J. J. Keller® Compliance Network

This month-long observance focuses on hearing and balance disorders, and the role audiologists and regular treatment play in better hearing health.

This month-long observance brings attention to the health benefits that come with better sleep.

This month-long observance educates people on how to protect their vision.

This month is designed to create awareness about mental health and reduce the stigma surrounding illnesses like depression and bipolar disorder. Mental and behavioral health services are essential health benefits. Insurance plans should offer comparable benefits for both physical and mental health care.

While celebrating moms, take time to review laws regarding moms in the workplace. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) employers must provide “reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for [a] nursing child for one year after the child’s birth each time such employee has need to express the milk.” Employers are also required to provide “a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.”

The last Monday of May is a federal holiday set aside to honor fallen soldiers. Often, it’s also considered the unofficial start of summer. Now’s a good time to brush up on rules about paid time off (PTO), vacation, holiday pay, and flex time.

This awareness week, May 1-5, highlights resources that increase air quality awareness and encourages people to take actions that positively impact air quality.

EPA requires community water systems to deliver a Consumer Confidence Report, also known as an annual drinking water quality report, to their customers. These reports provide Americans information about their local drinking water quality.

Each owner or operator of a facility, other than a commercial storer or a disposer of PCB waste, using or storing at any one time at least 45 kilograms (99.4 pounds) of PCBs contained in PCB Container(s), or one or more PCB Transformers, or 50 or more PCB Large High or Low Voltage Capacitors must develop and maintain at the facility, or a central facility provided they are maintained at that facility, all annual records and the written annual document log of the disposition of PCBs and PCB Items. The written annual document log must be prepared for each facility by July 1 covering the previous calendar year (January through December).