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What's Hot Archive

• Online Seminar: What You Need to Know About H1N1 Flu
  Forget the hype, attend an H1N1 online seminar and let an AFSCME health and safety specialist give you the latest information for you and your family.
• Download the Report: Health Care Workers In Peril (4.4MB PDF)
  
• More About Pandemic Influenza
  
• Read the HHS Declaration (4/26/2009)
  
• Read the HHS Press Release (4/26/2009)
  
• OSHA Releases Guidance Document on Mandatory Respirator Selection (4/1/2009)
  
• Health and Safety
  
• New York – 9/11-Linked Illness Claims Another First Responder
  
• Organize & Mobilize for Safe Jobs
  
• Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) in the Correctional Facility
  
• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) in Institutional Settings
  
• OSHA Denies AFSCME's Call to Protect Workers from Pandemic Influenza
  
• George Taylor, Who Helped Write OSHA Law, Dies at 95
  Taylor, a former director of occupational safety and health for the AFL-CIO, helped draft landmark legislation in 1970 to protect America’s workers from various dangers on the job.
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  Preventing Workplace Violence: A Union Representative's Guidebook
  Workers can act together through their union to move an employer to reduce the risks for violence.
• Chapter 8: Taking Action: Union Strategies and Tactics
  
• AFSCME Members at Library of Congress Concerned Over Asbestos Incidents
  Members of the Library of Congress Professional Guild, AFSCME Local 2910 (Council 26) are monitoring the outcome of recent incidents involving potential asbestos exposure.
• Chapter 3: Controlling and Preventing Workplace Violence
  
• Chapter 4: Violence Among Co-Workers and Managers
  
• Chapter 5: Domestic Violence in the Workplace
  
• Chapter 6: Reacting to Violence After it Occurs
  
• New law provides benefits for 9/11 workers and volunteers
  
• Training Materials in Spanish
  
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  Safe Jobs Now: A Guide to Health and Safety in the Workplace
  Worker safety is too important to leave to management.
• Excavation, Trenching and Shoring Safety
  
• The Keys to Healthy Computing: A Health and Safety Handbook
  
• September/October 1999
  
• AFSCME Pushes For Stronger TB Protections
  
• AFSCME Council 14 and Hennepin County, Minnesota
  
• AFSCME Guide to Using Medicines Safely and Personal Medicine Log
  
• AFSCME Local 481 and the City of Portland, Maine
  
• Managing a Prison Disturbance: An ACU Guide
  
• Staying Fit: A Guide to Physical Activity for AFSCME Retirees
  Most people know that exercise is good for them and that includes retirees. In fact, research shows that older people in varying physical condition have much to gain from exercise and keeping physically active. Read on to find out how retirees can stay fit.
• Women & AIDS: Basic Facts About AIDS & HIV
  
• Appendix H: Resources
  
• Chapter 9: Taking Action: Union Strategies and Actions
  
• Domestic Violence: An AFSCME Guide for Union Action
  
• Domestic Violence: What Unions Can Do
  
• Double Jeopardy: Caseworkers at Risk Helping At-Risk Kids
  
• Emotional Factors
  
• Establish an AIDS Policy and Education Program
  
• Facts at Your Fingertips: Health and Safety
  
• Fighting for the Rights of Employees with Disabilities: An AFSCME Guide
  
• Introduction
  
• Medications
  
• Needle Points: An AFSCME Guide to Sharps Safety
  
• Preserving Benefits
  
• Resources
  
• Sick leave
  
• Stopping Sexual Harassment: An AFSCME Guide
  
• Support Services
  
• The Family: Nuclear and Extended
  
• The Person's Medical Situation
  
• Transmission in the Workplace
  
• What's the Workplace Going to Be Like When a Co-Worker Has AIDS?
  
• When AIDS Comes to Work: An AFSCME Guide for Stewards
  
• Alcohol Testing Procedures
  
• Department of Transportation Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulations
  
• Health Club Discounts
  
• How to Read a Material Safety Data Sheet
  
• OSHA Laws & Standards
  
• What To Do If You Have a Health and Safety Problem
  
• AFSCME Cites Safety Hazards to U.S. Capitol Workers
  Thanks to Local 2910 (Council 26), Congress is now paying attention to health and safety issues affecting workers on Capitol Hill.
• Asbestos Dangers Follow Workers Home
  The wife of an AFSCME member exposed to asbestos in the workplace has been diagnosed with a fatal cancer. Twenty years ago, Deborah Haws's husband, Charlie, who belongs to Local 611 of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA)/AFSCME Local 1000, took down ceilings and dismantled boilers at a power plant serving the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego. The work exposed him to airborne asbestos fibers...In those days, wives habitually shook out their husband's clothes, inhaling white dust as they put the garments into the washing machine. Now Deborah Haws has contracted mesothelioma, a fatal cancer that has been directly lined to asbestos.
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  New York City Member Testifies About 9/11 Health Impact
  Representing AFSCME DC 37 members who did rescue and recovery work at Ground Zero on and after Sept. 11, Local 375's Ron Vega testified on Feb. 28 before a U.S House subcommittee that's looking into public health and safety issues related to the World Trade Center attacks.

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