No good (safety) deed goes unpunished: A Florida company fired a lifeguard for leaving his zone to help rescue a nearby swimmer. Now the company is having second thoughts about terminating its employee.
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Tags: drowning, Hallandale Beach, Jeff Ellis Management, lifeguard fired
You open your web browser to your favorite general news site and see a headline about a “freak accident.” What are the chances that story will include injury prevention advice?
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Tags: freak accident, Hopkins Center for Injury Research, injury prevention
With all the political rhetoric out there regarding government regulations, you’d think it’d be No. 1 on small business owners’ list of problems right now. But it’s not.
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Tags: cost of health coverage, government reuglations, Small Business Majority, small businesses
OSHA administrator David Michaels has said that a new regulation to require companies to develop their own injury and illness prevention programs (I2P2) is a top priority for the agency. Now, a new OSHA white paper makes the case for the program. See what you think:
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Tags: injury and illness prevention programs, OSHA white paper, Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program, Voluntary Protection Program, workers' comp premiums
The title of the press release says, “OSHA encourages major retailers to provide crowd management measures.” A better word instead of “encourages” would have been “warns.”
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Tags: Black Friday, crowd control, OSHA warning, retailers, Wal-Mart trampling death
It’s not a category you’ll find in OSHA statistics on workplace deaths. However, a new study shows a possible link between your co-workers and mortality.
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Tags: co-workers killing you, support in the workplace, Tel Aviv University
An investigation by iWatchNews.org shows a number of employee deaths at “model workplaces” within OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) haven’t been recorded in the agency’s database that monitors the program. And the facilities remain in VPP today.
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Tags: David Michaels, deaths recorded, i2p2, iWatch News, National Safety Council, OSHA funding, user fees, VPP
On his way to work, an employee parks his car and walks to the facility entrance. He slips, falls, and seriously injures his knee on an icy/snowy sidewalk. The incident didn’t occur on the company’s property. Despite that, the company is still on the hook for workers’ comp. Why?
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Tags: icy sidewalk, slip and fall, Workers' comp
While some lawmakers in Washington are harping on OSHA for creating too many regulations, a recent report says during the last ten years, there have been fewer new regulations produced by the agency than in any other period in its history.
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Tags: diacetyl, OSHA Inaction, Public Citizen, silica, small business, too many new regulations
A worker at a grocery store fell 11 feet onto a concrete floor and suffered broken bones and head trauma. Instead of calling 911, store management lifted the worker into a wheelchair and pushed him to a dock to wait for a relative to take him to the hospital.
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Tags: broken bones, emergency services, employee fall, General Duty Clause, head trauma, Market Basket, repeat citation
