Sentences with phrase «lost work days»

Studies show that healthy employees cost less: They have lower healthcare costs, fewer lost work days and they're more likely to stick around if their employer has an excellent wellness program.

Back and neck pain can be debilitating, resulting in lost work days, decreased quality of life, and permanent disability.

«Implementing these policies and using this equipment will save millions of dollars and more thousands of lost work days for workers injured from unsafe patient handling practices,» Picknick said.

«Creating opportunities for staff to take part in physical activity at or after work» says Simon Lee, «will improve physical and mental wellbeing and play an effective role in maintaining stronger, healthier backs and necks which was recently reported as the number one cause of lost working days.»

Healthcare costs aside, obesity also creates lost productivity and missed economic growth because of things like lost work days, lower work productivity, mortality, and permanent disability.

Good health and safety management pays dividends, by preventing injuries and lost staff time by averting serious preventable injuries; work ‑ related illnesses such as stress and back pain; lost work days due to work - related illness and workplace injury; and the cost and disruption of damage only accidents.

Perhaps most significantly, poor air quality is a leading cause of asthma attacks, which leads to 10 million lost school days and 14 million lost work days annually, according to the CDC.

From medication and other healthcare costs to lost work days for parents

Climate mitigation through energy efficiency in the residential and commercial sectors will improve local and regional air quality, particularly in large cities, contributing to improved public health (e.g., increased life expectancy, reduced emergency room visits, reduced asthma attacks, fewer lost working days) and avoidance of structural damage to buildings and public works.

IBS accounts for 10 per cent of visits to GP surgeries and the condition has a significant and escalating burden on society as a consequence of lost work days and time spent on regular hospital appointments.

It's a problem that results in 1.2 million lost work days a year at about a $ 411 billion cost to the economy.

Some full - time employees stay home one day a week, using naptimes to catch up on email, and put in a few hours working from home on the weekend to make up for the lost work day.

Healthcare facilities that have implemented Safe Patient Handling programs, which reduce manual lifting, have seen patient and worker injuries plummet, and have saved more than their investment through reduced workers» compensation, lost work days and overtime costs.

This in turn reduces absenteeism and lost work days.

Being overweight raises the risk of diseases like heart attacks, strokes and cancer, and takes a financial toll in terms of healthcare costs and lost work days.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has studied the effects of coal - fired power plant emissions on premature mortality, nonfatal heart attacks, hospital and emergency room visits, acute bronchitis, upper and lower respiratory symptoms, aggravated asthma, and lost work days or school absences.

However, in the long run, Dr. Hyman believes you will save thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars by avoiding costly chronic diseases, expensive yet unnecessary surgeries, powerful pharmaceutical medications with dangerous and unknown side effects, lost work days, injuries and more.

Poor environmental conditions can thwart academic progress by making it harder for students to concentrate, causing or exacerbating illness in students and staff, increasing absences and lost work days, and diverting school funds to pay for costly repair and remediation projects.

Some full - time employees stay home one day a week, using naptimes to catch up on email, and put in a few hours working from home on the weekend to make up for the lost work day.

Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity.

In 2020, the study projects the Clean Air Act will prevent more than 230,000 cases of premature mortality, 200,000 heart attacks, 17 million lost work days and 2.4 million asthma attacks.

There is also a cost estimated to be in the billions of dollars for healthcare and lost working days.

Climate impacts cost time and money by damaging critical infrastructure, disrupting economic activity, escalating medical expenses, losing work days, and requiring adaptations such as moving people out of harm's way.

The NFSI also reports that slip and fall accidents are the primary cause of lost work days and the leading cause of worker's compensation claims.

When you total the costs for treatment, lost school days, lost work days, and early deaths, asthma ends up costing about $ 56 billion per year.

Implemented safety program resulting in over ten years without a lost work day.