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Mental and behavioral health issues are causing more women to get hurt on the job. As many as 60 percents of workplace injuries to women are connected to depression, anxiety, and fatigue. For employers and employees alike, understanding this risk is critical to keeping the workplace safe.
The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act requires employers to provide medical care to cure the effects of a workplace injury. Sometimes, those effects may not be apparent in the emergency room, or in the weeks to come.
Could an insurance company purchase your data from Facebook? Could an insurance company buy a map of every location that you’ve visited from Google?
America’s drug problem continues to invade the workforce and millions of people work alongside drug abusers every day, raising their risk for workplace injuries. Approximately 77 percent of Americans over the age of 18 who use illegal drugs are currently employed in at least a part-time capacity.
In Illinois, temporary transitional employment provisions enable injured employees to return to work at off-site locations through third-party vendors when they have been released with restrictions.
In Illinois, employers are required to assess their workplaces for hazards and provide their employees with the proper personal protective equipment to help to protect them from injuries. Employers are supposed to train their employees about the PPE, when it may be required, and how to use it. Employers may offer incentive programs to encourage their workers to use the equipment.
On March 19, 2018, a 49-year-old woman was killed in Arizona after being struck by an autonomous vehicle. The car was in a fully autonomous mode meaning all integral components were being operated automatically. However, there was a person in the driver’s seat.
Lack of proper skills and training for staff and caretakers in nursing home facilities puts residents at a higher risk for abuse and neglect. When staff members are not adequately trained about the facility’s procedures and policies, how to manage specific medical conditions, how to reduce the risk for falls and other hazards, or how to respond in an emergency, residents can be injured or killed because of the facility’s negligence.
Over the last 50 years, America has had the smallest decline in child death rates among wealthy countries, despite good health care and higher spending on children’s health needs.
Thousands of workers were killed on the job in 2016, and while statistics, graphs and numerical reports all demonstrate the severity of work-related safety issues, these deaths were not just numbers. The workers had names.