Each year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos writes a letter to shareholders identifying the areas that the company will be focused on in the coming 12 months. This year, Bezos’ last as CEO, his letter included a focus on employee satisfaction and safety. One of the things that Bezos believes needs to be addressed is employees who suffer from musculoskeletal disorders.
It may come as no surprise to you that if you stay up late at night you wake up tired and groggy in the morning. You may also think that splashing some water on your face and sipping your first cup of coffee may wipe away that tired feeling and get you ready for a successful day at work. You may feel this way, but a new study suggests that those that stay up late and consider themselves “night owls” actually perform worse at work.
The past year has presented stresses on all of us, but none more than healthcare workers who have been on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19. Doctors, nurses, EMTs, and all other healthcare professionals have seen some of the ugliness that this virus has had up close and personal. It has been a harrowing time for them.
The importance of safety learning for workers in the construction industry cannot be understated. Lessons in proper usage of equipment and protocols surrounding safety gear have literally saved lives over the years. This is why it was so critical to the industry that it was agile enough to move much of its safety learning online in 2020.
While it is not your job to be in the workplace and mitigate dangers that could lead to workplace injuries, you can provide a valuable resource to your employers by providing them with this list of the most cited Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) violations of the last year.
When helping injured workers in Connecticut workers’ compensation cases, there are two terms that are often used synonymously but have very different legal distinctions. Impairment refers to a loss or abnormality in the structure of an organ or part of the body. Disability refers to the functional limitations of the impairment as it relates to performing activities at work or outside of work.
If you are in the construction industry, you know that once the weather turns it is full blown spring construction season. Whether it be road construction or building construction, workers in this industry have inherent risks to complete the tasks of their job.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) classifies workplace injuries into a variety of categories to help determine just how prevalent they are throughout the United States. One of these categories is so common that it sees nearly 300,000 injuries each year. These common injuries are categorized as “overexertion and bodily reaction”
The short answer to this question is, it depends. The longer answer is, currently under an executive order issued by Governor Lamont, workers who contracted COVID-19 between March 10, 2020 to May 20, 2020, you would be eligible to file a claim for contracting the virus. While employers still have the right to contest the claim, the executive order allowed workers to file the claim given the difficulty of proving where the disease was contracted.
It is that time of year again when the weather is warmer and the road construction begins. On a daily commute it is not uncommon to see four or five different road construction projects underway at any one given time. This can be a welcome sight to taxpayers who are excitedly awaiting potholes being filled and roads being paved, but it can be a sign of dangers ahead for the workers who are filling those potholes and paving those roads.
