When business people hear the word ergonomics, they immediately think of dollar signs, as in what it will cost to outfit employee workstations with new setups to prevent sometimes crippling injuries. Painless simple adjustments to a computing environment, such as getting a better chair or raising a monitor, may cost...
Most office injuries are the result of repetitive actions - typing, using the mouse, 10-key data entry, and so on. By making just a few minor adjustments in office equipment, you can thwart injuries and sick days. The adjustments will cost money. But it's better to spend a few hundred...
You may be at risk of repetitive strain injury. Pilates instructor Eleanor Gomez explains how some simple steps can lead to healthier sitting and workplace comfort.
So you have suffered the pain and nuisance of a work-related injury, and now it looks like you're also about to lose your job! You may be asking yourself, can my employer really get away with this? A number of recent cases have looked at whether an employee can legally...
By modifying this form/template it can be used to disclose to the company any pre-existing injury or disease that you have suffered of which you are aware, and which you could reasonably foresee could be affected by the nature of the proposed employment as per the position description.
Tripping and slipping can involve both embarrassment and serious injury. The ubiquitous banana peel slip always gets a chuckle, but too often the gravity both the law and seriousness of the situation can cause real and lasting injury. In most of the world, the policy of Always Look Down ALD...
While research to date has consistently demonstrated that SocioEconomic Status SES is inversely associated with injury mortality in both children and adults, findings have been less consistent for non-fatal injuries. The literature addressing SES and injury morbidity among adolescents has been particularly inconclusive. To explore potential explanations for these discrepant...
The difference between ergonomics and Bionomics is that the focus is not on the physical environment ergonomics per se, but on the proper management of the body. Bionomics was conceived as an answer to the ubiquitous sprain/strain type injuries. It is said that 80% of the population will experience a...
Experimental and clinical studies have shown a reduction in intrapulmonary shunt with spontaneous breathing during Airway Pressure Release Ventilation APRV in acute lung injury. This reduction was related to reduced atelectasis and increased aeration. This paper hypothesizes that spontaneous breathing will result in better ventilation and aeration of dependent lung...
Head injuries are a common occurrence, with continuing care in the years following injury being provided by primary care teams and a variety of specialty services. The literature on outcome currently reflects areas considered important by health-care professionals, though these may differ in some respects from the views of head...
Workers compensation costs have been a growing problem for years. Back injuries, carpal tunnel and other very prevalent and expensive injuries cost corporate America over a billion dollars per week. Companies have gone out of business; laid off employees; moved out of costly states such as California; curtailed growth; and...
Working in agriculture has long been recognised as a hazardous occupation, with one of the highest fatal injury rates to workers of any industry. It is the only industry that has to accept the constant presence of children around the worksite, since farms are homes as well as workplaces. That...
Head injury in England is common. Evidence suggests that socio-economic factors may cause variation in incidence, and this variation may affect planning for services to meet the needs of those who have sustained a head injury. Planning head injury related services at the local level thus needs to be based...
A one-year pilot study was conducted, linking the efforts of a workers' compensation Managed Care Organization MCO with an occupational health clinic and emergency department to manage work-related injuries and associated work disability. Sustained (> 90 day), injury-specific return-to-work RTW outcomes, modified by job title, were compared to loosely- and...
Workers compensation costs have been a growing problem for years. Back injuries, carpal tunnel and other very prevalent and costly injuries cost corporate America over a billion dollars per week. How many companies have to go out of business; lay employees off; move out of state; curtail growth; see valuable...
Even something as mundane as driving to work puts you at risk. Annually, about 11,000 Americans experience a spinal cord injury, mostly caused by a car accident, violence, sporting activity, or fall. Victims often face a devastating loss of leg movement that hinders everyday functions like walking. Many also lose...
Caps on damages have emerged as the most controversial legislative response to the new malpractice crisis. The paper analyzes a sample of high-end jury verdicts in California that were subjected to the state?s $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages. It finds strong evidence that the cap?s fiscal impact was distributed inequitably...
This paper depicts about study by Hartford Financial Services according to which, dragging heels on reporting a workplace injury to the insurer is likely to result in increased claim costs. Claims filed a month or more after the injury cost an average of 48 percent more to settle than those...
From the executive summary: ‘The safety triangle, commonly known as the safety pyramid or accident pyramid, came under attack from safety professionals. It was developed in 1931. Widely accepted for over 70 years, the safety triangle served to illustrate the theory of accident causation: unsafe acts lead to minor injuries...
In March, the illinois supreme court issued its long awaited decision in one of the case, in which the court interpreted the term “catastrophic injury” as been used in public safety employees benefit act. This article mainly discusses a case w.r.t. health insurance. The supreme court interpreted the term "catastrophic...
