Challenges of Drug Testing Employees for Prescription Drugs Revealed in NY...
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR News Editor The story of a woman who lost her job after working more than two decades at an automotive plant because of a failed drug test in which she tested positive for a...
View ArticleUS Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports More than 4,500 Fatal Work Injuries...
According to recently released preliminary results of the National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) program conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), a total of 4,547 fatal...
View ArticleHealth Care Facilities Workplace Violence Prevention Act Introduced in...
To promote a “culture of safety” in health care facilities and help protect health care workers from incidents of workplace violence in the state of Pennsylvania, the ‘Health Care Facilities Workplace...
View ArticleWorkplace Violence Research Shows Increase in Homicides Committed by Work...
A new report “Violence in the Workplace” by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc. (NCCI) shows that while work-related homicides and injuries due to workplace assaults remain well below...
View ArticleRevised 2010 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Shows One Out of Ten...
According to the revised numbers reflecting updates to the 2010 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the final count of fatal work...
View Article2011 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Preliminary Data Reveals Most...
According to the preliminary results of the 2011 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) program conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of fatal work injuries in the United...
View ArticleWorkplace Violence Observed or Experienced by One in Eight Federal Workers...
According to a report from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ‘Employee Perceptions of Federal Workplace Violence,’ approximately 13 percent of Federal employees – about one in eight –...
View ArticleWorkplace Violence Accounts for Nearly One in Every Five Fatal Work Injuries...
Preliminary statistics from the 2011 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) program conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reveal that nearly one in every...
View ArticleWorkplace Violence Rate Against Government Employees Three Times Greater than...
The average annual rate of workplace violence perpetrated against local, county, state, and federal government employees in 2011 was three times greater than that of private sector workers, according...
View ArticleWorkers Memorial Day Observed on April 28
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Workers Memorial Day is observed every year on April 28 and honors workers who have died on the job or who experienced hazardous exposures at work. The...
View ArticleOSHA Releases Update to Preventing Workplace Violence Guidelines
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released an update to its Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and...
View ArticleOn-Air Shooting of Journalists a Tragic Case of Workplace Violence
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The tragic shooting deaths of two journalists during a live on-air broadcast who worked for WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia by a former colleague who was fired...
View ArticleTop Ten Deadliest Jobs in America Revealed
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn What are the top ten deadliest civilian jobs in America with the highest fatal work injury rates? A preliminary total of 4,679 fatal work injuries were...
View ArticleWorkplace Violence Deaths by Co-Workers on the Rise
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Although the number of deaths related to workplace violence by co-workers remains relatively small, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data shows this...
View ArticleSafe Hiring Expert Attorney Lester Rosen to Co-Present Session on Background...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester S. Rosen, Founder and CEO of Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will co-present a session on workplace security and background checks...
View ArticleWorkplace Safety Index Finds One Billion Dollars Spent Each Week on Injuries...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The 2017 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index produced by the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety has found more than $1 billion is spent each...
View ArticleOSHA Designates Inaugural Safe and Sound Week to Raise Awareness of Workplace...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has designated June 12 to 18, 2017, as the inaugural “Safe + Sound...
View ArticleSurvey Reveals Nearly One in Five American Workers Face Hostile or...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A “disturbingly high” number of American workers – nearly one in five – face a hostile or threatening social environment at work, according to the latest...
View ArticleHospital Faces Over $200,000 in OSHA Penalties for Workers Exposed to...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A behavioral health facility in Massachusetts faces $207,690 in proposed penalties from the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and...
View ArticleEmployers Must Learn How to Handle Employees with Extreme or Unpopular...
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017 that left one person dead, several people injured, and some participants fired from their...
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