Lovell Safety Groups Earn Dividends

Lovell Safety Management Co., LLC, announced the 2011 - 2012 dividend earnings of two of its Safety Groups:

New York State Construction Industry, Safety Group #469 paid a 20 percent dividend. Qualifying members received an advance discount of 25 percent.

Printing and Imaging Association, Safety Group #514 paid a 25 percent dividend. Qualifying members received an advance discount of 25 percent.

OSHA 10-Hour Course, Flushing, NY, June 19th and 26th, 2013

Save the Date! The OSHA 10-Hour Course, Flushing, NY, June 19th and 26th, 2013.

To aid in your compliance with the various Federal, State and City regulations requiring this training, the LSM safety department is once again offering the OSHA 10 Hour Course. The course is provided by our OSHA certified instructors. Each employee who successfully completes the program will receive a certification card from OSHA.

Pre registration is required. Please see attached brochure.

Sunday is Workers Memorial Day!

From the CDC:

"On Workers Memorial Day, we honor the men and women who suffered work-related injury, illness, and death, and we rededicate ourselves to the mission of preventing future tragedies. Earning a day’s pay should not place anyone at risk of losing life or livelihood."

Read the full story on Workers Memorial Day.

The OSHA 10-Hour Course, Rennselaer, NY, May 16th and 23rd, 2013.

Save the Date! The OSHA 10-Hour Course, Rennselaer, NY, May 16th and 23rd, 2013.

To aid in your compliance with the various Federal, State and City regulations requiring this training, the LSM safety department is once again offering the OSHA 10 Hour Course. The course is provided by our OSHA certified instructors. Each employee who successfully completes the program will receive a certification card from OSHA.

Pre registration is required. Please see attached brochure.

OSHA 10-Hour Course, Buffalo, NY, May 8th and 9th, 2013

Save the Date! The OSHA 10-Hour Course, Buffalo, NY, May 8th and 9th, 2013.

To aid in your compliance with the various Federal, State and City regulations requiring this training, the LSM safety department is once again offering the OSHA 10 Hour Course. The course is provided by our OSHA certified instructors. Each employee who successfully completes the program will receive a certification card from OSHA.

Pre registration is required. Please see attached brochure.

The OSHA 10-Hour Course, Flushing, NY, May 8th and 15th, 2013

Save the Date! The OSHA 10-Hour Course, Flushing, NY, May 8th and 15th, 2013.

To aid in your compliance with the various Federal, State and City regulations requiring this training, the LSM safety department is once again offering the OSHA 10 Hour Course. The course is provided by our OSHA certified instructors. Each employee who successfully completes the program will receive a certification card from OSHA.

Pre registration is required. Please see attached brochure.

Workplace Health Is Public Health

It’s National Public Health Week. Those of us who work in workplace safety and health know that workplace health is an integral part of public health. While “Creating a Healthy Workplace” is one of the five themes of National Public Health Week, the role of workplace health in Public Health is not always clear to the general public. If you were asked to make the case for or provide examples of the importance of workplace safety and health in the broader context of public health, what would you say? We would like to hear how you explain to your colleagues, friends, and family that workplace safety and health IS public health.

Here are some ideas to get you started.

- Many of us spend a significant portion of our lives at work. In 2011, 65 percent of the population worked full time and year round.
- Many hazards or exposures that concern the general population are seen first and in much higher concentrations in the workplace.

For example:
Hazards related to butter flavoring chemical mixtures, including diacetyl, that have been associated with severe obstructive work-related lung disease popularly know as “popcorn lung” were first identified in the workplace.

Health implications related to nanomaterials are being researched in the workplace. This research will help make these innovative materials safer for the workers who produce and use them and in turn safer for the general public.

Overexposure to lead remains a leading cause of workplace illness. Workers can also expose their families unintentionally if they track lead home on their skin, clothing, or equipment.

Increasingly, health professionals, employers, and workers see the interactive value of combining workplace health protection with workplace-based health promotion—what we call Total Worker Health™.

Based on medical costs and productivity losses, in 2007, the cost of work-related fatalities and nonfatal injuries and illnesses was estimated at approximately $263 billion in 2010 dollars. This amount exceeds the individual cost of cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.

Everyone deserves a healthy and safe workplace:

In 2011, 4,609 U.S. workers died from work-related injuries.iv
Employers reported approximately 3 million injuries and illnesses to workers in private industry and 820,900 in state and local government in 2011.v In the same year, approximately 2.9 million workers were treated in emergency departments and 110,000 were hospitalized (CDC, unpublished data, 2013).

Fatal occupational illnesses are not tracked comprehensively by national surveillance systems so the total must be estimated. In 2007 there were an estimated 53,445 deaths from occupational illness.