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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Finding employment can be a daunting task for veterans returning to the civilian workforce, but The Employment Guide's Veterans Transition Guide is helping to ease the change. As soldiers and sailors return from deployments around the world, they routinely face problems integrating back into civilian jobs and lives....
PITTSBURGH, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Have you ever wondered why a starfish can completely grow a new arm, but humans cannot? Or, how about the fact that a salamander can regenerate a severed leg, but human beings have to rely on man-made, prosthetic limbs? ...
Numerous studies demonstrated the life saving capabilities of ESC - In addition to ESC Continental is taking crash avoidance to the next level with a portfolio of products FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany and AUBURN HILLS, Mich., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The international automotive supplier...
Bob Wassom was at the top of his career when the advertising company he worked for merged with another. Five years later, his contract was not renewed. That was in 2006. Wassom's buyout kept him going about a year. Now the freelance writer,...
Company Seeks to Resume Clinical Trials of GL1001, a Repositioned Compound GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Ore Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:ORXE) announced today that it has filed an investigational new drug IND application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA for GL1001, the first clinical-stage inhibitor of...
Kim Moody US Labor In Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below Verso, 2007, 296pp. ISBN: 978-1-84467-154-0 pbk £20 In this, his third book on the state of the labour movement and trade unions, Kim Moody returns to the prospects...
2008 Buyers Study Uses Industry Data, Shows Need for Strong Benefits Education CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Decisions, decisions. First it was whether to participate in an HMO or a PPO. Then it was picking investments for a 401k. Now, working Americans are becoming the decision-makers for...
RESTON, Va. -- HCA Virginia and Children's National Medical Center of Washington, DC, today announced plans to collaborate on designing, equipping, and preparing Broadlands Regional Medical Center BRMC to provide high-quality services for pediatric patients. Under the terms of a letter of intent, Children's National...
Low morale among the nation's airport screeners may be compromising security and pushing screeners to quit their jobs, a controversial government report said Tuesday. The 29-page report by Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard Skinner is the latest to chronicle personnel problems among the nation's 48,000...
Risk adviser solves fleet operation challenges during declining economy with rocketing fuel costs CHICAGO, June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Corporation, the leading global risk and insurance firm, and SmartDrive, a global leader in driver safety and risk management solutions, have teamed up to provide...
US and UK employees are costingbusinesses $37 billion (£18.7 billion)(2) every year because they do notfully understand their jobs, according to a new IDC white papercommissioned by Cognisco, the world's leading intelligent employeeassessment specialist. '$37 billion: Counting the Cost of Employee Misunderstanding' reveals forthe first time the scale...
And when did you last see your children? Before you both left at the crack for the office? When they were already in bed? Or do you only see them -- let's be brutally realistic here, given our divorce rate -- at alternate weekends? ...
Dear Editor: Being both an aging boomer, and intimately involved with a workforce of equally aging boomers, I would like to add a few pieces of information that Peter Rousmaniere did not mention (in "Aging Matters," Risk & Insurance[R], March 2008, Page 16). ...
Recession resistant? Our industry says yes The cover photographs our editors selected for the backdrop of the Barks Publications booth at the EASA Show in Dallas this month illustrate two ways in which facilities in our industry are thriving in an economic downturn. One, the Wood Group...
In December of last year, I proposed six safety goals for perioperative nurses to use as a framework for professional development in 2008. This year's columns have thus far addressed the following goals: * Be a leader in patient safety, regardless of your role. ...
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