May 15, 2013 by Fred Hosier
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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Tags: custodians, EEOC, safety training in Spanish, understand English
May 10, 2013 by Fred Hosier
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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Tags: ASSE, Caterpillar Safety Services, near misses, near-miss reporting
March 15, 2013 by Fred Hosier
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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Tags: exclusive remedy, shoplifter, Workers' comp, wrongful death lawsuit
March 11, 2013 by Fred Hosier
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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Tags: barriers to learning, close call, ergonomics, workplace injuries
February 11, 2013 by Fred Hosier
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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Tags: exclusive rememdy, intentional harm, prison guard, taser, Workers' comp
February 5, 2013 by Fred Hosier
Do employees at your workplace know what to do if someone started shooting inside your building?
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Tags: active shooter, Department of Homeland Security, exit routes
January 24, 2013 by Fred Hosier
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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Tags: back reinjury, health insurance, whole-body vibration, workplace injuries
December 31, 2012 by Fred Hosier
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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Tags: injury rate, OSHA in 2013, workers' comp reform, workplace safety in 2013
December 27, 2012 by Fred Hosier
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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Tags: Falls, ladders, OSHA settlement, scaffold
December 13, 2012 by Fred Hosier
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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Tags: chemicals, chlorine leak, Tyson, worker couldn't read English
