What’s the OSHA Difference?: First Aid Incidents vs. Recordable Incidents
OSHA regulations require employers to prepare and maintain records of serious occupational injuries and illnesses. If you’re a covered employer, you should be familiar with the OSHA 300 Log in which those records must be kept. However, deciding which on-the-job incidents are recordable and which are not can be confusing – and getting it wrong […]
3 Ways Pre-Employment Abilities Testing Helps You Hire the Right Warehouse Associate
Hiring new employees is always risky, and the stakes are high for any business. The hiring process can be especially challenging for employers in physically demanding industries like warehousing, and the stakes for these employers can be much higher. Getting it right the first time means gaining a new worker who will be an asset […]
How to Reduce Shoulder Injury Workers’ Comp Claims
Employers who invest in workplace health and safety programs are seeing measurable results in the reductions in workers’ comp injuries, and as the numbers of employers making those investments has risen in recent years, nationwide rates of many common types of on-the-job injuries have fallen. However, according to an article published by Risk & Insurance Magazine, shoulder […]
Lower Your Mod Rate: 3 Tips to Prevent Strains, Sprains, and Exertion Injuries
Working to reduce your workers’ comp insurance mod rate – and therefore your premiums – means working to reduce your injury rate. Targeting injury types with the highest incidence rates is the most sensible place to start. Sprains, strains ,and exertion injuries rank high on that list, accounting for about one third of the top […]
