In recent years, private businesses have had about 1,000,000 reported incidents per year where workers have lost time to injury or illness. That doesn’t include government workers, and it doesn’t include cases where a worker ended up using general sick or leave time. Whether reported or not, these accidents have one thing in common: they […]

Is your workplace too loud?  Do you often have to shout or speak loudly to make yourself heard? Do you sometimes feel slightly deaf or having a ringing in your ears after leaving work? If so, you may be at risk of developing occupational hearing loss. Hearing damage is one of the most common workplace […]

During this long cold winter, most of us have the luxury of hunkering down inside an office or another warm building, but many New York workers have jobs that require them to work outdoors – even in freezing temperatures. Working outdoors in these frigid conditions can give rise to serious workplace injuries and illness. In […]

In a move the has generated substantial controversy, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed changes to its workplace reporting rules that would require employers with more than 250 employees to publicly disclose reported injuries and illness. Currently, employers are only obliged to post yearly summaries of illness and injuries in a prominent […]