Safety a Focus for Oklahoma Wind Turbine Maintenance Workers October 16, 2017 By RYAN MILLER, Enid News & Eagle For Kalon Moore and Jackson Rollins, it’s a sight they never tire of. Just about every day on the job,...
California Commuter Transit Agency Fined $220,000 in Workers’ Deaths October 9, 2017 By PAUL ELIAS A Northern California judge fined the Bay Area Rapid Transit agency $220,000 on Friday for the deaths of two workers...
Fall Protection New to OSHA’s ‘Top 10’ List of Most Cited Violations October 4, 2017 The preliminary list of OSHA’s Top 10 violations for Fiscal Year 2017 remained largely unchanged from FY 2016, except for...
NCCI Looks to Future Issues Related to Medical Marijuana September 28, 2017 The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) released a final article in a series examining stakeholder concerns over medical and...
Fall Deaths at Separate Construction Sites Spark Call for Safety September 25, 2017 Two construction workers, one of them a father of five children, fell to their deaths at separate building sites on...
Opioid Crisis Spills Into Workplaces September 21, 2017 By Catarina Saraiva, Patricia Laya and Jeanna Smialek At Philip Tulkoff’s food-processing plant in Baltimore, machines grind tough horseradish roots into puree. “If you put your arm in...
NCCI Examines Employee, Legislator and Regulator Concerns About Marijuana September 20, 2017 Two more articles released by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) examine the many questions employees, legislators and regulators...
4 Ways Machine Learning Can Help Workers’ Comp Claims Teams September 19, 2017 By Dr. Laura B. Gardner, Chief Scientist, CLARA analytics You may have heard some buzz about machine learning (ML), but what exactly is it? And, more importantly, how does...
Insurer Says It Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Medical Marijuana in Maine Case September 18, 2017 The Maine supreme court on Wednesday began considering whether a paper millworker left suicidal by narcotic painkillers should receive workers’...
OSHA Fines Related to Nevada Workplace Deaths Reduced 50% of the Time September 14, 2017 Companies that contested Nevada workplace safety citations after an employee died on the job received reduced fines about half the...