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Like other chronic diseases, migraine can cause substantial losses in worker productivity. Now, there’s supporting evidence that taking a daily medication to prevent headache attacks can reduce lost productive time on the job.

As an employer, you have a responsibility to maintain a workplace that is free of sexual harassment. This is your legal obligation, but it also makes good business sense. If you allow sexual harassment to flourish in your workplace, you will pay a high price in terms of poor employee morale, low productivity, and lawsuits.

Substance abuse is a problem in every industry in America, and in any size, location and makeup of workplace, but its effects are disproportionately felt in small businesses.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed the following checklist as a framework

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed the following checklist to help emerge

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) checklist for large businesses identifies important a

Planning for pandemic influenza is critical for ensuring a sustainable healthcare response.

According to the Department of Labor, employers can take the following simple steps to help prevent injuries to working teens (Employer’s Safety Checklist for Y

Should your organization provide leadership training? One of the best ways to determine if there should be leadership training is to conduct a needs assessment.

One of the more common ergonomic hazards is the development of cumulative trauma disorders. OSHA recommends that you do the following:

OSHA has developed a Program Evaluation Profile (PEP) to be used by compliance officers in assessing employer safety and health programs The six elements to be

The following sample policy is designed to illustrate the types of provisions and the wording that may be used in an employer's workplace search policy.

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Wellness programs focus on promoting better health habits among employees.

Lower back injuries are the single most frequent type of injury requiring days off from work.

Most health plans—over 90%—now offer physical activity programs designed to prevent obesity-related illnesses, according to 2002 survey results released as part

Employers should have a workplace violence prevention policy in place that clearly prohibits all types of violence.

OSHA announced it is extending the same high level of respiratory protection to workers exposed to tuberculosis that is provided to workers throughout general i

Sexual harassment and/or anti-discrimination training, either for employees or for supervisors, is not mandated by federal law.

Many experts think the workplace can be an appropriate place to stop domestic violence in its tracks.

No license or permit is required to carry or transport a pistol or revolver to or from one's home or place of business to a target practice range or to a shoot

The vast majority of drug users are employed, and when they arrive for work, they don't leave their problems at the door.

For the past 40 years, employment laws have favored limits on employer intrusion into employees' personal lives.