hours of sleep per day—a level considered by sleep experts to be too short (Luckhaupt, Tak, & Calvert 2009).
Using Digital Chest Images to Monitor the Health of Coal Miners and Other Workers
Categories: Mining, Respiratory health, Technology
June 2nd, 2009 9:03 am ET - Michael Attfield, PhD, and David Weissman, MD
Under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, as amended by the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, NIOSH administers a long-standing chest radiographic (x-ray) monitoring program for underground coal miners (The Coal Workers X-ray Surveillance Program [CWXSP]). Conventional screen-film chest radiographic imaging has been an indispensable tool for monitoring the lung health of miners and other dust-exposed workers. In these surveillance programs, trained readers assess a worker’s chest radiograph for the presence and severity of occupational lung disease (parenchymal a, pleural b, and other abnormalities) using a classification system developed by the International Labour Office (ILO). The ILO classification system was designed to systematically record the abnormalities seen on standard screen-film chest radiographs that occur as a result of dust inhalation. It requires the reader to compare any abnormalities observed on the worker’s radiograph to a set of standard radiographs exemplifying various types and severity of dust diseases, provided as hard copy films by the ILO.
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