Four factors lower disability rates

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The four primary factors affecting workplace disability are: the amount of employee involvement; the use of conflict resolution and grievance techniques; the management of work force stabilization and continuity; and the use of disability management. Organizations can lower their workplace disability rates by implementing well-designed policies in these areas. Organizations encouraging employee participation have fewer chronically ill workers. Social support structures, such as conflict resolution policies, are a key element in maintaining employees' health. Employers that learn to manage such disruptive occurrences as mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, and reorganizations will positively affect the health of their employees. Organizations that practice disability management, which includes employee assistance and health promotion programs, can control health care costs mores effectively than other firms.

Health aspects, Disability, Disabilities

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The toxic trap

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Employees who work with toxic chemicals may face reproductive health threats, but many employers are unable to respond effectively because of their fear of exposure to significant criminal or corporate liability. Currently, risk assessment findings are limited, but economic reality and ethics dictate that employers must protect the health of employees. Manufacturing firms will be facing forecasted shortages of skilled workers in the 1990s, a trend that will cause many companies to begin focusing on employee issues, such as health, to maintain the numbers of their work force. Firms interested in developing reproductive health protection programs need to make sure the programs contain three important elements: employee training; monitoring and identification of health hazards; and documentation of attempts to control known or suspected hazards.

Management, Risk assessment, Laws, regulations and rules, Occupational health services, Business ethics, Fetal protection (Employment policy)

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A social and technical response to injury and illness losses

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In 1984, 1.9 million U.S. employees experienced disabling workplace accidents, and in 1985, the cost of such accidents was estimated to be $33 billion nationally. Occupational safety is not merely a management or engineering problem. Studies have shown that the incidence of work-related injuries decreases significantly when employees have control over the pace and output of their work. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Safety College estimate that 75 to 85 percent of work-related accidents are caused by workers' inability to cope with stress and loss of self-esteem. Moreover, the cause of 88 percent of industrial accidents is unsafe actions (human error). The solution for improving industrial safety is not more legislation, but enhanced working conditions that motivate employees to work more safely.

Safety and security measures, Prevention, Accidents, Employee safety education, Safety education

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