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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued two new documents in March 2021 concerning COVID-19 and workplace enforcement. The first is a COVID-19 National Emphasis Program (NEP) focusing OSHA enforcement efforts on companies with the largest number of workers at serious risk of contracting the coronavirus. 

OSHA has also updated its Interim Enforcement Response Plan to prioritize using on-site workplace inspections where practical or a combination of on-site and remote methods. Prior enforcement guidance is rescinded, and the new guidance remains in effect until further notice.

Work has changed significantly during the pandemic with many employees moving to fully remote work. This environment calls for a new way of managing staff. As teams are physically separated, it becomes important for leaders to find ways to bring them together and virtual team-building activities can make a difference. Check out these suggestions from the Young Entrepreneur Council.

Chicago's Department of Business Affairs & Consumer Protection (BACP) recently launched Be Informed - Be Protected. The comprehensive campaign has flyers providing simplified tips and resources on 20 topics across a wide array of topics to protect consumers from fraud and actions to take if they have become a victim of fraud.

Click to visit BACP's Consumer Protection Homepage to view the flyers.

The City's Department of Planning & Development recently launched a Committee on Design as a part of the planning and review process for future developments. The committee's focus

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The new ten-story cancer and neuroscience center at Rush University Medical Center is well on its way to completion. The Center at 1520 W. Harrison Street, east of the Illinois Medical District, is named after Joan and Paul Rubschlager, whose donation helped fund its construction and is also the largest in the institution’s history.

Learn more about the Center's features and amenities

Rubschlager Baking was a long-time manufacturing resident of this northwest side area, which is still home to many makers and manufacturers of national and internationally known brands. The company, renowned for its cocktail rye and other hearty European style breads, began with the five Rubschlager brothers in 1913 as a neighborhood bakery. It grew to occupy an entire block at 3220 W. Grand Avenue, 'sandwiched in' by Kedzie Avenue and Augusta Boulevard.

The company got into the miniature loaf business when one of its major customers asked for its bread in yard long, hearth-baked round loaves. Because shipping would have reduced the long, delicate loaves to rubble, the company offered an alternative: the sturdier pan-baked result became the familiar cocktail bread. While you can still buy Rubschlager products, the 100-year-old company was purchased by Weston Foods of Canada in 2014.

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WORKPLACE CULTURE...Per a BISNOW article, "In Japan,

there is a word for death through overwork, karōshi, given such deaths are not infrequent among workers. In Sweden on the other hand, paid parental leave is 16 months, and the idea of your boss checking

on whether you were working hard enough would be severely frowned upon.....The two countries represent the two ends of the spectrum when it comes to white-collar office work." Click to learn more in

Scientists with Project Vesta say the special green sand in the photo could help scrub a ton of carbon dioxide from the air. The nonprofit embarked on this specific task in 2019 to help slow climate change using naturally occurring olivine—an inexpensive green mineral—over beach sand. There are only four "green sand" beaches currently - In Hawaii on Oahu, Guam, the Galapagos Islands, and in Norway. 

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