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Drury Hotels Exclusive Hotel Sponsor of Tour of Missouri ST. LOUIS (SLFP.com), September 5, 2007 - Drury Hotels, headquartered in St. Louis, has announced that it is the exclusive hotel sponsor of the Tour of Missouri, a six-day, 600-mile pro cycling race, beginning in Kansas City on September 11 and finishing in St. Louis on September 16. The company's multi-level support includes sponsorship of the Most Aggressive Rider competition, which awards a special jersey each day to the rider who is judged by a panel of media and race entourage officials to have demonstrated the most aggressive attacks, breakaways or strategies on that stage. Upon the finish of each stage, the rider with the most votes from this elite panel is awarded the Most Agressive Rider jersey. Drury Hotels is also supporting the event with five outdoor billboards on major highways throughout Missouri, and displaying and distributing Tour of Missouri collateral materials at all 39 of its hotels across the state. "The Tour of Missouri is an exciting event which will showcase the best of what Missouri has to offer," said Chuck Drury, President & CEO of Drury Hotels. "We are proud to be a Missouri-based company and to support this outstanding event." The Tour of Missouri is a world-class bicycle race patterned after the Tour de Georgia and Amgen Tour of California. It features point-to-point racing and will ride into many cities in which Drury Hotels are located, including Kansas City, Springfield, Columbia and St. Louis. The race will feature 15 of the world' top professional cycling teams. For more information, see spotlight on St. Louis News. New Study Reports Higher Injury Rates for Hotel Workers ST. LOUIS (SLFP.com), September 5, 2007 - A new study highlights the differences in injury rates by gender, race/ethnicity or both and presented the alarming results that raise many questions as to why certain workers are getting injured at different rates. This first study ever on the differences in injury rates by race, ethnicity and gender of hotel workers in the United States utilized hotel employer records of work-related injuries and employee hiring list data. This is the largest study of hotel workers' injuries ever performed in the United States aside from data that the Department of Labor collects annually. A sample of 35 union hotels in the "full-service" sector was selected for further study of disparities in injury rates by gender and race/ethnicity. This sample includes 16,000 workers employed annually with over 700 injuries occurring each year during the 2003-2005 time period. Key Findings: The job titles included in this new injury study - room attendants, stewards/dishwashers, banquet servers and cooks/kitchen workers - represent 49% of the hotel workforce; therefore, these study findings require serious attention given the large number of workers affected in the hotel industry. Disparities by gender: injury rates of 5.5% for females compared to 3.7% for males. Disparities by race/ethnicity: injury rates of 4.9% for nonwhites compared to 3.0% for whites, with even higher rates by demographic subgroups. The combination of increased risk by gender with the increased risk by race/ethnicity suggests an even greater increased risk for women of color: Female Hispanic Stewards/Dishwashers: 10.0% Female Hispanic Room Attendants: 9.5% Female Asian Cooks: 8.9% Female Hispanic Banquet Servers: 3.9% Female Black Hotel Workers: 3.8% Importance of the Findings Along with scientific studies that show dangers to housekeepers from luxury rooms, bedding and amenities, this study looks at a variety of jobs in hotels and asks a more global question of employers -- why are injury rates of women hotel workers, workers of color and immigrant workers higher than the rates for all workers? And more importantly, what are hotel employers going to do about it? According to Dr. Lida Orta-Anes, ergonomics expert and professor at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico, "This study is a first step towards identifying who, today is doing hotel work in the United States and who is getting injured on the job. The higher injury rates for women across all jobs and for Hispanics in specific jobs is alarming. More research is needed to get at the root of these injuries and difference in rates of injury." Researchers also asked hotel employers to evaluate hazards of hotel jobs, implement existing remedies and face the challenges they have created in the hotel industry affecting workers' health and safety, and in particular the disparities in injury rates. Archived Hotel News: • Travelers Clear Air on Smoking • J.D. 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