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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Hey Siri, Where Are the Words, Workers Compensation?

The recently released annual Apple Supplier Report discusses production safety and health issues of Apple's global international suppliers. Admitting many problems including health and safety violations, including an explosion at Foxconn's Chengdu factor because of aluminum dust, the report lacks a mention of a workers' compensation program.

Click here to read: Apple Supplier Responsibility report 2012

"We were deeply saddened by events at two of our suppliers in 2011. An explosion at Foxconn’s Chengdu factory tragically took the lives of four employees and injured 18 others. An explosion at the Ri-Teng (a subsidiary of Pegatron) factory in Shanghai injured 59.Immediately after each of these incidents, Apple reached out to the foremost experts in process safety and assembled teams to investigate the circumstances of each explosion. These teams made recommendations about how to prevent future accidents. While the causes of these two incidents—as well as many of the corrective actions taken afterward—were different, both explosions involved combustible dust. Many materials, including ones normally considered noncombustible, can burn rapidly when small particles are suspended in air in the right concentration and ignited. In both of the 2011 incidents, aluminum particles provided fuel for a blast."
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

OSHA Urges An Injury & Illness Prevention Programs

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration has published a white paper urging that States implement injury and illness prevention programs. Citing statistics of the consequences of industrial accidents and injuries, as well as the benefits of the implementation of a program, OSHA recommends the implementation of a programs.


Click here to read the OSHA White Paper on Injury & Illness Prevention Programs


Conclusions
  • Despite the combined efforts of employers, workers, unions, safety professionals and regulators, more than 4,500 workers lose their lives and more than four million are seriously injured each year. Tens of thousands more die or are incapacitated because of occupational illnesses including many types of cancer and lung disease. The human toll from this loss is incalculable and the economic toll is enormous.
  • Many employers in the U.S. have been slow to adopt a workplace "safety culture" that emphasizes planning and carrying out work in the safest way possible.
  • Injury and illness prevention programs are based on proven managerial concepts that have been widely used in industry to bring about improvements in quality, environment and safety, and health performance. Effective injury and illness prevention programs emphasize top-level ownership of the program, participation by employees, and a "find and fix" approach to workplace hazards.
  • Injury and illness prevention programs need not be resource-intensive and can be adapted to meet the needs of any size organization.
OSHA believes that adoption of injury and illness prevention programs based on simple, sound, proven principles will help millions of U.S. businesses improve their compliance with existing laws and regulations, decrease the incidence of workplace injuries and illnesses, reduce costs (including significant reductions in workers' compensation premiums) and enhance their overall business operations.
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Workers Injury Rights Blog Launched

The Workers' Injury Rights blog has been launched by the Law Office of Deborah G. Kohl of Fall RIver, Massachusetts. Attorney Deborah G. Kohl has focused her professional energies on workers’ compensation and disability law through her nearly 30 years in practice. 

Attorney Kohl stated, "We started this blog because we are passionate about workers' compensation and workers' rights. It is a way to share some of what we've learned in our decades of legal experience with anyone concerned about workplace safety."

She is an active lecturer and author in the field, and has held several prestigious leadership positions, including serving as president of the Workers Injury and Law Advocacy Group. She is perennial listed in the publication Best Lawyers In America.

The lead article of the blog is entitled, "Workers' Compensation is all about Relationships," by Ryan Benharris. Mr. Benharrus stated, "Prevention of accidents should be the first step in establishing a successful workers’ compensation system."

Click here to visit: Workers' Injury Rights
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ADAO To Brief US Senate on Asbestos Jan 19, 2012


As part of ADOA's education, advocacy, and community efforts, The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization ADAO has announced that it plans to hold an educational Senate Briefing, “Asbestos: The Impact on Public Health, the Environment, and the Economy” and meet with government officials in Washington, DC this week. A group of ADAO representatives including Dr. Arthur Frank, Dr. Barry Castleman, Brent Kynoch, Marilyn Amento, and Linda Reinstein will present the most up-to-date facts to members and staffers in the Senate so that they can make informed legislative and policy decisions. Their hope is to offer critical asbestos information and encourage bipartisan interagency collaboration to address a threat that affects all Americans. As always, ADAO will leverage social media to share its experiences. Follow ADAO in Twitter @Linda_ADAO as their intern, Spencer, tweets straight from the Senate Briefing!

Summary and Briefing Facts to Be Released Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 4:00pm
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Insurance Group Changed With Fraudulently Syphoning Millions of Taxpayers Dollars

A New Hampshire insurance group has been charged by the State with improperly appropriating millions of dollars of taxpayers' funds to a workers' compensation insurance plan. The improper allocation is described in a petition filed by the State.

To read more click here:
Local Government Center denies it improperly used millions for workers' comp program
"The umbrella organization's activities have been under investigation for seeding a workers' compensation program through a surcharge that municipalities and their employees were paying through their involvement with the LGC's HealthTrust and Property-Liability programs.

"An investigation was conducted by the Secretary of State Bureau of Securities Regulation, which claimed the LGC misused the surcharge money and therefore owes the cities and towns which funded the seed money upward of $100 million.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)


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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement (pbs.com)

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