Uncategorized Culture Issues: Having a Good Culture is More than being OSHA & HR Compliant (Benchmarking Your Culture) 21 Jan 20201 Oct 2020 "If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it." - Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin). Sure, you can think you’re improving something, but unless you know what the problem was…
Uncategorized Culture Issues: Accountability When it Comes to Job Performance 16 Jan 202012 Jan 2020 Close your eyes and imagine you’re the manager of a professional baseball team, it’s Game 7, bottom of the ninth, two outs, your team is up 3-2 with the tying…
Uncategorized Things you should know 14 Jan 202018 Dec 2019 BLS report on injuries and illnesses Nonfatal occupational illnesses and injuries held steady in 2018 at 2.8 per 100 workers, marking the first time since 2009 that they did not…
Uncategorized Legal Corner 9 Jan 202018 Dec 2019 ADA Lawsuit alleging wrongful termination because perceived-as disabled reinstated In Paula E. Babb v. Maryville Anesthesiologists P.C., a nurse anesthesiologist contends that Tennessee-based Maryville Anesthesiologists P.C., fired her because it thought…
Uncategorized OSHA reiterates that online safety training may not meet requirements 2 Jan 202018 Dec 2019 In a standard interpretation issued earlier this year, OSHA answered the question: Are online training programs acceptable for compliance with OSHA's worker training requirements? Interestingly, this standard interpretation is very similar in…
Uncategorized Seven reasons to stay strategic in a Insurance Soft Market 31 Dec 201918 Dec 2019 Some businesses are experiencing an unpleasant shock when renewing their commercial insurance. Market conditions for many commercial lines are changing from a "soft" to a "hard" market, where premiums increase…
Uncategorized Things you should know 24 Dec 20195 Dec 2019 Soap more effective than hand sanitizers in combatting flu Researchers from the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine found that ethanol-based sanitizers can take up to four minutes to disinfect hands…
Uncategorized Legal Corner 19 Dec 20195 Dec 2019 ADA Adverse employment action cannot be motivated by associational disability claim The association provision of the ADA does not require employers to reasonably accommodate nondisabled employees so that they may…
Uncategorized OSHA watch 17 Dec 20195 Dec 2019 New video explains inspection process A new video explains the OSHA inspection process. New fact sheet on taxi driver safety A new fact sheet focuses on keeping taxi drivers safe. Input sought on safety…
Uncategorized Six reasons you can’t ignore mental health in workers’ comp 10 Dec 20195 Dec 2019 Compensability of mental injuries in workers' compensation is complex and varies widely by state. Some states allow compensability for physical-mental injuries, where a workplace injury leads to a mental condition,…
