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Businesses across the nation are preparing to start reopening their workplaces. Rick Neitzel, an expert on occupational and environmental health at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health, outlines five steps that employers and employees can take together to return to work in the safest manner possible.
As the US slowly reopens the economy, a variety of new safety measures will be needed to ensure worker safety, from engineering and administrative interventions for entire facilities down to personal protective equipment. These measures are not meant to hinder economic recovery but rather to reduce the incidence and prevalence of infectious disease to protect American workers and their families.
As part of this research partnership between Apple and the University of Michigan, Rick Neitzel is collecting data on personal listening device use and noisy environments through the Apple Research app. The hope is this research could influence policies that one day change noise pollution levels.
As Detroit continues to revitalize its urban core by razing abandoned buildings, emissions of airborne asbestos during emergency demolitions have been negligible, say University of Michigan researchers.
In an extensive analysis published in Environmental Health Perspectives, Jacob Kvasnicka explores a comparative approach that could help determine trade-offs involved in remediation alternatives.
A new collaboration between the University of Michigan and Apple aims to determine exactly how much noise pollution we experience every day.