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Workplace Injury: Distractions in the Workplace May Lead to Injuries, Lost Time, and Lost Productivity
How many times has it happened? You’re intently concentrating on a task at work but then a co-worker stops to ask a question or just say hi. Your attention is drawn away from what you were working on to respond to your co-worker, and then it takes a minute or two to...
New OSHA Guidance May Signal Changes in Citations and Penalties
At the end of January, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued new enforcement guidance to its regional administrators and field staff that will enable them to apply a rarely used penalty in a broader sense. OSHA announced this change in a...
Workplace Fatalities: Bureau of Labor Statistics Releases Grim Statistics for 2021
As the nation gradually began to recover from the pandemic and more workers returned to the workplace, another number – a grim number – also grew. In 2021, the most recent year that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has compiled and analyzed data, 5,190 workers died...
Being in Compliance Makes Ethical and Good Business Sense
Most companies have someone on staff to oversee compliance, that is, someone whose job it is to know most of the government-made rules and regulations that have been established for a certain industry and can ensure the company is following those rules and...