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$59,000 should be enough to buy you some fancy wheels, like that Jaguar or Audi sedan your CFO rides around in. But did you know that $59,000 also represents the average cost of a lost-time injury in
The next time somebody scoffs at you for pushing a wellness program, you might want to retort by pulling out the following statistics:
$2,656: Hiring a smoker rather than a non-smoker costs
1: Employees who take four 10-minute smoke breaks per day effectively work one less month per year than employees who don
Fact or Fiction? Even though CSA standards are voluntary, an employer can be held liable for failing to implement them.
Fact: To find out how a voluntary standard can carry the force of law, see
Fact or Fiction? Because bears, cougars and other wild animals are creatures of nature, employers are under no legal obligation to protect workers from animal attack.
Fiction: Owners do have a duty to safeguard workers from animal attack. To find out why and what they should do, see the feature article in this month’s issue
