You've heard the old adage about people not learning from history being doomed to repeat it? This is certainly applicable to the safety programs of businesses. If accidents are to be avoided, the business must learn how and why they happen in the fir...
OSHA's "Interim Enforcement Procedures" Prioritize Its Responses to Reported Accidents, Calling for Inspections in Some Cases and Submission of the Employer's Own Accident Investigation Report in Others
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The first few moments following an auto accident can be an extremely confusing, emotional, and frightening time. As such, it can be difficult to know what accidents need to be reported and what your insurance might require.
There are some types of ...
Webster, defines “accident” as “an undesirable or unfortunate happening that occurs unintentionally and results in injury, damage, or loss.”
Accidents cost the construction industry hundreds of lives, thousands of injuries, and hundreds of millions ...
In the recent case of In Re: the Compensation of Mary S. Sandberg, an Oregon court overruled the Workers Comp Board and held that a JC Penney decorator, who was allowed to work from home, was covered by her Workers Comp policy when she tripped over h...