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Sick of work? Or is work making you sick?

Here's a look at several irritants at work that can make you sick...and we're not talking about your boss, or that crud you can get out of the vending nachines.
Written by Harry Fuller, Contributor on

Here's a look at several irritants at work that can make you sick...and we're not talking about your boss, or that crud you can get out of the vending nachines.

The publicity for this issue was prompted by a World Health Organization report that was issued as part of Public Health Week. Apparently even insurers are now aware that healtheir workplaces can save them money. So where are the greentech companies looking at the air we breath, the furniture and carpet off-gassing, those nasty little smell-good chemicals they spray around the restrooms, the filters in the high-rise air circ system, the cleaning fluids the night-time clean-up crews use? And that's before se tart debating the effgects of flouirescent lights now that incandescents are becoming obsolete, and LEDs aren't quite ready for the big-time.

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