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Motor Vehicle Accidents 
Most Chicago employers are required to maintain workers’ compensation insurance to compensate employees who are injured on the job or suffer work-related illnesses. Employers who knowingly fail to maintain this insurance can receive a minimum fine of $10,000 and $500 per day without insurance.
In the Chicago area, it is estimated that more than 400 fatalities per year can be attributed to deteriorating road conditions, poor roadway designs, and inadequate traffic control systems. Due to the lack of state funding, many major roads in Illinois are in bad condition and are continuing to deteriorate.
Estamos a mitad del término inicial de Presidente Donald Trump y ya estamos viendo cómo sus pólizas están afectando los derechos de los inmigrantes. Más de 700,000 inmigrantes están esperando solicitudes de naturalización para convertirse a ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos.
Having an emergency spill response plan is a crucial part of any company’s safety and health program. Employers should have an action plan, have appropriate sorbents available and personal protective equipment for workers involved in cleanups.
Frail, elderly residents in nursing homes, long-term care facilities, and assisted living homes are getting evicted at alarming rates because facilities state they can no longer provide care.
Safety leaders face a variety of challenges when trying to maintain workplace safety, increase compliance, and reduce accident rates. Keeping up with changing OSHA regulations, breaking through safety plateaus, providing appropriate PPE, minimizing the impact of workers’ compensation claims, and creating a culture of safety are a few of the most common challenges encountered.
In Illinois, approximately 6,000 nursing home residents are hospitalized with sepsis infections each year, and one in five of those residents do not survive. Sepsis infections have become an epidemic in nursing homes, costing Medicare millions of dollars each year.
Medicare defines “ultrahigh” therapy as more than 12 hours of rehab or therapy per week and “very high” therapy as 9 hours per week. The University of Rochester recently published a study showing that from October, 2012 through April, 2016, the number of nursing home residents receiving “ultrahigh” therapy increased by 65 percent.
Workers refuse to wear PPE because of lack of training, lack of availability, its appearance or because it is uncomfortable to wear. Even when mandated by OSHA, there are high levels of non-compliance with personal protective equipment (PPE) in workplaces.
Under dram shop laws in Illinois, third parties can sue establishments that sell and serve liquor for damages caused by drunk driving accidents, if the driver was served alcohol at that establishment.