1. Lancet. 1987 Nov 14;2(8568):1153. Testicular cancer in leather tanners exposed to dimethylform... more 1. Lancet. 1987 Nov 14;2(8568):1153. Testicular cancer in leather tanners exposed to dimethylformamide. Levin SM, Baker DB, Landrigan PJ, Monaghan SV, Frumin E, Braithwaite M, Towne W. PMID: 2890054 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Publication Types: ...
Hispanic Hotel Housekeeper Injuries: A Labor Union and University Collaborate to Address the Occu... more Hispanic Hotel Housekeeper Injuries: A Labor Union and University Collaborate to Address the Occupational Health Needs of a Vulnerable Worker Population. Recent studies show that hotel workers suffer higher injury rates than service workers overall, and that hotel housekeepers in particular experience an increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Current trends in hotel room luxury upgrades and the consequential increase in workload and work speed may be causes for this increased risk to housekeepers, who are overwhelmingly female, predominantly women of color, and very often immigrant workers. Using employer workplace injury records (OSHA 300 logs) and employment data for hotels with collective bargaining agreements, university researchers and the hotel workers' union UNITE HERE performed risk of injury analysis by demographic subgroups. Newly released data from 2002-2005 indicates race/ethnicity and gender disparities in the risk of injuries to U.S. workers in the ful...
Background: Hotel employees have relatively higher rates of occupational injury and sustain more ... more Background: Hotel employees have relatively higher rates of occupational injury and sustain more severe injuries than most other service workers. Methods: OSHA log incidents from a sample of 50 unionized hotels drawn from 5 hotel companies for a three-year period were analyzed to calculate injury rates by job, company, race/ethnicity and sex, with a focus on room cleaning work. Injuries were classified as musculoskeletal, acute trauma, or other injuries. Denominators were constructed from the hotel workforce rosters. Multivariate Poisson regression models were used to evaluate the independent effects of demographic factors, job title, and company. Results: A total of 2,865 injuries were identified from OSHA logs for those employed during one or more years during 2003-2005, totaling 55,183 person-years of observation. The overall injury rate was 5.2 injuries per 100 worker-years. The rate was highest for Hispanics (6.4/100), housekeepers (7.9/100), female Hispanic housekeepers (10.6/...
Workers at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Hilton experience hazardous working condit... more Workers at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Hilton experience hazardous working conditions, low wages, limited health care access and a work environment hostile to their demands for union representation. Increasing political participation since 2006 by LAX Hilton workers and community allies has yielded improvements in government and employer policies affecting the health and welfare of LAX-area hotel employees. Working conditions at the LAX Hilton differ markedly from Hilton Hotels that are owned and operated by the Hilton Corporation and that have collective bargaining agreements with UNITE HERE, the union representing hotel workers. The Hilton Corporation operates but does not own the LAX Hilton, which is non-union. Hilton-owned and operated hotels that are also unionized have taken steps to reduce housekeeper workloads through joint labor-management policies and practices. This presentation compares injury rates from the LAX Hilton to lower rates from union hotels tha...
Hotel employers and employees across the United States and Canada have made progress on workplace... more Hotel employers and employees across the United States and Canada have made progress on workplace health and safety through collective bargaining agreements at full service hotels with UNITE HERE, the union representing hotel workers. Contract language improvements in varying properties include a decrease in the number of rooms cleaned under certain conditions; inclusion of the text of the OSHA General Duty Clause as a provision of the collective bargaining agreement; ergonomic interventions for kitchen equipment and tools; counting of rollaway beds and cots as part of a room quota; and replacement of heavy duvets and triple sheeting with fitted sheets and lighter bedding. Hotel workers actively participated in these changes -- through grievances, collaboration with ergonomic experts and union health and safety staff to measure hazards on the job, performing worker pain surveys, talking with the media, holding meetings with hotel general managers to demand lighter workloads, and by ...
Emerging evidence strongly implicates increasingly excessive workloads in the rising rates of mus... more Emerging evidence strongly implicates increasingly excessive workloads in the rising rates of musculoskeletal disorders among hotel housekeepers. A new analysis of hotel employer records of housekeeper injuries, combined with evidence from earlier surveys, reveal that housekeepers face disproportionate rates of workplace injury, with strains and sprains as the leading type of injury, accounting for nearly half of all housekeeper cases. The contribution of working conditions to these cases is also evident. In our analysis, overexertion is the second leading cause of housekeeper injuries. In addition, recent detailed biomechanical evaluations of working conditions, the first ever reported in the United States, likewise implicate typical housekeeper tasks – especially bedmaking – as the leading contributors to the growth of housekeeper injuries. Analysis of Employer Records Data extracted from OSHA-mandated records of employee injuries maintained by the five biggest national companies ...
1. Lancet. 1987 Nov 14;2(8568):1153. Testicular cancer in leather tanners exposed to dimethylform... more 1. Lancet. 1987 Nov 14;2(8568):1153. Testicular cancer in leather tanners exposed to dimethylformamide. Levin SM, Baker DB, Landrigan PJ, Monaghan SV, Frumin E, Braithwaite M, Towne W. PMID: 2890054 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Publication Types: ...
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1990
Occupational bladder cancer due to aniline dye intermediates such as beta-naphthylamine and benzi... more Occupational bladder cancer due to aniline dye intermediates such as beta-naphthylamine and benzidine has long been known; benzidine congeners (o-tolidine and o-dianisidine) are highly suspect. Among 400 men from the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) Dyers locals in New York and New Jersey screened over a 4-year period, two cases of bladder cancer were detected. (Microscopic hematuria, not cytological evaluation, prompted further investigation.) Before a 1984 ACTWU screening program in North Carolina, three workers from the same plant self-reported bladder cancers. Another member, with inconclusive screening results, was diagnosed 2 years later. For these six cases, the mean age at detection was 56.5 years (age range, 38 to 79 years), a decade earlier than age at diagnosis of nonoccupational bladder cancer in men. The average latency from onset of exposure to diagnosis was 23.3 years. These cancers provide evidence to support the initiation of screening programs for high-risk workers. To overcome the emotional and economic disincentives faced by potential victims of occupational bladder cancer, training programs are needed. Worker involvement is required, through trade union representation where possible, to assure reliable training and the equitable distribution of screening and treatment costs.
1. Lancet. 1987 Nov 14;2(8568):1153. Testicular cancer in leather tanners exposed to dimethylform... more 1. Lancet. 1987 Nov 14;2(8568):1153. Testicular cancer in leather tanners exposed to dimethylformamide. Levin SM, Baker DB, Landrigan PJ, Monaghan SV, Frumin E, Braithwaite M, Towne W. PMID: 2890054 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Publication Types: ...
Hispanic Hotel Housekeeper Injuries: A Labor Union and University Collaborate to Address the Occu... more Hispanic Hotel Housekeeper Injuries: A Labor Union and University Collaborate to Address the Occupational Health Needs of a Vulnerable Worker Population. Recent studies show that hotel workers suffer higher injury rates than service workers overall, and that hotel housekeepers in particular experience an increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Current trends in hotel room luxury upgrades and the consequential increase in workload and work speed may be causes for this increased risk to housekeepers, who are overwhelmingly female, predominantly women of color, and very often immigrant workers. Using employer workplace injury records (OSHA 300 logs) and employment data for hotels with collective bargaining agreements, university researchers and the hotel workers' union UNITE HERE performed risk of injury analysis by demographic subgroups. Newly released data from 2002-2005 indicates race/ethnicity and gender disparities in the risk of injuries to U.S. workers in the ful...
Background: Hotel employees have relatively higher rates of occupational injury and sustain more ... more Background: Hotel employees have relatively higher rates of occupational injury and sustain more severe injuries than most other service workers. Methods: OSHA log incidents from a sample of 50 unionized hotels drawn from 5 hotel companies for a three-year period were analyzed to calculate injury rates by job, company, race/ethnicity and sex, with a focus on room cleaning work. Injuries were classified as musculoskeletal, acute trauma, or other injuries. Denominators were constructed from the hotel workforce rosters. Multivariate Poisson regression models were used to evaluate the independent effects of demographic factors, job title, and company. Results: A total of 2,865 injuries were identified from OSHA logs for those employed during one or more years during 2003-2005, totaling 55,183 person-years of observation. The overall injury rate was 5.2 injuries per 100 worker-years. The rate was highest for Hispanics (6.4/100), housekeepers (7.9/100), female Hispanic housekeepers (10.6/...
Workers at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Hilton experience hazardous working condit... more Workers at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Hilton experience hazardous working conditions, low wages, limited health care access and a work environment hostile to their demands for union representation. Increasing political participation since 2006 by LAX Hilton workers and community allies has yielded improvements in government and employer policies affecting the health and welfare of LAX-area hotel employees. Working conditions at the LAX Hilton differ markedly from Hilton Hotels that are owned and operated by the Hilton Corporation and that have collective bargaining agreements with UNITE HERE, the union representing hotel workers. The Hilton Corporation operates but does not own the LAX Hilton, which is non-union. Hilton-owned and operated hotels that are also unionized have taken steps to reduce housekeeper workloads through joint labor-management policies and practices. This presentation compares injury rates from the LAX Hilton to lower rates from union hotels tha...
Hotel employers and employees across the United States and Canada have made progress on workplace... more Hotel employers and employees across the United States and Canada have made progress on workplace health and safety through collective bargaining agreements at full service hotels with UNITE HERE, the union representing hotel workers. Contract language improvements in varying properties include a decrease in the number of rooms cleaned under certain conditions; inclusion of the text of the OSHA General Duty Clause as a provision of the collective bargaining agreement; ergonomic interventions for kitchen equipment and tools; counting of rollaway beds and cots as part of a room quota; and replacement of heavy duvets and triple sheeting with fitted sheets and lighter bedding. Hotel workers actively participated in these changes -- through grievances, collaboration with ergonomic experts and union health and safety staff to measure hazards on the job, performing worker pain surveys, talking with the media, holding meetings with hotel general managers to demand lighter workloads, and by ...
Emerging evidence strongly implicates increasingly excessive workloads in the rising rates of mus... more Emerging evidence strongly implicates increasingly excessive workloads in the rising rates of musculoskeletal disorders among hotel housekeepers. A new analysis of hotel employer records of housekeeper injuries, combined with evidence from earlier surveys, reveal that housekeepers face disproportionate rates of workplace injury, with strains and sprains as the leading type of injury, accounting for nearly half of all housekeeper cases. The contribution of working conditions to these cases is also evident. In our analysis, overexertion is the second leading cause of housekeeper injuries. In addition, recent detailed biomechanical evaluations of working conditions, the first ever reported in the United States, likewise implicate typical housekeeper tasks – especially bedmaking – as the leading contributors to the growth of housekeeper injuries. Analysis of Employer Records Data extracted from OSHA-mandated records of employee injuries maintained by the five biggest national companies ...
1. Lancet. 1987 Nov 14;2(8568):1153. Testicular cancer in leather tanners exposed to dimethylform... more 1. Lancet. 1987 Nov 14;2(8568):1153. Testicular cancer in leather tanners exposed to dimethylformamide. Levin SM, Baker DB, Landrigan PJ, Monaghan SV, Frumin E, Braithwaite M, Towne W. PMID: 2890054 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Publication Types: ...
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1990
Occupational bladder cancer due to aniline dye intermediates such as beta-naphthylamine and benzi... more Occupational bladder cancer due to aniline dye intermediates such as beta-naphthylamine and benzidine has long been known; benzidine congeners (o-tolidine and o-dianisidine) are highly suspect. Among 400 men from the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) Dyers locals in New York and New Jersey screened over a 4-year period, two cases of bladder cancer were detected. (Microscopic hematuria, not cytological evaluation, prompted further investigation.) Before a 1984 ACTWU screening program in North Carolina, three workers from the same plant self-reported bladder cancers. Another member, with inconclusive screening results, was diagnosed 2 years later. For these six cases, the mean age at detection was 56.5 years (age range, 38 to 79 years), a decade earlier than age at diagnosis of nonoccupational bladder cancer in men. The average latency from onset of exposure to diagnosis was 23.3 years. These cancers provide evidence to support the initiation of screening programs for high-risk workers. To overcome the emotional and economic disincentives faced by potential victims of occupational bladder cancer, training programs are needed. Worker involvement is required, through trade union representation where possible, to assure reliable training and the equitable distribution of screening and treatment costs.
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