Workplace safety procedures are designed to keep employees, visitors and customers safe while helping to reduce the stress associated with the work area. Company management should take the time to ...

Employers are responsible for injuries that occur in the workplace according to most state worker's compensation laws. What this means for an employee is that the employer must pay medical bills and ...

As states begin contemplating ways to ease shelter in place restrictions and how to facilitate employees returning to work, employers are faced with developing and implementing new policies and ...

On January 31, 2020, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II declared a public health emergency (PHE) for the United States to aid the nation’s healthcare community in responding to ...

The purpose of this policy and procedures is to outline the general process of the Human Resources Labor and Employee Relations Unit (“Labor and Employee Relations”) when conducting investigations.

In March 2020, as thousands of public sector workers shifted to remote work almost overnight, few would have guessed they would remain there for months. What followed was a real-world litmus test for ...

Workplace violence may take the form of various types of personal assaults. These may include weapons such as knives or handguns. The only warning you might receive during a workplace violence ...

This program establishes written procedures to prevent fires resulting from temporary operations involving an open flame or that produces heat, sparks, or hot slag. This includes (but is not limited ...

Effective work procedures have been at the source of many major failures through out history in the Oil and Gas Industry. I think the problem is two fold, one, if we have a effective procedure does ...

Diane Rohlman is associate dean for research, professor and endowed chair of rural safety and health at the University of Iowa. Think about your first job. Maybe it was delivering pizza, bagging ...