June 17, 2014 at 08:23 PM
NIOSH chief John Howard is pushing as a front-and-center issue for employers both nationally and overseas that the safety and health of all employees is a key sustainable business practice, a notion that conforms with the agency head's broader view of a need for “Total Worker Health” that far exceeds the bounds of OSHA compliance and which he says is vital to the world's work force and economic performance.