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This week's topics:
Economic Stimulus
527 Political Organizations
Agriculture Outlook
Alternative Minimum Tax - AMT (January 2007)
Alternative Minimum Tax
Amtrak
Antibiotic Use in Animals and its Impact on Human Resistance to Bacteria
Asbestos: Litigation and Legislation
Avian Flu and Emergency Preparedness (November 2005)
Aviation Industry Issues
Aviation Security
Bankruptcy Law May 2005
Bank Tying
Basel II
Biofuels (October 2007)
Biotechnology and Food Safety
Bioterrorism
Broadband Infrastructure (December 2007)
Broadband
Broadcast Flag
Business Activity Taxes
Budget Deficits
BSE/Mad Cow Disease
Campaign Finance Tools
California Greenhouse Gases and CAFE (September 2005)
CAFE Standard
CAFTA
Chemical Plant Security (April 2007)
Chemical Plant Security
China's Currency
Clean Water Act: Water Quality (October 2007)
Climate Change 2007
Clinical Drug Trials
Community-Owned Networks
Competitive Sourcing
Congestion Pricing
Consumer Credit: Credit Reports and Credit Scoring
Consumer Safety/ Food Safety/Import Safety
Corporate Taxes
Country-of-Origin Food Labeling
Cyber Security January 2006
Cyber Security
Data Mining
Data Quality Final Rules
Data Security
Data Security Breaches
Digital Software Piracy
Digital Television
Disability Insurance
Drinking Water Safety & Infrastructure
Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising
Drug Re-Importation
Drug Safety
E-Health/Information Technology
Earmarks
Economic Stimulus January 2008
Economic Stimulus Proposals
Education and Economic Growth
E-Health Information Technology
Election 2008: Democratic Presidential Candidates
Election 2008: Republican Presidential Candidates
Electronic Voting (September 2006)
Eminent Domain (August 2005)
Employee Monitoring/Workplace Privacy
Endangered Species (2005)
Employer-Based Health Care
Endangered Species
Electronic Voting
Emergency National Preparedness
Energy Efficiency/Conservation October 2005
Energy Efficiency
Energy Issues
Ergonomics
Estate Tax
Ethanol, MTBE
European Union Chemicals Policy
European Union Resources
Executive Compensation (January 2006)
Executive Order: 13422 (November 2007)
Farm Bill and Conservation
Farm Credit and the Horizon's Project
FDA Regulation of Tobacco
FERC - Standards Market Design and Structure
Financial Privacy
FOIA
Economic Costs of Flu Pandemic (April 2006)
Farm Labor (November 2007)
Food Safety and Security Post 911
Food Quality Protection Act (August 2006)
Foreign-Controlled American Debt (July 2006)
Foreign Workers: H-1B Visas
Forest Management Issues
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
Free Trade Agreements - Economic Value of (January 2006)
Fuel Cells
Fuel Economy
The Future of Employer-Based Health Benefits (December 2005)
G8 Summit June 1-3, 2003
G8 Summit Gleneagles, Scotland July 6-8, 2005
GASB 45: State and Local Governments: Post Employment Benefits (March 2006)
GSEs - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Generic Drugs
Global Warming 2005
Global Warming
Government Contractors (October 2007)
Government Contractors and Role in Federal Government
Government Contracts and Katrina (February 2006)
Government Openness
Hague Convention
Health Care Costs for Employers, Governments, Private Consumers(September 2005)
Health Care Informatics/Health Care Information Technology
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) (February 2006)
Health Care Quality
Highway Safety
Homeland Security and the Federal Workforce
Human Research Subjects
ICANN - Internet Governance (November 2005)
Identity Theft December 2007
Identity Theft Update 2005
Identity Theft
Immigration: Guest Worker Program
Immigration and the United States Economy (November 2005)
Immigration Reform Issues (March 2006)
Income Inequality and Tax Reform (June 2007)
Income Inequality
Induce Act
Intellectual Property
International Trade Agreements: Textiles
Internet Gambling
Internet Privacy
Internet Radio
Internet Sales Tax
Invasive Species
Jobless Recovery
Job Safety
Liquid Natural Gas
Lobbying Reform (November 2007)
Lobbying Reform (May 2006)
Managed Care, Hospitals, & Physicians Contracts
Mass Transit
Meat and Poultry Inspections
Media Ownership Regulations (July 2006)
Media Ownership
Medical Errors
Medical Malpractice April 2007
Medical Malpractice December 2004 Updated
Medical Malpractice
Medicare
Medicare Part D
Mercury Emissions
Minimum Wage
Multi-Pollutant Emissions
Mutual Fund Trading Practices Scandal and Fee Issues
NAFTA
Nanotech News
Nanotechnology and Safety (December 2005)
Nanotechnology
News Source Review (March 2007)
National Flood Insurance Reform
Net Neutrality (Updated June 2006)
Net Neutrality (February 2006)
New Source Review (March 2007)
New Source Review Pending Investigations
New Source Review
Nuclear Waste/Yucca Mountain (October 2006)
Obesity and Public Policy
Occupational Safety and Literacy
Offshore Oil Drilling
Oil Royalties Program
OMB and Federal Regulations
Organic Pesticides
Outsourcing Issues
Overtime Rules
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Overtime Pay
Ozone Issues
Particulate Pollution
Patent Reform (June 2007)
Patent Reform (March 2007)
Patent Reform (June 2005)
Peak Oil Debate (December 2005)
Patent Reform (August 2006)
Pension Security Issues
Phishing
Pipeline safety (Septebmer 2006)
Pipelines
Port Security (March 2006)
Postal Reform
Presidential Candidates 2004
Prescription Drug Costs
Privacy & Surveillance
Productivity
RFID - Radio Frequency Identification (April 2006)
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Reauthorizing a Federal Job Training Program - Workforce Investment Act
Regional Economies
Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH)
Regulatory Accounting
Reports and Studies on the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003
R & D
Sarbanes-Oxley and Small Business May 2006
Sarbanes-Oxley: Section 404 (May 2005)
SCHIP - State Children's Health Insurance Program
Science Ethics
Sentencing Guidelines
Shareholder Activism and Corporate Responsibility
Small Business Disaster Relief and SBA Loans
Social Security - Individual Retirement Accounts
Social Security Reform - Price Indexing
Software Piracy (June 2006)
Software Piracy
SPAM - Unsolicited E-mails
Spyware (April 2006)
Stock Option Expensing
Spectrum Management
State/Regional Economies
Steel Tariff Issues
Sub Prime Mortgages
Stem Cells, Cloning
Student Loans
Superfund Sites
Supreme Court Nominee: Harriet Miers
Supreme Court Nominee: John Roberts
Supreme Court Nominee: Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
Tax Gap / Tax Compliance (April 2006)
Tax Payer's Bill of Rights
Tax Shelters
Tax Reform/Tax Simplification February 2005
Technology Transfer
Terror Financing
Terrorism Insurance
Tort Reform
Total Maximum Daily Loads
Toxic Release Inventory (May 2006)
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines
Transportation Infrastructure (August 2007)
U.S. Competitiveness (March 2006)
Vaccination/Public Health
VOIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
Voter Identification Laws
Water Infrastructure/Water Security
Wetlands
Workplace Safety May 2006
Workplace Safety
Yucca Mountain

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Occupational Safety and Literacy

BNA's Web Watch is prepared by Laura Gordon-Murnane. E-mail suggestions for future weekly topics always welcome.

November 2002

Federal Government

Congressional Testimony
The Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions United States Senate “Occupational Safety and Health Administration's efforts to protect immigrant workers.” John L. Henshaw (February 27, 2002)

Bureau of Labor Statistics
2001 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data Industry by event or exposure (2001)

Fatal Occupational Injuries Data - Industry by transportation incidents and homicides (2001)

Fatal Occupational Injuries Data - Industry by private sector, government workers, and self-employed workers (2001)

Fatal Occupational Injuries Data - Industry by year, 1995-2001

Fatal Occupational Injuries Data - Occupation by event or exposure (2001)

Fatal Occupational Injuries Data - Occupation by transportation incidents and homicides

Fatal Occupational Injuries Data - Worker characteristics by event or exposure (2001)

Fatal Occupational Injuries Data - Event or exposure by age (2001)

Fatal Occupational Injuries Data - Event or exposure by major private industry division (2001)

Fatal Occupational Injuries Data - Primary and secondary source of injury by major private industry division (2001)

Census Bureau
The Hispanic Population in the United States Population Characteristics March 2000 (March 2001)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Worker Health Chartbook, 2000: Fatal Injury (May 2002)

Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation and Field Studies National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention New Directions in the Surveillance of Hired Farm Worker Health and Occupational Safety (1995)

ELCOSH
Electronic Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health
Provides access to fact sheets and guide manuals in both English and Spanish.

Department of Education
National Center for Education Statistics
Demographic Changes and Literacy Development in a Decade. Working Paper Series.
Stephen Reder, Barry Edmonston (2000)

General Accounting Office
Worker Protection Labor’s Efforts to Enforce Protections for Day Laborers Could Benefit from Better Data and Guidance (September 2002)
see also in Spanish

Contingent Workers: Incomes and Benefits Lag Behind Those of Rest of Workforce (June 30, 2000)

Child Labor in Agriculture: Changes Needed to Better Protect Health and Educational Opportunities (Aug. 21, 1998)

Department of Labor
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy - Office of Program Economics
Findings from the A Demographic and National Agricultural Employment Profile of Workers Survey United States Farmworkers
(NAWS) 1997-1998 Research Report No. 8 (March 2000)

National Institute for Literacy
Dr. Larry Mikulecky Response to Questions From the NIFL Workplace Discussion List October 2000

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region
Health Literacy Eileen Sullivan University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center Library, Albuquerque, NM (June 2000)

State Governments

California/OSHA
Injury & Illness Prevention Model Program for Employers with Intermittent Workers in Agriculture. CS-1CS Ag - Cal/OSHA Consultation Service 6 E&T (January 1997)


State OSHA Departments

Alaska Minnesota
Arkansas – Safety Division Missouri - The Division of Labor Standards' On-Site Safety and Health Consultation Program
Missouri - The Mine and Cave Safety and Health Section
Arizona Montana
California – Division of Occupational Safety and Health Nebraska
Colorado – Division of Oil and Public Safety Nevada - The Division of Industrial Relations