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Employers need to be aware of the risk posed by falls. Workers can suffer severe injuries, and falls often have fatal consequences. To help mitigate these risks in situations where there is no choice but for employees to work at heights, different types of fall...
Communication issues can directly lead to injuries in the workplace. They can cause oversights and mistakes that would not occur otherwise. Exactly how this happens is unique from one situation to the next. Let's consider a few ways that communication problems could...
When you become incapacitated because of conditions at work, you may expect your employer to help you access workers’ comp. But what happens when your supervisor questions whether your job caused your condition? A concern raised with human resources can leave you...
Hearing loss can happen in a number of ways in the workplace, and some reports indicate that it is one of the most common work-related illnesses. Often, hearing loss happens from being exposed to a high number of decibels for an extended period of time. The exposure...
Many workers feel pressure to rush while they are on the job. Production seems to be all that matters to their supervisor. They feel constant stress over trying to get more done in a shorter amount of time, and it never seems to end. One problem that this mindset can...
A workplace injury can leave you juggling medical appointments, missed work and questions about what happens next. Keeping your records organized can help you track what happened and respond if questions arise about your claim. Ohio law also sets deadlines for filing...
Some studies have found that healthcare workers have especially high risks of suffering back injuries and other musculoskeletal injuries. People often associate these injuries with manual labor jobs or operating heavy machinery, but those who work as doctors and...
When the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) approves a workers' comp claim, it does not simply approve a general injury. It approves a specific list of medical conditions tied to exact diagnoses. The law refers to those approved conditions as "allowed...
The Focus Four, which used to be known as the Fatal Four, are some of the major hazards that construction workers face. OSHA focuses on teaching workers how to identify these hazards and avoid them, seeking to cut back on fatal accidents or those leading to severe...
Falling from height on a construction site is one hazard that can maim or kill workers and is perhaps the most likely event to result in a fatality. Because scaffold builders and others work hundreds of feet off the ground, their lives are particularly at risk with...