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Text Mining for Safety: Develop Your Untapped Reserves of Unstructured Data for Health, Safety and Environmental Improvements
White Papers To ensure the overall health of the enterprise and its safety and environmental conditions, companies prepare and file detailed incident (and near-incident) reports. Monitoring these events and performing timely analysis leads to effective...
[September 2, 2009, 1:22]
mySAP Product Lifecycle Management Environment, Health and Safety to Support Employee Health and Environmental Protection
White Papers German coal-mining giant Deutsche Steinkohle AG (DSK), with the leadership position in its industry and a workforce numbering 55,000 employees, has always placed a high priority on employee health and safety and environmental protection.
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Improving Quality, Safety and Efficiency of Healthcare: Security Best Practices for Health Information Exchange
White Papers This paper discusses the challenges and regulatory requirements healthcare delivery networks are facing and highlights the security best practices recommended to achieve high quality, safe and efficient healthcare services while maintaining the...
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
HP and Medsphere Help Midland Memorial Hospital Improve Patient Safety Via an Open Source-Based Electronic Health Record System
White Papers In addition to completely replacing the legacy systems, it was decided to implement a comprehensive electronic health record system to increase efficiency and reduce the potential for errors. The hospital seized the opportunity to completely re...
[May 31, 2009, 21:42]
Companies warned after RSI payout over mouse use
News Regulations require employers to assess all workstations for health and safety risks," said Simon Joyston-Bechal, a partner and health and safety expert at Pinsent Masons. Because I was employed as a casual and didn't have a permanent contract...
[June 8, 2006, 11:10]
RSI Week: Your employer's obligations
News Most workplace health and safety regulations apply to factories, warehouses and other places where the likelihood of losing a vital appendage are a lot higher then the average open-plan office. The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment...
[February 26, 2004, 14:25]
FDA News Reader
Downloads The news feed covers news releases, recalls, enforcement reports, consumer health information, center for devices and radiological health, center for Drug Evaluation and Research, center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, and MedWatch Safety...
[August 25, 2009, 13:18]
Whistler
Downloads Whistler collects valuable and upto the minute information on health and food safety alerts from FDA/HHS/CDC, consumer safety alerts from CPSC, car safety issues from NHTSA/DOT, disaster news from FEMA and the American Red Cross, environmental...
[May 15, 2009, 12:35]
News Burst: Mobiles to get safety warnings
News Mobile phones will come with safety guarantee stickers starting next year, in a move to address health concerns over radiation. The new safety guarantee comes in response to growing concerns that mobile phone usage could be linked to cancer or...
[August 29, 2000, 9:36]
Kent council bans mobile masts
News Vodafone says that it is working to address public concerns about mobile phone health risks and is producing research on the safety of mobile phone technology. A spokesman for Orange admits that more could be done by the mobile firms to reassure...
[January 22, 2001, 15:53]
Companies failing to support home workers
News Despite the fact that the numbers of global teleworkers is predicted to reach 41 million by 2008, 35 percent of companies surveyed for the report do not include mobile and home-workers when it comes to implementing UK Health and Safety Executive...
[September 15, 2005, 15:55]
Study links mobile emissions to tumours
News New research by Finland's Helsinki-based Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority appears to support long-held claims that mobile phone radiation may promote tumour growth. Current mobile phone emission standards, including those recommended by the...
[June 20, 2002, 9:44]
IBM cleared of cancer charges
News Today's verdict is an acknowledgment that employee health and safety is woven into every aspect of our business," IBM said in a statement. But the plaintiffs got around that limitation by arguing that IBM had deceived workers about the safety of...
[February 27, 2004, 9:15]
Government urges work-life balance improvements
News The cost of stress-related sick leave and absenteeism in the UK is enough to pay for another two Millennium Domes -- sick days as a result of stress cost the British Industry £370m per year (equivalent to £7.11m per week) according to the Health...
[May 23, 2002, 10:21]
NHS rolls out infection-resistant keyboards
News Maureen Baker, Connecting for Health's national clinical lead for patient safety, said the technology represents a significant step forwards in tackling hospital-acquired infections and in tackling MRSA.
[May 8, 2008, 8:46]
Teleworking 'is good for your health'
News Stress, according to the the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, is costing European countries at least 20bn euros annually. Of the 2,000 union health and safety representatives surveyed, three out of four raised stress-related issues...
[October 14, 2002, 18:17]
Dubai tempts outsourcing businesses with tax breaks
News The planning officer signed it off, the health and safety officer signed it off, but the fire officer said you have to lower the bottom of the window by three bricks," said Jones. He did this, and fitted a new window with a new frame, but then the...
[June 16, 2004, 10:25]
Data watchdog lacks bite for business lapses
Comment Is it any wonder, therefore, that health and safety legislation has thrived, while data protection is so weak? The Health and Safety Executive has a budget and staff about 20 times the size of the ICO's, as well as powers to fine and inspect.
[September 24, 2009, 12:20]
Latest: Children at risk from mobiles
News Hyland accuses the mobile phone industry of taking advantage of the uncertainty over safety issues. However, mobile phone manuacturers deny that they are failing to keep consumers informed over mobile phone safety.
[November 24, 2000, 11:17]
News Roundup: Mobile health fears
News Motorola backtracks on GPRS safety concerns Fri, 27 Oct Motorola says New Scientist report on GPRS radiation safety was wrong but declines to explain why The research painstakingly continues behind the scenes, in the bid to find out if our health...
[December 11, 2000, 15:03]
