Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is upon us, and disguise is on my mind. Let me explain. I’ve been mulling over the concept of “covering”—a word that is new to me in this context but has apparently been around since 1963, when it was coined by sociologist Erving Goffman. “Covering” refers to the practice of […]
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A Totally Cool New Way to Look at Worker Health
Total Worker Health may be the coolest thing since Nutella. (Chocolate and hazelnut! Spreadable!) What, you ask, is Total Worker Health? It’s an initiative out of the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—aka, NIOSH. The goal is to convince employers to […]