February 2009
An Occupational and Environmental Health Network Publication
Welcome to OEHN’s Occupational Health Update email. At OEHN we are interested in providing valuable Occupational Health news to keep you up to date and enhance your knowledge. To this end, OEHN’s staff will research and provide current Occupational Health news worthy information. Look for OEHN’s Occupational Health Update in your email folder each month. We hope you enjoy and please let us know if there are any topics that you would like us to focus on.
An Office Building Occupant's Guide to Indoor Air Quality
This guide is intended to help people who work in office buildings learn about the factors that contribute to indoor air quality and comfort problems including the roles of building managers and occupants in maintaining a good indoor environment. In this article you will learn What You Can Do to Improve the Indoor Air in Your office and What to do if You Maintain an Office.
Find out more about Indoor Office Building Air Quality.
Surviving Employees: Strategies for Coping with Workplace Change
What happens to the employees who remain after a reduction in the workforce? Most employers do a good job of providing a safety net to the laid-off employees including, counseling, outplacement, extension of benefits, etc. However, an organization cannot forget about the tremendous psychological effects staff reductions have on surviving employees.
Save Money by Addressing Employee Drug Problems
Use of illegal drugs and misuse of prescription drugs negatively affect workers’ well-being and productivity and hurt employers’ bottom lines. But because of the stigma associated with illicit drug use, both employers and employees are often reluctant to address substance use disorders in the workplace. Employers can mitigate the problems and reduce costs by promoting employee access to substance abuse treatment. Investing in substance abuse treatment can yield savings that exceed costs by a ratio of 12 to 1. Find out more.
Evaluating Stress in the Workplace – A Questionnaire
Take this Stress Test and rate yourself on how you typically react in each of the work situations listed. There are no right or wrong answers. Go there now.
Five New Realities of Disease Management
Over the past decade, Managed Care Options (MCO) have turned to disease management to improve outcomes for patients as well as to gain financial returns. Now experienced industry observers are asking whether disease management is experiencing backlash or if it has reached the tipping point.
In particular, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) lowered its projected savings target for the Medicare Health Support Program from 5% to budget neutrality, announcing that the project had not met its savings goal. Phase 1 ended August 31, 2008, and CMS is still assessing the results.
Disease management strategies still have benefits, but plans and employers must face new realities in order to truly put DM in context. Find out more.
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