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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:10:55 -0000
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Sun Exposure, Prevention and Workers Compensation
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Sun Exposure, Prevention and Workers Compensation
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The first day of summer brings attention
to working outside, sun exposure and the
risk of skin cancer. Workers Compensation
coverage offers a unique opportunity to
provide affirmative action to prevent,
detect and treat high risk workers before
the disease takes a fatal course.
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While working outside has the connotation
of working in a clean air and healthy
environment, the reality is quite the
opposite. With a reduction of the world's
ozone layer, workers exposed to the sun
are at an increase risk of developing skin
cancer at an even shorter exposure time.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
just published recommendations for sunscreens.
This initial first step will most likely
expand the government's roll in getting skin
cancer under control. In the meantime, exposed
and diagnosed workers must rely upon the
workers' compensation programs for treatment
and benefits as a result of occupational
induced skin cancer resulting from the
occupational exposure to the the sun.
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Workers' Compensation insurance companies and
employers would do well to heed the government's
recommendations and take affirmative action to
protect employees and provide medical
evaluations for medical monitoring and
surveillance. That action may include: avoiding
exposure to the sun, seek regulation medical
monitoring and mandating the use of sunscreens
in the workplace. The risk of sun exposure is
well known and employers should be encourage to
protect workers from such obvious and deadly
common place exposures.
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Article With Links:
http://tinyurl.com/3h7egw8
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