worker compensation Articles
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How to Save $1.2 Million in Workers’ Compensation Dollars
Pace Industries is North America’s largest full-service aluminum, zinc, and magnesium die casting company. Founded in 1970, Pace operates 12 divisions with 21 facilities and over 4,200 associates across the U.S. and Mexico. Today, their safety performance is a source of pride and a competitive advantage within their industry. But Pace Industries has learned a lot along the way. Pace ...
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Workers` Compensation – The Small Picture: what`s your claims nightmare?
This is the second in a three-part blog series on the relationship between workplace culture and the costs associated with occupational injury and illness. If you have been involved in workers’ compensation claims with your organization, I am pretty sure you have at least one horror story. Unfortunately it isn’t the just the horror story that needs attention. A couple of years ago I ...
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Workers Compensation – The Small Picture: Attitude, behaviour and culture more dangerous than unsafe conditions
This is the third in a three-part blog series on the relationship between workplace culture and the costs associated with occupational injury and illness. We’ve talked about the relationship between the employer-employee…well, relationship and we’ve talked about impacts on claims, costs and workers compensation. In the story I shared last week, we learned how some of the more ...
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Workers Compensation – The Small Picture: Does workplace culture impact health and safety costs?
This is the first in a three-part blog series on the relationship between workplace culture and the costs associated with occupational injury and illness. When I started to write this series of posts on workers compensation, I thought what new information I could provide readers – information that isn’t easily accessible on innumerable website, blogs and other publications. I wanted ...
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OSHA Proposes Stricter Crystalline Silica Dust Rule
On September 12, 2013, OSHA published a proposal to revise a 40 year old rule that the agency says will save about 700 lives and prevent 1,600 new cases of silicosis each year. While the rule likely won’t be finalized for several years, employer liability will be impacted by the more rigorous proposed rule even before it is finalized. To an industrial hygienist and occupational safety ...
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Workplace injuries and the bottom line: indirect incident costs are staggering
This week the Intelex Blog introduces its newest contributor, Robert Smith. Head of Injury Management Solutions, Robert has tons of experience in Human Resource and Disability management, including a long stint with WSIB. Robert will blog on a biweekly basis on issues related to compensation, claims management, case management, and much more. This week Robert tackles the real costs of workplace ...
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The high cost of health, environment, and worker impacts of the Oakland port trucking system
As the fifth largest container port in the United States, the Port of Oakland is an important hub for the movement of consumer goods in and out of the region, California, and the country. The regional economic benefits of the Port include trade and logistics transactions, business taxes and revenues, and job creation. However, the economic benefits of the Port are not shared equally among ...
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Safety’s Bottom Line: Using ROI to Gain Executive Support
At the heart of safety management is the desire to create a safer workplace, where employees’ well-being is valued and protected. What is often understated is the influence that safety has beyond ensuring everyone goes home at the end of the day. The bottom line, both literally and figuratively, is that an effective safety management program saves manufacturing organizations like PACE ...
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Focusing on the driver to improve safety
It is an established, yet startling, fact that the most life-threatening job in this country is a truck driver. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), individuals involved in trucking suffered more fatalities than those in any other occupation. These fatalities account for 12 percent of all worker deaths. Truck drivers also received more non-fatal injuries than any ...
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Automated tarping systems and what they mean to you
When it comes to considering effective equipment for your fleet, look at outfitting your trucks with a tarping system. Tarping systems range from fully hydraulic and adjustable to fit a wide range of container sizes down to an adjustable gantry with a “window shade” style tarp return where the driver pulls the tarp out over the load. Why are they important? Three factors come to mind: ...
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Stanley Steemer Leverages Riskonnect to Accelerate Growth
Challenge Stanley Steemer was offered the opportunity to significantly expand its service portfolio and add a new revenue stream – but that meant the company first had to significantly upgrade the way it managed its third-party suppliers. Stanley Steemer, best known for carpet cleaning, is a family-owned company with 63 branches and 220 franchise locations. At the time, it had a very ...
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Safety Pays with a Zero-Accident Culture
Construction companies typically view sales, quality and profitability by cultural imperatives – but what about safety? Almost all accidents at construction sites can be prevented with zero-accident culture. Some large construction companies operate for millions of manhours without a lost-time accident. Small and medium-sized contractors also can achieve unblemished records through ...
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Lifting safely
The human body is capable of withstanding many types of forces, jolts, falls, and even electrocution, to a certain extent. However, preventing such incidents is far safer and more effective — not to mention more pleasant — than surviving them. Among the most common and preventable injuries that require some kind of medical attention are various back-pain complaints associated with improper ...
By GillTeq, LLC
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OSHA Gets Smart: Finally Provides Annotated Permissible Exposure Limits
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established to protect people from health and safety hazards found at work. One of OSHA’s most basic resources is its list of PELs: Permissible Exposure Limits that are intended to protect worker health from exposure to toxic materials. PELs are enforceable regulatory limits on the concentration of ...
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5 ways to retain field workers and reduce employee turnover
Field Service businesses may be hesitant to increase expenses to retain employees, but the cost to hire new workers outweighs the cost to retain them. Poor employee retention can be expensive in other ways, too - it can negatively affect staff morale, decreasing your team's willingness to work, affecting productivity and, therefore, your bottom line. Reducing employee turnover is cost-effective ...
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Insurance issues: audits are nothing to fear
The word “audit” tends to invoke notions of painstaking information gathering, countless wasted hours sitting with pencil pushers who have no sense of humor and other such images. The truth of the matter is, if you and your agent have taken the time to accurately project your past year’s performance, the audit should be relatively pain free. Each year your company goes through ...
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The `Anatomy` of an Asbestos Lawsuit
Clients and potential clients are often curious about 'what happens' in an asbestos lawsuit. This is a difficult question to answer because every case we handle is unique, and one of the things that makes The Firm distinctive is that we handle every case on an individual basis. Nevertheless, asbestos litigation in California has some common features, and this article attempts to describe the ...
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`A pack in your pocket and a cigarette in your mouth`
Not only did he smoke, but he was required to smoke - on the job. Jim McEvoy told this to Firm principal, Victoria Edises, twenty years ago, long before the secret documents of the tobacco industry had been made public. Back then, when asbestos plaintiffs' attorneys were emboldened to sue tobacco companies, they were overwhelmed with motions, interrogatories and depositions, awash in a ...
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Air Sampling/Testing of Workers Exposed to Chemicals
As of 2018 and hopefully into 2019, industrial work in the United States certainly seems to be expanding. The concern is: Is the effort to control the air that a worker breathes, keeping pace with the industrial expansion? Experience says that it likely will lag behind putting workers—often new hires at risk for work related illnesses. In short, the potential for worker exposure to ...
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Checklist for Loading Dock Safety & Fall Protection
Loading docks are busy places. And that’s a good thing—that means projects are moving and your business is strong. But the busier you are, the more apt you are to overlook safety. This can be particularly true during specific seasons, like the holiday rush. Even the most insignificant things can cause an accident and slow down production. Since more than one-quarter of all industrial ...
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