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As you travel along on the road, you may assume everyone driving a truck around you is fully paying attention to other people. However, accidents due to distractions are a serious problem for truckers because of a few unique factors. Less time to react According to...
If your job requires you to perform the same motions over and over again, you could be at risk for a repetitive stress injury. Also known by names such as overuse syndrome, repetitive motion injuries and cumulative trauma disorder, repetitive stress injuries have been...
Workers' compensation is a vital part of protecting employees on the job. It allows for injured workers to get help covering their expenses for medicine, rehabilitation and surgery. It even provides compensation for impaired workers, offers to retrain, or provides for...
Some work environments expose you to high, potentially dangerous levels of noise, and if you make your living as a Connecticut law enforcement officer, your risk of experiencing work-related hearing loss is high. Noise-induced hearing loss is far more common among law...
Commercial truck drivers spend thousands of hours behind the wheel every year. During over-the-road trips, truckers may develop repetitive stress or other driving-related injuries. Regrettably, truck drivers are also vulnerable to traumatic injuries when picking up...
A busy shopping season increases the risk of injury for retail store workers. As reported by CBS News, close to 4% of retail employees working full time in 2018 sustained non-fatal injuries or illnesses. Approximately 7% of employees selling pet supplies recorded...
Suffering an injury on the job can make you worry about how you will pay for your medical bills. If you carry out the proper steps to secure workers’ compensation, you should feel at ease that your employer’s insurer will cover your injuries. You might help your case...
After hurting yourself on the job recently, you filed a workers' compensation claim. Your employer honored your claim, but do you get fair compensation? Chron explains how to value a workers' comp claim. Make sure your employer accounts for all aspects of your claim...
When you think of workers' compensation, you might first imagine injured workers after an accident staying home, recovering and their employer's compensation funds helping them pay for it. In the worst of accidents, that worker may not go home at all. Workers'...
Earning a living as a nurse in Connecticut comes with certain health risks. Some of those risks result from your direct interactions with ill patients. Others are the result of you having to shift those heavy patients or move them in and out of bed. Per HealthLeaders...
