...Understanding Work related Injuries Vanessa Cleggs HCR/230 11/17/2013 Myrnell Martin Understanding Work related Injuries In the United States workers who become injured while at work was not able to receive any compensation for their loss of wages or help with medical bills. For a worker to receive any kind of assistance or reimbursement the worker would have to peruse legal action against their employer which could take many years they would also have to prove that the employer was negligent which could also prove too hard to do. By the year 1947 all states had to have workers compensation insurance. Workers compensation is a benefit that is designed to protect injured workers and their employers in case a worker is injured while on the job. The way that it protects the employer is because this insurance is paid into by the employer to pay coverage’s for medical bills and also loss wages this means these payments are not paid directly by the company which helps to protect the company. Protection that is provided through workers compensation for an employee is it will cover any medical cost that the employee may have due to the injury and also while the employee is off working it will provide loss wages payments to the employee. OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has set laws and regulations in place to make sure that companies under its jurisdiction provide and safe and healthy place for customers and employees. Companies that are governed under the...
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...Understanding Work Related Injuries Workers compensation was developed in the early 1900’s to provide employees who have been injured on the job with compensation for their injuries, and it protects employers from liability for employee’s injuries. The benefit of workers compensation really goes both ways, it not only provides a protection for the employer from lawsuits, but also provides the employee a sort of financial safety net so if they are injured on the job and cannot work they will have a means for supporting their family. If you do find yourself in this situation it helps to know who is responsible for what. If certain steps are not followed you can bet that your claim will be denied. In regards to HIPAA Privacy Rule, workers’ compensation claim information is not subject to the same confidentiality rules as with other medical records. The HIPAA privacy rule permits disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI) for workers compensation purposes without the patient’s authorization. There is also no restriction on disclosure of any judicial or administrative proceedings in response to a court order, subpoena, or similar process. The information that is provided is what is necessary to file the claim. Individuals may not request a physician to restrict a disclosure of PHI for workers compensation purposes, however, the physician is restricted from disclosure of information about any previous conditions that are not directly related to the claim without...
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...DOI: 8/13/2013. The patient is a 34-year old male field technician who sustained a work-related injury to his right hand and shoulder from falling off a ladder. Per PT note dated 04/08/15, the patient has attended 12 sessions and would need 12 additional sessions for the right shoulder. Electrodiagnostic studies of the right upper extremity performed on 12/19/13 showed increased insertional activity in the right triceps muscles which can be seen in conjunction with denervation and a possible right C7 radiculopthy is suggested. Clinical correlation is recommended. There are no evidence of median nerve entrapment at the wrist, ulnar neuropathy and brachial plexopathy. Based on progress report dated 06/15/15, the patient returns for further evaluation of his right upper extremity condition. He is now approximately 3-1/2 months status post revision surgery over the right shoulder. He continues to note improvement with continued home exercise program and progressive range of motion and function. He continues with therapy....
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...DOI: 12/13/2012. Patient is a 57-year-old male route sales representative who sustained a work-related injury to his neck and right knee from picking up baskets. Per OMNI, he is diagnosed with cervical degenerative disc disease and right knee meniscus tear. He is status post right knee arthroscopic repair surgery on 04/08/13. Per Orthropedic panel QME report dated 05/13/15, it was noted that the patient started having aches and pains in both of his right shoulder and left knee on 01/01/13 a couple of weeks when he stopped working. He received a cortisone injection to the right shoulder which did not work. Since that time, his right shoulder pain worsened. He has difficulty keeping static positions with his right arm. He is unable to reach behind his back. He has left knee pain inside the kneecap. On examination of the right shoulder, there is impingement syndrome with some limitation of range of motion. Bothe knees show degenerative joint disease with crepitus and medial joint line tenderness. There is some edema in the distal lower extremities....
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...Kristen Cuce Professor Price Discussion 2 July 13, 2016 I chose to discuss and answer questions to the poem “Hazel Tells LaVerne” by Katharyn Howd Machan. 1. Who is the speaker? Is it possible to determine the speaker’s age, sex, sensibilities, level of awareness, and values? The speaker is Hazel. She is a woman who seems to be of lower class and a bit uneducated due to the way some of the words are spelled. 5. Does reading this poem out loud help you understand it? Reading this particular poem out loud did help me understand it a bit more. By reading it aloud I was able to pronounce certain words such as “hitsm” and “sohelpmegod”. It also gave me the idea that she may have been speaking with an accent with the way some words are spelled. 7. What does the title emphasize? I think the title emphasizes that this is a story from one person to another person, or in this case a frog. After reading the poem I can also tell from the title that by giving the frog a name they are making it to be as if he is a person. 14. What is the tone of the poem? Is the tone consistent? I believe the tone of the poem is playful. It is a woman talking to a frog in a bathroom about becoming a princess. However, I think that the tone changes when the frog asks her to kiss him. She becomes serious and screams “ya little green pervert” and continues to flush him down the toilet. 20. Did you enjoy reading the poem? What, specifically, pleased or displeased you about what was expressed...
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...and Safety Executive Health and Safety Executive Annual Statistics Report 2011/12 The Health and Safety Executive Statistics 2011/12 KEY FACTS WORK-RELATED ILL HEALTH WORKPLACE INJURY ENFORCEMENT OTHER TOPICS www.hse.gov.uk SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS Ill health 1.1 million people who worked during the last year were suffering from an illness (long-standing as well as new cases) they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work. 0.5 million of these were new conditions which started during the year. A further 0.7 million former workers (who last worked over 12 months ago) were suffering from an illness which was caused or made worse by their past work. 2347 people died from mesothelioma in 2010 and thousands more from other occupational cancers and diseases such as COPD. Injuries 173 workers were killed at work, a rate of 0.6 fatalities per 100 000 workers. 111 164 other injuries to employees were reported under RIDDOR, a rate of 445.4 per 100 000 employees. 212 000 injuries leading to over-3-day absence occurred, according to the Labour Force Survey, a rate of 750 per 100 000 workers. 1 Key facts Working days lost 27 million days were lost overall (17 days per case). 22.7 million due to work-related ill health and 4.3 million due to workplace injury. Economic costs to Britain Workplace injuries and ill health (excluding cancer) cost society an estimated £13.4 billion in 2010/11. Enforcement 551 cases were prosecuted by HSE in England and Wales...
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...research, articles, and your text to complete your paper. Identify two injury or illness on-the-job issues related to your chosen company. Evaluate, through research, the issues and the possible effects of those issues regarding the following: Workers Production Management Format Discuss the financial implications of the chosen organization. Include a discussion on employee and employer responsibility. Identify two occupational safety assessment techniques that may help you evaluate the occupational-related illness. Create an occupational safety and illness prevention strategy for the identification of on-the-job illnesses and safety. You may use components of existing plans from your research; however, your plan must be customized and specific to your selected business. Provide any supplemental materials and guidelines that might be used as part of the plan. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Health and Safety Practices Plan Part Three HRM/554 University of Phoenix April 15, 2012 Dr. Brian Frank Health and Safety Practices Plan Part Three There are more than 21 million workers in the auto manufacturing industry, and the perception of this industry is a high risk of occupation injury and illnesses. However, Together, with members of the manufacturing industry and the National Safety Council (NSC), OSHA works to provide employers and airline industry workers with information and...
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...among employees can lead to a tense and less productive work environment. Differences in race, gender, religious conviction, sexual orientation, and age can cause fear and uneasiness among employees. These feelings are often associated with confusion or powerlessness. Diversity and sensitivity training can assist employees in embracing each other’s unique qualities. “To accept differences, we have to understand differences, and there is no better way to do this than to learn to communicate with people who are different than you” (Lieberman, 2007). When employees feel overwhelmed, they can lose self-confidence, become irritable or act withdrawn. This behavior directly impacts productivity, and work becomes less rewarding. J. Segal, R. Segal, Horwitz, Jaffe-Gi[ http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Managing-Stress-In-The-Workplace/54320 In this article, work-related problems among a sample of nurses in the Philippines are described. Cross-sectional data were collected through a self-administered survey during the Philippine Nurses Association 2007 convention by De Castro, A.B, et al. during the Philippine Nurses Association 2007 convention. Measures included four categories: work-related demographics, occupational injury/illness, reporting behavior, and safety concerns. Approximately 40% of nurses had experienced at least one injury or illness in the past year, and 80% had experienced back pain. Most who had an injury did not report it. The top ranking concerns were stress...
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...Concept of Compensation The literal meaning of compensation is to counter-balance. In the case of human resource management, Compensation is referred to as money and other benefits received by an employee for providing services to his employer. Money and benefit received may be in different forms-base compensation in money form and various benefits, which may be associate with employee, service to the employer receive or benefits, he enjoy lieu of such payment. Cascio has defined compensation as follows: “Compensation includes direct cash payment, indirect payment in the form of employee benefits and incentives to motivate employee to strive higher level of productivity”. Based on above description of compensation, we may identify its various components as follows: 1. Wage and salary. 2. Incentives. 3. Fringe Benefits. 4. Perquisites. COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT: Compensation management, also known as wage and salary administration, remuneration management, or reward management, is concerned with designing and implementing total compensation package. The traditional concept of wage and salary administration emphasized on only determination of wage and salary administration structure in organizational settings. However, over the passage of time, many more forms of compensation, as discussed earlier, entered the business field which necessitate to take wage and salary administration in comprehensive way with suitable change in its nomenclature . Bench has defined...
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...Injuries and Safety in the Workplace Gail Coates BUS642 Research Methods & Tools Kelly Bruning July 4, 2015 Introduction If safety procedure programs are not implemented in organizations’ rules and policy, the amount of workplace injuries will continue to rise. As a prospective manager and business owner, workplace safety is important to research so I can ensure that my business is productive as well as having productive employees. Knowing what the main causes of work related injuries and the responsibility as management and having the proper plan and procedure to follow will help decrease those injuries and help my business become more productive. The well being of an organizations employers and employees are contingent on the organizations workplace health and safety procedures. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), “each year about 2.3 million people die from accidents and diseases that are related to their work” (Yarlagadda, Raju,, & Raju, 2010). The article also states that each day approximately 1 million employees suffer workplace accidents, and about 5,500 of those employees will die because of an accident or disease related to their work (Yarlagadda, Raju,, & Raju, 2010). Management Dilemma There are several different dilemmas that management deals with when it come to workplace injuries and safety. Management has to know what to do to prevent workplace injuries and how to deal with those injuries when they happen. Another...
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...an organization to increase profitability each year. This is attributed by the work force which is put under intense stress for the organization to grow economically. It ranges from unreasonably high productivity standards and hazardous working environment that make worker to become vulnerable to risk to t heir mental and physical health. The ultimate outcome is unhealthy workforce that is relatively less productive than the relaxed and contented workforce. The business entrepreneurs and the workers alike are faced with the problem of continuous work related stress and thus the policies and decisions are hence regulated by the law. To this end, the common law duty of care is a provision that was designed to hold employers liable for psychiatric related illness that employees suffer and more specifically illness arising because employees are made to work under stressful conditions. This paper is aimed to critically evaluate the common law duty of care and its effectiveness with respect to psychiatric related illness as a result of working under stressful condition. The establishment of the common law of duty towards workers has enhanced employers to provide good working conditions to lower psychiatric related illness due to workers stress. The claims in the psychiatric injury bin the work place context have not been restricted to involvement of the plaintiff being injured or witnessed the death injury of another. These claims include to circumstances such as less traumatic but still...
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...first step in reducing workers’ compensation costs involves ensuring that your company has effective safety and accident prevention programs in place to reduce the amount and severity of workplace illnesses and injuries. In addition to those programs, there are policies and procedures that should be implemented to help supervisors and Human Resources professionals in handling workers’ compensation claims in the most expedient manner possible. Having an active safety program has a number of benefits. Some are obvious. Others are not. A safety program gives employees a sense that their employer cares about them. Issuing personal protective equipment should be part of the safety program as should periodic inspection and replacement of worn or damaged safety equipment. Rotating work schedules or job duties can reduce repetitive-stress injury problems. An additional benefit is that doing so keeps workers more interested in their work and more focused on the job they are doing which also tends to reduce injuries. A mandatory safety training program also lets your employees know that any work related injury is bad for them and bad for the company. All employees should participate in safety activities including those workers in administrative positions or performing office work. Ideally, the message employers want to deliver is that everyone has a vested interest in minimizing these costs. When employees realize that workers' compensation costs tie directly to what their employer can...
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...well as promoting effective interaction among people, technology and the environment in which both must operate. In a more practical sense, ergonomics is the science of human comfort. When aspects of work or the workplace challenge or stress the human body beyond its capabilities, the result is often a musculoskeletal injury (MSI). O/E (overexertion injury) RSIs (repetitive stress or repetitive strain injuries) ASTDs (activity-related soft tissue disorders) CTDs (cumulative trauma disorders) Whatever name is used, these injuries belong to a group of sprain and strain injuries that can affect muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments, joints, cartilage, blood vessels, or spinal discs in the body. To help avoid MSIs, work demands should not exceed the physical capabilities of the worker. A proactive initiative will be described in the following case study is how to implement an ergonomics program into a workplace of 20 employees. Human Resources Department’s support beside management in executing the ergonomics program will increase workers productivity and proficiency. In this case study there are five steps that will be used to develop and implement the program called ‘The Leadership Activities For Managing Control Model’ also known as ISMEC model. 1. Identification of the work. 2. Standard Established. 3. Measuring performance 4. Evaluating performance 5. Commending and Correcting. I-Identification of the working One of the most important aspects of ergonomics program is...
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...them to determine if the team will be a good one or not. A basketball coach has many jobs that they do while coaching the team. They have to make drills, order uniforms, make sure everyone has rides to and from games, make sure that the team works well together, and make sure the team has enough players. The coach also has to make sure that they plays are executed right and that every team member knows what position they play and how to play that position properly. The coach is constantly doing everything they can for the team, the coach devotes their life to the team that is being coached. There are three main topics of focus for this paper, they are; sports related injuries, how to properly motivate the team and better them as a team and individuals, and bullying in the sport. First, there are a lot of sports related injuries that occur when playing basketball. The most common is an ankle injury, it can be injured in the muscles, the tendons, or the joints. “Muscle strength and balance around the lower limb joints may play an important role for performance and injury prevention in basketball” (Gerodimos 1). When coaching a basketball team, the coach must look after his players to make sure that they do not get a sports related injury that could easily be avoided with proper training. When coaches plan out the exercises that they are going to do with their team, they often add exercises that add torque around the muscle joints to make sure that they are getting worked properly...
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