Rehab the Lab

This was developed for secondary schools in Washington, but may be of interest.

http://www.lhwmp.org/home/educators/rehabthelab.aspx

Hospital's History of Violence Leads to OSHA Fine

Interesting application of the General Duty Clause...

Jul 20, 2010
OSHA has cited Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn., for failing to provide its employees with adequate safeguards against workplace violence. OSHA's action follows an inspection begun in January 2010, in response to worker complaints.

OSHA's inspection identified several instances during the past 18 months in which employees in the hospital's psychiatric ward, emergency ward, and general medical floors were injured by violent patients. In addition, there have been about 25 cases over the past five years in which hospital employees lost workdays or were put on restricted duty after being injured by patients. OSHA found that the hospital's workplace violence program was incomplete and ineffective at preventing these incidents. (More....)

You think foreign oil dependence is bad, try radionuclides

Stephanie Salter The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — This is a story of international finance and politics, involving such entities as Mo-99, Thallium 201, 73-hour half-lives and a medical industry character known as “Aunt Minnie.”This is also a story that should remind us that when we grudgingly swallow some sort of dye or offer our arm for an IV so our innards can be scanned, most of us have no clue about the infinitely complex and miraculous realm of science behind the process. (More...)