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You can stop wondering why there is a recommended rating for excess risk in this occupation.
occupational risk
Formaldehyde and Cancer
Study Reinforces Links Between Formaldehyde and Cancer – ProPublica
The study shows that workers exposed to higher amounts of formaldehyde had a 37 percent greater risk of death [1] from blood and lymphatic cancers, and a 78 percent greater risk of leukemia than those with lower exposures. NCI researchers still have not discovered the biological mechanism by which formaldehyde exposure can cause leukemia.
Employment Status Still Matters
Losing Job May Be Hazardous to Health – NYTimes.com
The connection between unemployment and health has been known for some time. Stay sharp and pay attention to occupational status, especially during the recession.
Tree Care Operations and Death
Work-Related Fatalities Associated with Tree Care Operations — United States, 1992–2007
1285 if you’re counting.
Occupational Risk – More on Journalists
Journalist Roxana Saberi will likely be spending the next 8 years in an Iranian prison. How often we forget, or take for granted, some of the amazing rights we have in the US.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
— The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
I have been sensitive to the plight of journalists worldwide working in hostile environments since my offshore insurance days. If you want to learn more I’ve added a new link category titled Occupational Risk that includes a link to a website with 17 years worth of data on dead journalists.
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