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Modern safety management goes beyond covering traditional workplace accidents to now being equally concerned with illnesses caused on and even off the job. This section will explain what you need to know to avoid both injuries and illnesses, and to track your progress in reaching this goal.
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Older generations warned that sitting too close to the television would give you cancer; for younger whippersnappers, the warning has been updated to talking on their cell phones. The evidence is still inconclusive on that, but it seems pretty strong for “BlackBerry thumb”—a repetitive stress injury caused by too much texting—and “laptop back”—neck and shoulder […]
When a worker is injured or becomes ill on the job, it’s important to close out the claim quickly. This minimizes the employer’s costs and the impact on the employer’s experience modifier, and it is good for the worker, too, ensuring that his or her medical needs were dealt with and resolved quickly. One way […]
You know that one of the keys to minimizing your workers’ compensation costs is getting employees back to work and closing out claims. So, what’s stopping you? A survey of claims administrators published by Rising Medical Solutions in 2016 identified the major factors that claims administrators identify as problematic.
If a highly skilled worker is injured or becomes sick, it’s easy to see the monetary benefits of getting that worker back to work as soon as possible. But what about your less skilled workers? What’s the benefit of making an effort to get them back to work in a hurry? Are you better off […]
A recent study funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) found that in addition to fairly well-known negative outcomes, workers who suffer injuries that require days away from work are likely to die sooner than those who had injuries that required only medical treatment. Let’s take a look at this new […]
Summer is around the corner, and with increased temperatures come increased risk of heat stress incidents in the workplace. Workers who are exposed to extreme heat or work in hot environments indoors or outdoors, or even those engaged in strenuous physical activities may be at risk for heat stress. Heat stress can cause all sorts […]
In April, a 54-year-old worker at the Winnebago plant in Middlebury, Indiana, was struck and killed by a forklift. The worker, Ricky Schlabach, was 1 of about 70 workers who are likely to die in forklift accidents this year (71 workers were fatally injured by forklifts in 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics). […]
California’s hot season is almost here, and Cal/OSHA is reminding employers to protect workers against the state’s searing summer heat. California has had a heat illness prevention rule in place for outdoor workers since 2005; it was most recently revised in 2015.
California’s workplace fatality rates are low, compared to the rest of the nation: just 2.2 workers per 100,000, each year, compared to 3.4 per 100,000 nationally. But a new report from the AFL-CIO, “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, 2017,” shows that California is leading the nation in at least one grim statistic: […]
Dog bites are an iconic job hazard for the brave men and women of the United States Postal Service (USPS), and they appear to be on the rise. Find out which U.S. city has the dubious distinction of logging the most postal worker dog bites.