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Worker injured by wall falling on him in Kaysville

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 11:07pm

KAYSVILLE — A 29-year-old man was flown to Ogden Regional Medical Center after a wall fell on top of him at a construction site Tuesday morning.

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Workplace meth use highest in West

Shari Roan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, September 2, 2011 - 3:35pm

Workplace drug testing data show methamphetamine continues to be a significant problem in the Western states.

In data released Friday of U.S. workplace drug-screening tests in 2010, Hawaii ranked first in the highest rates of positive screens for methamphetamine -- 410 percent greater than the national average.

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SLC firm may help companies control employee use of smartphones at work?

Deborah M. Todd Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 1:12pm

As smartphones, iPads and other portable devices allow consumers to literally join themselves at the hip to the Internet, it's increasingly common to catch people checking email, updating Facebook or even peeking at X-rated sites just about anywhere.

Including at work.

A survey on employees' Web-surfing habits found 52 percent of the 2,500 people queried were pretty sure others use their personal devices to look for new jobs and 42 percent thought people use them to look at porn.

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Daniel Cross commutes daily from his home in Boca Raton, Florida, to his office in Sunrise, Florida. Cross puts on his seat belt before he begins his commute from his office at the end of his work day. (Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald/MCT)

Workers resigned to long commutes

Douglas Hanks, The Miami Herald McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 10:38am

MIAMI -- Commuting bothers Daniel Cross. But working doesn't.

So he drives 40 miles each morning from Boca Raton to an electronics plant in Sunrise, where he has worked since losing a job much closer to home two years ago.

"I can't complain about it," said Cross, an electronics engineer. "I'm just lucky to be employed."

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Intermountain Healthcare receives workplace award

Press release

Last updated Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 10:25am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Gallup Organization has chosen Intermountain Healthcare as one of 29 companies world-wide, and the only organization in Utah, to earn the Gallup Great Workplace Award for 2011.

The Gallup Great Workplace Award recognizes the best-performing workforces in the world. Applicants' results are compared across a workplace research database composed of millions of work teams in more than 100 countries. A panel of workplace experts assesses the applicants' results to select the winners.

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Texas may allow workers to bring guns to work

Jaime Adame, Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 11:21am

Texas state lawmakers are considering a proposal that would allow workers to drive onto company property with guns in their vehicles.

The measure has won approval in the Texas Senate by a 30-to-1 vote and is pending before the Texas House. Schools would be exempt.

"We don't call it guns at work. We call it the commuter safety bill," said Alice Tripp, legislative director for the Texas State Rifle Association, the state affiliate of the National Rifle Association.

She noted that 13 states have enacted similar legislation.

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