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Does safety training for these custodians need to be in Spanish?


May 15, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Compliance, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views, OSHA news, Safety training

A group of Hispanic custodians in Colorado are claiming they are victims of discrimination because their employer isn’t providing various workplace documents — including those involving safety training — in Spanish.

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Getting employees to report more near-misses


May 10, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views, Safety training

It’s been estimated that for every lost time injury of more than three days, there are dozens of prior non-injury incidents. So why don’t workers report more near-misses so there are fewer serious injuries?

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Employee knocked over, killed in shoplifter chase: Is employer liable?


March 15, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, new court decision, Safety training, Special Report, Workers' comp

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A Wal-Mart loss prevention employee chased a shoplifter, and in the process, a co-worker was knocked over and killed. Is Wal-Mart liable for the employee’s death? How did employee training factor into this case?

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Overcoming 3 barriers to learning from workplace injuries


March 11, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Injuries, Research on safety, Safety training, Special Report

Imagine this workplace injury scenario: A worker is seriously hurt on the job by an electrical shock. Years later, under similar circumstances, a worker is killed from electrocution. Why didn’t the company learn from the first incident? A new research paper lays out three barriers to learning from previous workplace injuries and how companies can overcome them.

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Guard tased as part of training: Can he sue employer for intentional harm?


February 11, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Back/lifting injuries, Injuries, Safety training, Special Report, Workers' comp

State laws make workers’ comp the “exclusive remedy” for employees injured at work for good reason: It prevents them from filing more expensive lawsuits against employers. But there are exceptions, such as intentional harm. That’s what a prison guard argued when he was tased as part of training.

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Active shooter in the building! How will workers respond?


February 5, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: cell phones and safety, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Safety training, workplace violence

Do employees at your workplace know what to do if someone started shooting inside your building?

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What factors contribute to workplace back reinjury?


January 24, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Back/lifting injuries, cost of safety, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views, Safety training

Back injuries are the most expensive and most prevalent workplace injuries in the U.S. But up until now, no one has looked at what factors might contribute to back reinjury for employees who return to work.

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Top 5: What’s ahead for workplace safety in 2013


December 31, 2012 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Compliance, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, OSHA news, Safety training, Special Report

New regulations from OSHA; stepped up OSHA penalties; workers’ comp reform; and what to do with those increasing injury rates? Those will all be on the table for workplace safety in 2013.

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Contractor agrees to $100K fine in employee scaffold death


December 27, 2012 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Falls, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, OSHA news, Safety training, Who Got Fined and Why?

A construction contractor has reached an agreement with OSHA, settling citations in connection with the death of a worker who was erecting a scaffold.

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Cause of chlorine leak: Worker couldn’t read English according to feds


December 13, 2012 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Chemical safety, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views, OSHA news, Safety training

A federal agency says a chlorine leak inside a poultry processing facility that sent 195 employees to hospitals was caused in part because a worker couldn’t read English. In fact, English was the primary language of only 17% of workers there.

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