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(TRANSLATION) MS. LIOCE-MATA: “Well, many thanks María and many thanks José. Good afternoon to all and the public present here today. For me it is a great pleasure to visit again this beautiful island with its people as warm as its climate. And I really want to appreciate the presence this afternoon to each one of you for sharing your time on this thirteenth occasion of this national forum of NORA that is taking place here in Puerto Rico. I want to welcome you in the name of Dr. John Howard who is the director of NIOSH for sharing with us his clients on this afternoon and also to talk a little about what NIOSH is and what NORA is, in a brief form. NIOSH is the National Instutite of Health and Occupational Safety. It is a small federal agency that forms part of the center for the control of diseases--prevention and control of diseases, CDC, whose most important function is the realization of recommendations and investigations of all accidents and diseases 18
elated to work. NIOSH has an important labor from the view point of services, but eighty percent of its resources of its personnel are dedicated principally to the area of investigation. We will mention a little about what are the antecedents of NORA which is the National Agency of Occupational Investigation. And we will speak a little of its history, how it was initiated. Around the year 1994 the agency went through some hard times, thus around the year 1995 some of the leaders who formed our institution decided to meet with a group of persons who were also related to the area of health and security. And they said they had to do something new, something different, something to be able to respond to the threat that was presented at that moment in the agency. And they decided to listen. As Maria has mentioned, listen to the ideas and proposals not only of the union organizations and to the traditional members that had been working, but also to all those 19 individuals, workers, government organizations,
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comprises a series of serious hazar
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the fine and continue following the
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MR. SKERRETT: Thank you very much.
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al no poder obligar al empleado a h
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skeletal injuries and in absenteeis
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OSHO. And I am also an industrial e
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Society of Professionals of Prevent
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working with another employer expos
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aerosol of aluminum. They made and
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específicamente como parte de una
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ecomendamos se han realizados. Yo s
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presentar al señor Jorge Ríos. Ya
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Ciencias Médicas para evaluación.
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que estamos haciendo es la Hepatiti
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mencionados, propongo la investigac
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expected that other patterns are fa
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Como pueden ver la Universidad de P
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del trabajador, incluyendo el compo
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las exposiciones a productos como p
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government. But there are an import
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occupies the fifth position in the
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MR. GONZALEZ: “Buenas tardes”.
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eferencia a la estabilidad de la es
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ocurrir una muerte facilmente. Por
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in the Convention Center where I ha
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day verifying and checking that thi
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going to complicate things, let’s
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Seguro Social. Reconociendo que el
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125 gasolina, teniendo empleo mient
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127 pueden existir, pero si no exis
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129 al reclamante una evaluación j
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due to disability. The code for man
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client. What is it that he wants, r
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incapacity are the muscular or the
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proper response capability. While r
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employees. Thanks. MR. SKERRETT:
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nombre donde supuestamente va la pe
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sugerir temas. Y recursos para esos
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signs those cards. Finally I believ
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made their presentation. If there i
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trascendencia para nuestra Isla. 14
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seguridad como cultura, que es desd
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Medical Sciences Campus , the Gradu
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important to speak of the investiga
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at the business level. When we pres
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con la salud y la seguridad de nues
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lo que vemos es un aumento, pero ma
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occupational accident. What happens
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problems, we have to analyze and se
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evaluation of environmental stresse
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chemical exposures. Specifically in
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a few words about some of the highl
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a very long ceremony, but I would a
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MR. CARPENA: Yes, I’m going to gi
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