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Posted by Advocate on November 25, 1999 at 10:56:03:

> Occupational Safety and Health Administration
> http://www.osha.gov/media/oshnews/nov99/national-11221999.html

> National News Release: USDL 99-333
> Monday, Nov. 22, 1999
> CONTACT: Susan Hall Fleming or Michael Fluharty
> PHONE: 202-693-1990 (Monday only) or 202-693-1999
>
> One Size Doesn't Fit All Approach
> ERGONOMICS PROPOSAL TO PREVENT 300,000 INJURIES;
> SAVE $9 BILLION A YEAR
>
> An average of 300,000 workers can be spared from
> painful, potentially disabling,
> injuries, and $9 billion can be saved each year under
> a proposed ergonomics
> program standard, Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman
> announced today.
>
> "Work-related musculoskeletal disorders such as back
> injuries and carpal tunnel
> syndrome are the most prevalent, most expensive and
> most preventable
> workplace injuries in the country," said Herman. "Real
> people are suffering real
> injuries that can disable their bodies and destroy
> their lives. The good news is
> that real solutions are available."...
>
> Each year 1.8 million U.S. workers experience
> work-related musculoskeletal
> disorders, such as injuries from overexertion or
> repetitive motion. About
> one-third of these injuries -- 600,000 -- are serious
> enough to require time off
> work. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders, or MSDs,
> account for one-third
> of all workers' compensation costs each year because
> these injuries can require
> a lengthy recovery time.
>
> Women disproportionately suffer some of the most
> severe MSDs -- not
> because their bodies are more vulnerable to MSDs --
> but because a large
> number of women work in jobs associated with heavy
> lifting, awkward postures
> or repetitive motion. Women suffer 70 percent of the
> carpal tunnel syndrome
> cases and 62 percent of the tendinitis cases that are
> serious enough to warrant
> time off work. Each year more than 100,000 women
> experience work-related
> back injuries that cause them to miss work....
>
> .....
> The proposal would require that workers who experience
> covered
> musculoskeletal disorders receive a prompt response,
> evaluation of their injury
> and follow-up by a health care professional, if
> necessary. Workers who need
> time off the job to recover from the injury could get
> 90 percent of pay and 100
> percent of benefits -- to limit economic loss as a
> result of their injuries....



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