Category Archives: 2026

Occupational health is the multidisciplinary field dealing with workers’ health, safety, and welfare, focusing on preventing work-related diseases, injuries, and disabilities while promoting wellbeing. Safe workplaces are critical for 3.3 billion workers worldwide.

The nation’s top workplace safety regulator won’t be able to proactively enforce its rules this year as it grapples with a significant loss in safety inspectors, former agency officials say. Read the article in Bloomberg Law.

Apple Health Studies form the largest real-world health research platform ever built, combining iPhone and Apple Watch data with university-led science to study human health at an unprecedented scale.

Exposure scientist Rick Neitzel talks with WHYY about noise pollution and its effects on our health. He explains the physiological effects of noise, theories on how it causes harm, and some of the most common sources of damaging sound exposure.