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TIPS FOR PREVENTING WORKPLACE ACCIDENTS OEHS provides the following excerpt for University Supervisors from the Arbil safety blog:  Each year, more than two million workers are injured severely enough on the job that they cannot return to work and need ongoing medical care. As a supervisor, it’s your job to help protect employees from accidents […]

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[bs_row class=”row”][bs_col class=”col-sm-8″] TO FLOSS OR NOT TO FLOSS? By Libby Mitchell, social media coordinator, University of Utah Health Care To floss or not to floss? That is the question after a flood of articles alleging there’s little scientific evidence that flossing works.  The pieces cite a letter sent by the Department of Health and […]

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[bs_row class=”row”][bs_col class=”col-sm-8″] DON’T BLAME THE NUTRIENT, BLAME THE GAME By Christine Altimarino, PEAK testing specialist Have you ever noticed how specific nutrients will get targeted and labeled as the blight of the Standard American Diet? This is a grave oversimplification happening on a large scale that can even affect how foods are produced. Think […]

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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH VEHICLE OPERATION[bs_row class=”row”][bs_col class=”col-sm-4″] [/bs_col] [bs_col class=”col-sm-8″] Reminder to university employees operating university vehicles: Operators and all passengers must wear seat belts while in an operating vehicle. It is never acceptable to transport passengers in the back (or bed) of a pickup truck or similar vehicle. The reason why is safety. Research […]

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[bs_row class=”row”][bs_col class=”col-sm-8″] SO YOU WANT TO RIDE TO THE U? By Blake Densley, M.S. student To those of you who ride your mountain bikes to the U from Draper on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, this article may not be relevant to you. For those of us mere mortals looking to step up our activity […]

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RECEIVING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS[bs_row class=”row”][bs_col class=”col-sm-4″] [/bs_col] [bs_col class=”col-sm-8″]Hundreds of packages are shipped to and from campus daily.  A small but important subset of these goods have been identified as posing an elevated or significant risk to public health, property and the environment while in transit.  Numerous federal regulations exists to ensure the safe transportation of […]

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[bs_row class=”row”][bs_col class=”col-sm-8″] LACTATE THRESHOLD TRAINING By Blake Densley Contrary to what you think, that lactic acid or lactate burn you may have been experiencing on that hard bike ride or run  is not due to lactate. What is lactate you ask? In the exercising body, proteins in the muscle generate lactate as a means […]

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FIRE SAFETY AND UTAH’S JULY 24 STATE HOLIDAY REMINDER for July 24 holiday:  The university and surrounding Salt Lake City neighborhoods are still prohibited from using any kind of fireworks. (See the map here).  Hot and dry conditions warrant extreme care along the University’s east bench especially. Fireworks and open fires of any kind are not […]

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