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Employees Return to Work 4 Months Earlier
A recent study published in the British Medical Journal demonstrates that employees that are part of a “integrated care” program return to work on average 4 months earlier than those receiving more conventional care. Studies like this seem to prove what I would consider to be obvious: strong rehab with progressive exercises leading up to job [...] Read More ›
OSHA Requesting More Enforcement Power
WASHINGTON — Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Dr. David Michaels testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Michaels shared the U.S. Department of Labor’s views on the Protecting America’s Workers Act (PAWA), particularly the issue of enhanced penalties. “Most employers want to [...] Read More ›
Is Worker Training Effective?
In the United States, the total cost of workplace training is over $100 billion per year. A recent study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in collaboration with the Institute for Work and Health (IWH), Ontario, Canada, analyzed the impact of training on reducing workplace risk. The conducted a review of some [...] Read More ›
The Rising Cost of Health Insurance
In The Cost of Failure to Enact Health Reform, the authors contend the implications of health insurance benefits without reform. They suggest the following problematic claims looking ahead to the next 10-years: The number of uninsured Americans will increase from 49.4 million in 2010 to 59.7 in 2015 and 67.6 million in 2020 Premiums would become increasingly [...] Read More ›
Don’t Forget to Spring Forward Saturday Evening!
This weekends marks the time when we set our clocks ahead an hour to correspond with Daylight Savings Time. At approximately 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 14th we will gain an additional hour of daylight for the spring/summer season to come. But did you know that the event has an increased risk of workplace injury the [...] Read More ›
We’re Getting Ready for NSC Texas Safety Conference!
The Texas National Safety Council (NSC) Safety Conference & Expo in Woodlands, Texas is just a few days away. InjuryFree will be presenting, Ergonomics: Recognizing and Reducing Risk,” on Tuesday (March 16th) from 8:30 – 9:30 AM. As we prepare for the Conference, we would like to express our appreciation to have this opportunity to [...] Read More ›
OSHA Notifies 15,000 Workplaces Nationwide of High Injury and Illness Rates
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration surveys employers to collect workplace injury and illness data it uses to identify employers whose injury and illness rates are considerably higher than the national average. A letter has been sent to about 15,000 workplaces with the highest numbers of injuries and illnesses [...] Read More ›
OSHA Form 300 Recordkeeping MSD Proposal Public Hearing
As we have been following in our blogs, OSHA is advising an additional column be added to the OSHA 300 log to track the quantity of musculoskeletal injuries from happening in facilities. OSHA will be hosting a public hearing on the Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting proposal on Tuesday, March 9th in the DOL/Frances [...] Read More ›
Wellness Program Benefits
In an article posted by Stephen Miller for SHRM, he reports new survey results report the benefits in implementing a workplace wellness program, especially within a small to medium-sized company. Not only do wellness programs increase employee retention, they also encourage productivity and reduce absenteeism. For both the employer and employee, wellness programs promote a [...] Read More ›
Michigan Ergonomics Debate to Resume
New ergonomic standards for the state of Michigan have resumed discussion, with public hearings to be scheduled within the next 90 days. The standards proposed by Michigan OSHA are a hot topic to Michigan employers with an exception of construction, agriculture, mining, domestic employment and jurisdictions administered by the Federal Railroad Administration. Within these standards, employees [...] Read More ›