Sentences with phrase «more employee injuries»

According to statistics, traffic accidents result in more employee injuries and deaths than any other job risks.

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Cal / OSHA defines a serious injury or illness as one in which an employee is hospitalized for more than 24 hours or when a part of the body is lost or permanently disfigured.

«Cal / OSHA's regulations define a serious injury or illness as one that requires employee hospitalization for more than 24 hours for other than medical observation, or in which a part of the body is lost or permanent disfigurement occurs.»

Get an assessment: hire a professional to come out and assess the surfaces more likely to cause injury to employees.

She cites studies that indicate how an employee's marital problems can lead to more absences, tardiness, on - the - job injuries and loss of productivity; «a 1996 study indicated that as marital distress increased, work - loss days increased at a rate of 1.34 work loss days.»

Kearns also recently asked Governor Andrew Cuomo to look more closely at the center, following a violent incident that resulted in three employee injuries.

Governor Cuomo adds insult to injury by leaking this information on the same day he proposed a Tier VI for the pension system that would mean the lowest paid employees in public employment would have to pay more, work longer and receive less benefit.

Stress - related illnesses and injuries are estimated to cost the United States more than $ 300 billion per year from accidents, absenteeism, employee turnover, lowered productivity and direct medical, legal and insurance costs, according to the report.

This is why suicide has surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of injury death, why a full third of employees suffer chronic debilitating stress, and why more than half of all «millennials» (18 to 33 year olds) experience a level of stress that keeps them awake at night with insomnia.

Across the UK as a whole in 2008/09 more than 10,000 employees suffered a major injury as a result of a slip or trip at work, while more than 4,000 employees suffered a major injury as a result of a fall from height.

Slips, trips and falls at work are a serious issue, HSE reported that they account for over a third of employee injuries, and make up more than half of all reported major / specified injuries.

This is a crucial type of insurance for employees, but even more so for self employed individuals because any savings you may have put away over the years may not be sufficient to cover the financial burdens from injuries, illness and their expenses beyond paid sick leaves.

While workers» compensation is supposed to protect employees with work - related injuries and illnesses, the insurance system makes this process more complicated than it needs to be.

With the rare experience of helping entertainment companies plan and orchestrate concerts and festivals across the U.S. and around the globe, John built the model for a practice group that caters to live music festivals and similar events, with a «soup to nuts» suite of legal services spanning complicated personal injury litigation, construction, bid protests, breach of contract, Dram Shop laws, employment, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and more.

In addition to helping hold employers responsible for sloppy employee management, hiring, training, and retention, New Mexico personal injury claims against an employer often allow the injury victim to recover substantially more than claims limited to the employee.

Any full - time employee (working for an employer with four or more employees) who has an employment related injury and needs medical attention should be covered under workers» compensation insurance.

For example, many employees who work in construction or who drive trucks for a living place themselves at risk of personal injury every single day and perhaps more so than someone who is employed in an office environment.

The Manitoba government is raising the bar by introducing groundbreaking proposed changes to the Employment Standards Code that would give victims of domestic violence the right to time off work without fear of job loss, give employees a new leave for long - term illness and injury, and extend the length of leave for compassionate care... [more]

If an accident or injury was attributed specifically to one employee's negligence (consider if a store employee failed to put a mop away and a customer tripped and fell over it), that person may be implicated as a responsible party, but more often, the wrongdoer is still considered the business entity that owns the property.

Employers should not knowingly put their employees at risk of personal injury or death, and when an employee is injured on the job they are often entitled to more than just the reimbursement of medical expenses.

For more information about recovering damages for injuries resulting from defective machinery, call Maine Employee Rights Group today at 1 207.874.0905.

Employees in the occupations listed below are more likely to develop a repetitive stress injury:

However, it can be more difficult for an employee to prove the repetitive motion injury arose out of and in the course of employment and that the employer was timely notified.

For more information about recovering damages for injuries resulting from an employer's failure to maintain proper guards or provide safety gear, call Maine Employee Rights Group today at 1 207.874.0905.

For employees suffering from a repetitive stress injury, this notice requirement becomes more complex.

All Claims are brought by, or on behalf of, former Iraqi employees of the Defendants in Iraq, and all those contracted via third parties to offer services to the Defendants in Iraq between 2003 and 2009 and seek damages from one or more of the Defendants alleged injuries and / or financial losses caused by the alleged failure of one or more of the Defendants to adequately protect them or their Deceased relatives from risk of threats and / or injury from those opposed to the Defendants» presence in Iraq.

Then, in Veakins v Kier Islington Ltd [2010] IRLR 132, [2009] All ER (D) 34 (Dec) Waller LJ considered the interaction of this cause of action with claims for personal injury caused by stress at work, observing that: «Since Hatton v Sutherland, it has become more difficult for an employee to succeed in the negligence action based on stress at work.

The Virginia Worker's Compensation Act requires any employer with two or more employees to carry the insurance, which covers work injuries and occupational diseases.

With the more event - based, traumatic injuries such as amputations and crush injuries, the cause is often related to poor employee training, lack of safety gear, and failure to implement proper lockout / tagout procedures, which protect against unexpected start ups while workers are performing maintenance on a machine.

An employee driving a truck is probably much more likely to experience an injury than someone in a manufacturing plant.

An employee at a manufacturing plant is much more likely to experience an injury than someone in a retail store.

... there are more than 35,000 back and other injuries among nursing employees every year, severe enough that they have to miss work.

Workers» compensation insurance provides benefits to employees for work - related injuries or illnesses including medical care, wages from lost work time, and more.

An employee at a construction site is much more prone to experiencing an injury than someone behind a clothing store counter.

She cites studies that indicate how an employee's marital problems can lead to more absences, tardiness, on - the - job injuries and loss of productivity; «a 1996 study indicated that as marital distress increased, work - loss days increased at a rate of 1.34 work loss days.»

Findings suggested that women in full - time positions reported more injuries than men, and that as employees» level of experience