Five incentive leaders, including three Australian companies, are being honored Sept. 23 at the Motivation Show.
Imagine this: A small-town retail store owner struggling to find responsible, dedicated employees is approached by a key employee who generally is engaged in her job and has tenure. She asks for four weeks off for what in the employer’s mind is minor surgery.
Although Office Depot’s warehouse facilities have always been in compliance with OSHA standards, by 2004, the company’s managers decided more could be done to lower their accident rate and reverse the company’s steady increase in claims for worker’s compensation and disability insurance.
The Texas-based company joins the Washington Division of URS Corp., Georgia-Pacific, General Electric Co., the U.S. Postal Service, and Dow Chemical Co. in the program.
One of the goals of the renewed agreement will be conveying civilian workforce safety and health best practices and injury/illness reduction lessons to soldiers where appropriate, the agency said.
During the 2005-2006 flu season, only 42 percent of surveyed health care workers received a flu vaccination despite their increased risk of exposure to the contagious and potentially deadly infection.
Beginning today through Aug. 30, each ABF employee will receive a special letter of appreciation and will have the opportunity to win an HDTV, GPS unit, or Maglite flashlight in a special drawing in their honor. ABF service centers also will be hosting events such as cookouts and other forms of recognition.
"This should be a call to action for all health plans and employers to
help workers quit tobacco. It's clear that physical health and fiscal
health go hand-in-hand," said Dr. Mike Crutcher, Oklahoma's Secretary
of Health and Commissioner of Health.
"Safety is important to both the union members and contractors to
ensure the health of workers and in building high quality
construction," said Minnesota LECET Chairman Ron Thornburg.
Cash prizes will be used to reduce accidents in this sector -- among the highest for all trades in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, its Labor Department reports.
Employers globally are facing challenges and needs posed by baby-boom generation employees. A new Penn State study of 208 U.S. employers found a wide range of strategies used to recruit and retain older workers, rather than a single approach.
The proposed legislation "is about encouraging investment in safety through the purchase and installation of technologies on trucks and buses that have been tested and proven to work" said CVSA Executive Director Stephen F. Campbell. "It will certainly help reduce heavy truck fatalities which have been hovering around 5,000 per year for the last 10 years."
As more employees work remotely, the number of workers killed in driving accidents should decline.
Workplace safety professionals who want the ability to interact with each other more than just once a year at trade shows and conferences now have a new resource.
The second most popular response when asked what would make them more productive on the job was "enhanced health and wellness program" (10 percent).
Many respondents indicated that their hospital had achieved hand hygiene compliance of 70 percent or higher before as well as after patient contact.
Speeding is a factor in about one-third of all crashes, and costs society about $40 billion annually. Reducing speed not only saves lives, but also saves energy, GHSA said, recommending to Congress other changes to federal behavioral highway safety programs, as well.
The aim of the two-day event is to provide attendees with a "map" of resources that employers and government officials can use to prevent workplace hazards in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), according to Pilar Cancela, director general of Industrial Relations.