As a conscientious employee, the safety of your workers is your top priority. You do your best to keep up with health and safety laws and protect your team from injuries. Unfortunately, a worker has come forward and claimed that they were injured on the job. It seems...
As an employer, you take every possible precaution to ensure that your workers are safe. In fact, this is your number one priority. Sadly, despite your best efforts, accidents can happen. That’s why you’re prepared in terms of insurance and first aid procedures. Most...
Carrying workers' compensation insurance helps protect a small or medium-sized business from the potentially devastating expenses of a worker's injury. However, large claims against the policy your business carries could increase your operating expenses. Whether you...
As an employer, you have an obligation to provide certain forms of support and protection for your workers. Their employment status determines which obligations your company has. Workers' compensation coverage helps ensure that your employees won't lose their home or...
You know work injuries happen, and you expect your employees to file a workers’ compensation claim when they get hurt on the job. However, some employees act like a workers’ comp claim is the equivalent to some kind of special immunity: They seem to think that you...
The majority of individuals head to work each day to provide for their families. They expect to arrive safely and return in the same condition. Unfortunately, there are over 1 million workplace accidents every year in the USA, with some resulting in severe injuries....
As a business owner, one thing you should know if you need (or not) is workers’ compensation. If you intend to hire employees, it’s often necessary to carry workers’ compensation unless you’re going to self-insure. Workers’ compensation is costly, but you need to have...
It is almost impossible to reduce the injury risk in your workplace to zero. You can and should implement optimum safety procedures and thorough training and provide your staff with high-quality safety equipment. Yet, despite this, it is almost inevitable that people...
As a business owner, you've had a lot of your employees switch to working from home over the last two years. Maybe some of them are planning to never return to the office. You don't mind having them work from wherever they are happiest and most productive, but you are...
How you classify a worker matters. As many companies have found out, classification errors often come to light when a worker gets injured on the job. When they do, it can result in considerable legal problems for the company and worries for the injured worker who is...
