ACOEM, Underwriters Laboratories Offer Road Map for Integrating Health and Safety Efforts

The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Underwriters Laboratories have released a paper recommending that employers integrate employee health efforts with safety efforts in order to cut costs from workers' compensation and other areas. The two agencies plan to release the policy statement as a journal article in the college's Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine this month, but the test is available ahead of print here. The authors write that "health impacts safety and safety impacts health — the two, when properly integra...