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...Employers' Information Service, a company based in Gretna, La., is creating a massive data bank on workers who have reported on-the-job injuries. For a fee, employers can request a report on prospective employees, including a history of prior job injuries and a record of worker's compensation claims and lawsuits. To keep from being added to other data banks, workers in Idaho are suing that state's industrial commission to prevent it from releasing such records...
...This is no time for on-the-job training," he said...
...disaster brought to light the mostly invisible body count of the American workplace. By some estimates, more than 10,000 workers die each year from on-the-job injuries -- about 30 every day. Perhaps 70,000 more are permanently disabled. The fire also exposed the weakness of measures for ensuring job safety. The 11-year-old Imperial Food Products plant had never been inspected. Like a lot of American workplaces, it fell through the gaping cracks of a system in which there are too few inspectors, penalties are mostly trifling, and the procedures for reporting dangerous conditions can leave workers...
Much of the clamor is unavoidable because it fills work sites or public places. As many as 10 million Americans are exposed daily to on-the-job noise that could gradually cause some degree of permanent hearing loss. Sixty million Americans endure other noise, including the cacophony of city traffic, that is louder than the level the Federal Government deems safe, and 15 million live close to busy airports or beneath heavily traveled air routes. In some neighborhoods of northern New Jersey, more than 1,000 flights thunder overhead each...
...heart of the dispute is the groundbreaking experiment at Walter Reed. Two clinical psychologists who recently earned their Ph.D.s are beginning an on-the-job training course that could last up to two years. They will prescribe pills for a broad range of conditions, from hyperactivity to manic depression. At the end of the trial period, independent experts will evaluate the students' performance and make recommendations to Congress on whether the program should be expanded for general use. The initiative was proposed by Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, whose administrative assistant, Patrick DeLeon, is an American Psychological Association board member...