tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39902077310847354472011-09-06T08:03:40.890-07:00This blog includes updates on all of the latest occupational health and safety news. It focuses on international health and safety topics in emerging economies, specifically India.mutgoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15397570725602793721noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990207731084735447.post-7118862146606178972011-09-06T07:59:00.000-07:002011-09-06T08:02:31.811-07:00

NEW DELHI — One of India’s most powerful mining barons, whose political clout and wealth have made him a controversial national figure, was arrested Monday as investigators raided his offices and seized about $1 million in cash and more than 66 pounds of gold.Until recently, the mining baron, Janardhana Reddy, was a kingmaker in the southern state of Karnataka, where his family and allies once

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Photo by John AtteburyGovernment Regulation gets treated like the girl at the party no one invited. But it's the only thing that can save us now, and since we are generally undereducated when it comes to the way our governments, home loans, or credit cards work, I'm worried we may lose it. I don't see regulation as slipping the handcuffs over the Adam Smith's precious invisible hand, but telling

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I am saddened to see what has happened to the coal miners in Chile, but am happy to see them being set free. In Chile, little regard is given to safety, and all focus is on production. Chile does not have the appropriate regulatory regime. US death rates have dropped dramatically with Mine Safety Organizations and Federal Government oversight. Some politicians in the United States have been

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Recent news about workers in China has been exciting for labor movements. Labor unrest in China is becoming common place. Chinese workers are demanding fair pay and reasonable hours. Laborers are walking out of their jobs to demand higher pay and better working conditions. Labor activism can no longer be ignored by investors who are interested in doing business in China.

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Work-to-Live sponsored and participated in a conference held by OK International to address disease from Silica dust. Our role was mostly to document the discussion around Silicosis in the developing world. We hired a film crew from India who showed up with 12 people! I've never produced a film before, so managing 12 people proved to be a challenge. Not to mention the fact that I'm in India and

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A bit of a rant, but here goes:My job is to make Twitter a better place to work; it's a fabulous place. Some people don't see the connection between my work at Twitter and my non-profit, but I'm essentially trying to do the same thing in both positions: build trust.What I've learned so far is that things go wrong when we give up faith in human reason. Why are we so ready to abandon trust in each

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As we get ready for the big conference this December we finally decided on a logo. Let us know what you think! A big thanks to Maggie Klousia and Phil Pascuzzo!

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Currently the International Work-to-Live Project is working with OK International (http://www.okinternational.org/) on hosting a National level meeting in New Delhi, India to build grassroots level awareness around environmental health issues. In cooperation with the Public Health Foundation of India, the World Bank, and various corporate partners, we are organizing a this workshop to encourage

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Recent industrialization and globalization are changing the Indian occupational morbidity drastically. Traditionally labor-oriented markets are on change towards more automation and mechanization, at the same time general awareness about occupational safety, occupational and environmental hazards were not spread in the society. This review by R.V. Agnihotram of the University of Montreal's

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Ship-breaking along the Indian coast has been increasing exponentially as the global economy has continued to decline."Idle ships are a huge financial burden, so ship owners don't have any option but to get rid of their ships, even if it means scrapping them years ahead of schedule," said Vishnu Kumar Gupta, joint secretary at the Alang Ship Breakers Association. Alang has received more than 125

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The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is funding a study to measure the fallout of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984. The official 25th Anniversary of the tragedy is this December. Many Indian Government officials feel that further investigation of the tragedy's fallout is neededAccording to some estimates, 25,000 people have died of gas-related diseases. Several thousands were maimed for

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A new study from the the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health has found that longer work hours is leading to widespread decline in cognitive functions among employees working overtime hours. The study, "Long working hours and cognitive function: the Whitehall II study" was published in the February issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. The study was performed on over 2,000 British

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As part of the administration's recently released budget proposals, President Obama is aiming for major increases in funding for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The document was released on Thursday says funding increases would allow the agency to "vigorously enforce workplace safety laws and whistleblower protections" that were largely ignored under the previous administration

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A new policy by the Union of cabinet of India aims to reduce workplace stress in Indian offices. While most previous OSH legislation in India has focused on workplace safety in mines and factories, very few pieces of legislation has centered on white-collar OSH issues. This current piece of legislation pays particular attention to placing restrictions on workplace size. “The environment in the

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Perry Gottesfeld, the Executive Director of Occupational Knowledge International, recently gave an interview on the effects of lead poisoning in developing countries. The program focuses on exposure to lead batteries. Below is a short excerpt.There are 120 million people who are overexposed to lead around the world. That's three times the number infected by HIV AIDS. And this problem is going

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The International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health was just released yesterday. There are no stories on Silicosis or India in the current issue, but there is a pretty excellent study on workplace injury in a Vietnamese workers' commune. There's also an editorial praising the Big Three American auto companies (Ford, GM, and Crysler) for their efforts to educate workers on the

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A new study published by a team of researchers at the University of Cologne in Germany recently completed a study to determine if there is a link between silica exposure and lung cancer among workers who are not suffering from silicosis. They combed through past studies published over the past 42 years on the subject. Their findings were inconclusive, but they feel that additional research is

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The UK Government recently launched a new campaign to better educate small businesses on the harmful effects of silicosis.Many small contractors are still unaware of the dangers of silica dust, the Health and Safety Executive has warned. Dr Robert Ellis – from the regulator's chemicals risk management unit, which is leading the HSE's "Clean the Air" campaign – said despite a marked increase in

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A new report details how worksite clinics are gaining in popularity in the US. The survey, by Mercer LLC, also found that 14 percent of these clinics are providing primary care to workers. The growing expense of health care plans is cited as one of the main reasons for this increased dependence. Perhaps, the most telling part of the study was the services that the companies are considering to

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HazMap, an awesome site developed by the National Institutes of Health, was listed in the Wall Street Journal's annual list of top new (or improved) health sites. HazMap includes a multitude of chemical profiles of agents that pose a potential occupational risk. The site also includes profiles of high risk jobs.According to the Journal's article, "The site recently added 180 new chemical profiles

Jonathan Zukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04956225384466770774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990207731084735447.post-4392493436092515112009-01-03T15:45:00.000-08:002009-01-03T16:43:52.160-08:00

Are you interested in Esther Duflo, an economist at MIT, recently received an honorable mention in an Economist article on young economists. Duflo's work has focused on moving development economics away from concentrating solely on policies, but instead to approach the discipline through field work at the community level. She and her colleagues conduct randomized trials of development projects

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As the final days of the Bush Administration slowly melt into history, so many final histories on each department and agency are being published by several news organizations. A final note on OSHA was not lost in the mix.The AP published a seemingly blistering report the perceived politicization of the agency over the last eight years.In early 2001, an epidemiologist at the Occupational Safety

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The Indian Government is proposing mandatory yoga instruction at all of the country's primary schools according to the Indian news blog, Good Read. Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss noted that yoga has been proven to reduce diabetes, hypertension, and stress.Adult-onset diabetes has been linked to risk factors like ageing, an inactive lifestyle, unhealthy diets, smoking, alcohol and obesity.The

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The Kingdom of Bahrain has pledged to train nearly 200 OSH professionals through its government-funded labor fund, Tamkeem. Like many other developing economies, Bahrain has found itself awash with reports of occupational health injuries and disease, yet there are few professionals in the country certified in the discipline.Quoted in the Gulf Daily News, the project's managing director, Hassan

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Last week I met with Perry Gottesfeld, executive director at Occupational Knowledge International, who has agreed to partner up with Work-to-Live for our first project. OK International is a San Francisco non-profit organization dedicated to improving public health though innovative strategies to reduce exposures to industrial pollutants. They have been working on a project in India to Reduce

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In January, University of Pittsburgh professor Dr. Don Burke blogged about his recent visit to Hyderabad, India to explore possible partnerships that the University could undertake with Indian institutions. Dr. Burke found that the prospects for partnerships were excellent. He highlighted two community outreach programs that he saw as models for future success: REACH (Rural Effective Affordable

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A new study published in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health finds that over one third (34%) of females working in a quartz-crushing mill in rural Gujarat, India are showing symptoms of either silicosis or other related respiratory diseases.The study shows that most of the cases of silicosis, silico-tuberculosis, and tuberculosis came from exposure of less than

Jonathan Zukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04956225384466770774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3990207731084735447.post-73015050819797587012008-11-12T20:04:00.000-08:002008-11-30T18:04:44.191-08:00

The Express India reported on the human rights violations that are occurring in Gujarati asbestos factories. The International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS) has labeled Gujarat as the 'Asbestos Hot Spot.' This report was sparked by a dossier circulated at the recent Rotterdam convention in Rome which lists the 'Golden Corridor' of Gujarat as a major hub for asbestos use. This corridor

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Chrysotile asbestos will stay off a PIC (Prior Informed Consent) list of dangerous UN chemicals said observers attending the Rotterdam Convention talks in Rome this Tuesday. India, Pakistan, Vietnam and the Philippines spoke out opposing it's inclusion. The inclusion of chrysotile asbestos on the PIC list would not mean countries had to ban it's import. It would only have forced exporters to

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Dr. Joshi, from our Medical Advisory Board, was quoted in an Ottawa newspaper this week. He commented on asbestos exposure in the fishing village of Urur Kuppam, in the south of Chennai. Visaka industries produces asbestos-cement sheets in Hyderabad. The sheets are used all over the country by people who do not know the danger associated with asbestos fibers. These sheets get old and fall apart,

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I have returned to the United States and spent the last few weeks thinking about what steps our organization needs to take to make an effective start. We met with several interesting and important people and I have an idea of what role I would like them to play in the next few years. We raised over $12,000 on August 23rd. How will we spend the money?I was walking down Valencia street in San

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Dr. Hemantha Wickram of Sri Lanka's National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) gave a presentation which outlined how the environment and occupational illness fall hand in hand. In school he studied carbon monoxide poisoning and found that underground parking lot attendants were having breathing troubles due to the poor ventilation engineering. He echoed what we had heard about

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After a long trip from Udaipur, we came to Mumbai for a workshop given to physicians from ESIC (A government department that provides healthcare and insurance to workers) The workshop focused on some of the big issues facing the health of workers in India today. The first presentation was from Dr. Arthur Frank, a Professor of Public Health Chair at Drexel University's Department of Environmental

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Dr. Dave introduced me to many members of his staff and I was particularly struck by the work of Ms. Bhawana Jhaveri. She has been conducting cancer awareness programs in villages outside the city that have been very successful. The education programs go to schools and put on presentations about not smoking and early detection of common cancers. These presentations combine plays, flip-charts,

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I took an overnight bus from Jodhpur to Ahmedabad to meet with Dr. SK Dave who worked for NIOH (National Institute of Occupational Health) in India from 1982 to 1999. He now works for the Oncology department at Gujarat Hospital. I have been emailing with him for more than a year and we have not accomplished much over email. I am amazed how much we were able to accomplish in a short meeting

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Dr. SM Mohnot arranged for a visit to a sandstone mining area 15 km outside of Jodhpur. The area is famous for the high quality sandstone slabs that are crushed there using hydraulic drilling, dynamite and hammers. In recent years, this area has become increasingly dependent on mining as the amount of annual rainfall has declined. We drove down the narrow roads of the town of Sursagar en route to

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We arrived in Jodhpur last night and woke up early to meet Doctor S.M. Mohnot, Director of the Mine and Labor Protection Campaign. Apparently 95% of mining here is done by small privately owned groups. None of the mines surrounding Jodhpur are in compliance with federal laws requiring best practices and safety provisions for employees. In fact there is at least one death in these mine every day.

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Today we visited a successful NGO formed in 1975 in Jaipur known as Jaipur Foot. This organization helps amputees rehabilitate themselves and re-renter the workforce. Many of these amputees are victims of workplace injury. They create a prosthetic limb from plaster and rubber for less than $35 which is realistic looking and quite functional. The patients themselves are treated free of charge and

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Last night we had dinner with Dr. Sidharth Consul, an opthamologist from Jaipur and his lovely wife Renu, a general practitioner. He was very interested and very opinionated about the mission of our organization. He seems to think that employees and employers know the dangers they face in the workplace and that the education we aim to provide will not be as helpful as we think. When I asked him

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We were invited to attend a meeting of Jaipur's oldest Rotary Club to speak about our organization. I didn't really know what to expect so I prepared a few notes and thought I would adjust my speech based on the other speakers who were to go before me. The first 30 minutes, which was spent having tea and some traditional Indian snacks, was productive. I went around and introduced myself to the

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We are staying with a family in Jaipur called the Mathurs who live near Collectorate Circle. They are four siblings in their fifties living together a charming period house that belonged to their parents. The Mathurs include Dr. Beena Mathur "Delilah", the eldest sister. who teaches in the University of Rajasthan. She lives with her husband who is a retired Colonel from the Indian Army. Delilah

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Dr. Gupta and Dr. Joshi mentioned how few physicians were trained in occupational health and the need for foreign medical professionals for training. Both Dr. Gupta and Dr. Joshi had been trained in the UK and US and hoped to eventually have training occupational health training for physicians in India. They were not speaking of a years of training but a short course or some lectures. They said

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On Friday August 29, Dr. Gupta offered to take us to an old stone crushing site in Delhi. We met him at the hospital at 10 AM and off we went in a lovely air conditioned car. As we drove I was able to pick Dr. Gupta's brain a little more which was awesome. We talked about unorganized work sectors where employees were exposed to high levels of silica. He spoke about the importance of awareness of

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It's our first day in India and we met Dr. TK Joshi in Delhi who invited us to the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) at GB Pant Hospital near Connaught Place in the center of Delhi. This is a government agency which focuses on occupational health issues and is staffed by occupational health physicians. We met him and his associates, including Dr. Neeraj Gupta, and learned

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The International Work-to-Live Project is embarking on a five week journey to India to investigate areas of interest for our first project, Pneumoconiosis in India: a Preventable Catastrophe. The team includes myself and the Project's Chief Operations Officer, Jonathan Zuk. I have been aware of a lack of occupational health and safety standards in emerging economies and have been studying related

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