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9 Types of Insurance You Need to Protect Your Contractor Business

Construction Marketing

Between the potential for accidents and injuries on the job site and the risk of lawsuits, it’s important to have insurance to protect yourself from financial losses, but what kind of insurance do you need? This type of coverage will protect your company from various liabilities , including injury claims, and cover medical expenses.

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PREVENTING REPETITIVE STRESS INJURIES

Safety Services Company

Repetitive strain injuries (RSI) are those which affect nerves, joints, tendons, tendon sheathes, and muscles. Estimates suggest that repetitive motion injuries cost United States businesses over $20 billion just in workers’ compensation alone. Lift heavy objects slowly and smoothly, as jerky movements can cause muscle injuries.

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WILG president talks workplace injuries

Safety Services Company

WILG president talks workplace injuries. Boyd, president of the Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group. What is the Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group? The Workers’ Injury Law and Advocacy Group (www.wilg.org) has grown into an important, national voice for workers.

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Key’s to Preventing Repetitive Motion Injury

Safety Services Company

Estimates suggest that repetitive motion injuries cost United States businesses over $20 billion just in workers’ compensation alone. Factor in the costs of employee replacement, productivity loss, and other related expenses, and we’re talking upwards of another $100 billion. Follow proper lifting techniques.

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Amputations in Manufacturing – A New OSHA National Emphasis Program

FDR Safety

OSHA Area Offices may add, based on local evidence, manufacturing establishments (regardless of the NAICS codes) to the master list where amputation injuries or fatalities related to machinery and equipment have occurred in the five years preceding the effective date of this Instruction.

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October 2014 newsletter

FDR Safety

On-the-job accidents that result in worker deaths typically make news headlines, but for all the attention that news coverage brings to workplace safety issues, it misses an important point: more than 96 percent of fatal injuries occur outside the workplace. The indirect costs are nearly identical to those associated with on-the-job injuries.

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Difference Between Tort and Contract | What Is Tort |  What Is Contract | What Is Contract Law | What Is Tort Law

CivilJungle

It will embrace intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, money losses, injuries, invasion of privacy, and so on. A contract includes many different things to concern, it may be exchanges of product, money, service, etc. The first intent of misconduct is to supply full compensation for tried harms. Negligence.