Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM) is an indispensable guide to good health in the workplace for physicians, nurses, and researchers alike. In-depth, clinically oriented research articles and technical reports keep occupational and environmental medicine specialists up-to-date on new medical developments in the prevention, diagnosis, and rehabilitation of environmentally induced conditions and work-related injuries and illnesses.JOEM is an excellent source for new ideas, concepts, techniques, and procedures that can be readily applied in the industrial or commercial employment setting.Consider JOEM as your next publication venue and submit your manuscripts to: https://www.editorialmanager.com/joem/default.aspxOfficial journal of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

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Baltimore, MD

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1959

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covid-19, occupational medicine, occupational health, environmental medicine, workplace health, healthcare workers, mental health, worker protections, disability, policy & practice, hazardous exposure, management issues, epidemiology, toxicology, work engagement, cardiovascular disease, biohazard, job stress, health behavior, return to work, fitness for work, sick leave, PTSD, presenteeism, culture of health, PPE, mortality, absenteeism, occupational infectious disease, worker protections, occupational stress, workplace, return to work, and SARS-CoV-2

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  Nicolas Smit

  Visionary leader in public health advocacy with a proven record of catalyzing government action on public health emergencies. I helped significantly improve workplace safety for millions of workers in the U.S. & Canada.

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  Shutting down NIOSH’s National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) is going to make it much harder to protect the country during public health emergencies. It was only a few months ago that the CDC announced that thanks to NPPTL, the government is going to introduce next generation solutions & send firefighters elastomeric respirators so their high rates of occupational disease can be a thing of the past.https://lnkd.in/gGhMPUSwThe money that will be saved will be trivial compared to the amount of money that it will soon cost to deal with emergencies such as wildfire threats, pandemics & biological attacks.When hospitals were experiencing widespread N95 shortages & dozens of HCWs were dying each day during the first wave, NPPTL staff was hosting webinars & sharing resources on elastomeric respirators so hospitals could bring an immediate end to N95 shortages.Its staff have been responsible for helping keep the U.S. at the global forefront of respiratory science. Thanks to their dedicated team of researchers, the country is decades ahead of the science compared to counties like Canada.This agency has been instrumental in creating roadmaps to help solve the biggest respiratory health problems that have cost the government trillions. Thanks to NPPTL & wonderful people like Maryann D’Allesandro, next generation solutions are about to be implemented in many industries & during public health emergencies.Thanks to their research, we now have new PPE so effective that they can be used to quickly bring an end to future pandemics faster than the time it would take to come out with a new vaccine. Thanks to their research, wildland firefighters & the public will soon be using next generation respirators that will help significantly bring down rates of cancer, heart disease & lung disease due to wildfire smoke exposure.Thanks to their research, HCWs will soon have next generation PPE far more effective N95s that can make sure they can’t be infected nor infect their patients. Thanks to their research, the DoD is about to provide advanced respiratory protection to every member of the military & civilians working on bases. These protections will help shield them from infection during a biological attack or next time a deadly virus is quickly spreading through the country.Thanks to to their vast resources & being able to personally learn so much from its staff, I’ve helped bring the Canadian government up to speed with next generation solutions they were adamant did not exist & will help save 10,000s of Canadians.

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  Did you know? NIOSH protects 164 million workers – all for less than $2 per person each year. From funding life-saving research to ensuring safety for non-union workers, NIOSH plays a crucial role in public health and workplace safety.#NIOSH#OccEnvMedLearn more about why this small agency makes a big impact.https://lnkd.in/gjFHgkwr

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  Director at Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing

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  This past week, roughly 92% of the dedicated staff working at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health received termination notices indicating that their services were no longer needed. While there are many ways to process this information...some may think it unfortunate for those who lost their job, some may consider it necessary to reduce waste and increase government savings and others may feel like it has little impact on their lives, so why care? While these cuts have been devastating to the staff at NIOSH who have lost their jobs, I can utterly assure you that we should all care. NIOSH provides the biggest bang for the buck of any federal agency. They have significantly and steadily reduced worker injuries, illnesses and deaths over the past few decades (take mining, for example, where death tolls have plummeted in the past 50 years from 242 deaths in 1978 to 30 deaths per year in recent years). The cost of NIOSH services across the country per worker is less than $2 annually, yet the savings incurred by improving workers health and safety and making businesses sustainable is in the billions of dollar. The knowledge, professionalism and experience of NIOSH staff cannot be measured, but the loss of these individuals who have quietly and efficiently worked behind the scenes to make all of our lives better, will be substantial. In addition to sharing these numbers, I want to offer the specific example of Dr. Jennifer Lincoln who has dedicated her life to ensuring that commercial fishermen come home safely at the end of every fishing trip. She has led national efforts to develop safety solutions, to monitor emerging issues, to make them more accessible to fishermen and to encourage researchers to get out into the field, to talk to fishermen about their needs and to provide solutions that are informed and effective. She and her team have donated time and energy (unpaid) to expanding research and developing networks that provide fishermen with tried and true solutions that have demonstrated reductions in death, injury and illness. Despite her dedication and impact, she, along with so many others have been let go. I want to thank them all for their dedication to worker communities everywhere. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead. Thanks to all of you who have made the world a better place for so many.

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  The latest round of workforce firings at CDC and other agencies will leave gaps in U.S. public health. “The goal seems to be to undermine the leadership of these agencies,” says APHA's Susan Polan. The Nation's Health reports on the impacts:https://lnkd.in/eHysNctA

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  Theodore Teske

  Health Communication Specialist at National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

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  This is my first post on LinkedIn. I am a Federal employee at NIOSH, and I received a RIF notice this week like 90% of my colleagues around the country. I see lots of similar posts from friends at NIOSH, partners of our organization, and members of the public health world who are just as stunned by this as I am. I encourage you to respond to them, support the workers, and share those messages broadly. Make no mistake, the gutting of NIOSH tears an irreparable hole in the fabric of the public health safety net that has been woven to protect this country over the past century. NIOSH serves a unique role in that structure as the sole workplace safety and health research agency in the nation. We live out our mission daily: develop new knowledge in the field of occupational safety and health and to transfer that knowledge into practice. The enthusiasm, dedication, and love, yes love, with which we pursue that mission has been evident in every project I’ve worked on and every staff member I’ve worked with. Believe us when we say we are heartbroken to see this agency torn apart and our partnerships left to wither like neglected crops; the fruit left unable to be harvested and used by our nation’s workers. Working for NIOSH is the only job I’ve ever had. I came to NIOSH in 1999 from a completely backwards path. I was a broadcasting major whose family worked in the mining industry, and I knew firsthand the hazards the industry poses to the people who work in it. The mission immediately resonated with me based on the stories I heard around the kitchen table from my parents and grandparents. I’ve now worked at NIOSH for over 25 years. I’ve had the distinct privilege to work on projects in some of the most hazardous industries and hardest workers in the United States including miners, commercial fishermen, and oil and gas roughnecks. I’ve been able to serve on the emergency response task force for the greatest public health crisis of our times, COVID-19. I’ve been able to learn from world-renowned experts in occupational safety and health and our industry counterparts. It has been a career that has given me a passion for helping people, seeking practical solutions to what seem to be intransigent problems, and communicating the results to see the impact it has on the daily life of workers. Now as anger turns to sadness, it also turns into resolve. I know my colleagues and I will not sit silently as the current administration writes our epitaph. I know our partners in industry will not stand by to see the tangible benefits of our work be discarded by people who don’t know or understand what the work we do means to workers in every industry across the country. We will convey the importance of our agency to whoever will listen, we will help them see the connection between our research and healthier American workers. And should these blunt and thoughtless cuts stand, we will continue to support the mission wherever we take root again.#NIOSH#OSH#RIF

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  For weeks, I’ve urged HR- and wellbeing-focused professionals to take stock of what our professional associations are and aren’t doing regarding current events that undermine employee wellbeing. ACOEM is one I’ve mentioned, and I’m glad to see them mobilizing. I’m hoping others will follow suit. 

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  We are reaching out to provide you with an important update from ACOEM."We are deeply concerned about the recent staffing reductions at agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)."In the wake of these reductions, many of you have expressed concerns about the specialty of occupational and environmental medicine (OEM), the residency pipeline, and even the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) itself. The current climate is tenuous, and we want to keep you informed about the facts as we understand them."Please read the full Press Release:https://lnkd.in/eUGAgJxe#JOEM#ACOEM

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  We are reaching out to provide you with an important update from ACOEM."We are deeply concerned about the recent staffing reductions at agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)."In the wake of these reductions, many of you have expressed concerns about the specialty of occupational and environmental medicine (OEM), the residency pipeline, and even the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) itself. The current climate is tenuous, and we want to keep you informed about the facts as we understand them."Please read the full Press Release:https://lnkd.in/eUGAgJxe#JOEM#ACOEM

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  Sources confirm that nearly all civilian positions at theNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health have been eliminated, raising serious concerns about the future of workplace health and safety research in the United States.Learn more in this AIHA News Article:https://lnkd.in/eRkesM5b#NIOSH#OccupationalHygiene#CDC#PublicHealth

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  Haley Cionfolo

  Graduate Research Assistant and MPH Candidate at the Rollins School of Public Health

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  Today, "Public Health Hiring Help" hit 2,000 subscribers and also shared its 500th full-time position. This is a bittersweet achievement, especially with new RIFs ripping through HHS agencies. It is simply not enough. Now more than ever, we must band together. If your company has vacancies for early-career folks with public health skillsets, please reach out to be included in the next edition of "Public Health Hiring Help". Moreover, if you know recently-affected early-career public health professionals, feel free to share the link below within your networks. The newsletter may not be able to help everyone, and public health jobs are becoming more and more competitive, but, if "Public Health Hiring Help" can give folks even just a little bit of hope, that is certainly something.https://lnkd.in/egYSWHTW

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  Important Update from ACOEM – Staffing cuts at key HHS agencies, including NIOSH, have raised serious concerns for the future of occupational and environmental medicine.#OccEnvMed#NIOSH ACOEM's leadership is responding with swift advocacy, collaboration with national partners, and direct outreach to policymakers. We’re committed to protecting residency programs, supporting medical professionals, and safeguarding the future of our specialty. Learn how we're taking action and what’s ahead: https://lnkd.in/gAp6XYZc

  ACOEM | ACOEM Response to HHS and NIOSH Significant Reductions

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