Traditionally, safety professionals have driven ergonomic improvements in an effort to reduce injuries, but all along they have been the wrong people to do this.
Workplace alcohol abuse need not be accepted as an inevitable cost of doing business.
You can maintain your program effectiveness by understanding which drugs are being abused and modifying your testing panel based on that information.
There are many steps in implementing one for the workplace. Sometimes the last step is the hardest.
Sometimes you cannot find a solution that works. Admit it and keep trying to find answers, but know that some complaints you may never be able to solve.
Companies see advantages from linking safety and wellness.
The hardware chain is facing a $69,300 penalty for violating safety standards in a Chicago location.
If source sound levels increase for any reason, it is very simple to add a second layer of flexible sound curtain to an existing one or even to augment an existing rigid wall.
A study published in the September issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine evaluated this among workers in the Detroit area, which was hit hard in the recent recession.
About 70 employees work at Rich Products Corporation's facility in Waycross, Ga., which opened Aug. 19, 2002, and has completed a decade with no lost-time injuries.
Many businesses aren't sure how they can use the program, which is meant to keep injured workers on the job in light-duty positions.
The move will save $20 million in fiscal 2013, and five ideas submitted by employees will save an estimated $5.53 million, the agency announced Aug. 22.
The director of Cal/OSHA's parent agency said the plan will solve several problems "before projected rate increases push California to a crisis situation."
The Lloyd's-based insurance group Navigators Syndicate is writing the new directors and officers product to cover civil fines and penalties assessed under sections of Sarbanes Oxley, Dodd-Frank, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The National Academy of Social Insurance reported it resulted mainly from a 2.1 percent drop in medical benefits for injured workers.
They're 28 percent less likely to suffer a non-fatal occupational injury, according to a NIOSH study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
The new chair of the National Governors Association, Delaware's Jack Markell, announced the new initiative as the association ended its annual meeting.
The program has paid more in benefits than it took in each year since 2009. The Congressional Budget Office looked at the options to see how the program could be returned to financial stability.
The Workers Compensation Research Institute released its "Return to Work after a Lump-Sum Settlement" study July 11.
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association will restore $27 million to three of its employee benefit plans covered by ERISA.