I found the TCIR, what's next? The number you get as your incident rate is the number of work-related injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time employees over one full year. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the TCIR for private industry employers in 2017 was a rate of 2.8...
Patients were told what would be done and why before staff transferred them. Questions were answered at the patient’s level of understanding. David was always in demand! A major point to remember is that the better healthcare workers care for their bodies and protect themselves from diseases ...
Determining What Is Work-Related When an employee suffers an injury or illness, the employer must determine if it is work-related. If it is, OSHA treats it as an OSHA recordable event that must be recorded. Not all employee injuries merit recording: A retail employee who gets injured after ...
The severity rate is meant to show the extent of safety problems by exposing how critical each injury and illness is. The premise is that an employee who must miss time from work to heal and recover has a more severe problem than one who can immediately return to work. Completing and post...
It is designed to give you an in-depth look at many of the current occupational safety and health compliance topics. It will allow you to get a full understanding of what each of the OSHA required programs entail — we go beyond compliance topics and address safety business, culture, ...
Your practice could be the target of an OSHA inspection – all because one employee (just one!) makes a complaint. It doesn’t matter what the complaint is about – grumbling about unsafe behavior, concern about a lack of safety policies – whatever the case, the whole situation can been ...
a result of microtrauma brought about by repetitive activity over time or can be the product of a single traumatic event. Because of the slow and progressive onset of this internal injury, the condition is often ignored until the symptoms become acute, often resulting in disabling injury. Acute...
now is the perfect time to take a close look at what we learned from and about OSHA during the last few very eventful years, and more importantly, look ahead and assess what we can expect from OSHA the next four years, as President Trump installs his own team at the Department of Labo...