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The Injured Nurse: An Ongoing Dilemma in the New Millennium
Written and submitted - global skilled care nursing industry 2010
Human injury losses suffered from occupational hazards are inherent in the nursing care field, and of growing concern among healthcare professionals. In fact, nursing has the second highest incidence of all kinds of non-fatal work-related injuries in the U.S. Yet, outside of the healthcare domain itself, lack of public awareness and appreciation for the scope of this problem is inadequately addressed. This is evidenced by the ever-mounting statistical data pouring out of an industry entirely reliant upon the human element of patient care.
Historically, skilled care workers have been at greatest risk of injury loss while performing their duties with the required focus and efficiency expected. The healthcare industry notoriously suffers the most work related injuries due to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), accounting for 19% of those reported across all high-risk to injury workforces. 41% of all injuries in the healthcare industry alone are due to MSDs, with nearly 1.4 million skilled care nursing employees most adversely affected. (Bureau of Labor Statistics/bls.gov). Read more...
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Human Capital Loss Injury
In the best and worst of economic times, cities across the Unites States function with basic infrastructural needs. The workforces behind these needs include Firefighters, EMT’s, Paramedics, Law Enforcement officers, Public Works & Utilities employees. These critically valuable human resources contribute to the functional organization and safety of our communities, and are woven into the very fabric of American society.
However, the labor intensive nature and often changing, uncontrolled performance demand of these work arenas is not well understood. Often not fully appreciated is the high risk of musculoskeletal injury, high likelihood of cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) , translating to major human capital injury losses ‘bleeding’ from the system daily. Read more...
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Back Breaking. It Doesn't Have to be...
Make a trip to any type of store and you will find goods that have traveled great distances, not only from the other side of the country, but also from all corners of the world. Without a doubt, the success of our economy is to a great extent a result from our ability to move goods over great distances. Indeed, we have built a great infrastructure to support the movement of goods such as an extensive highway system and a network of railroads that span the whole continent , all connecting a network of distribution points and warehouses located closely to the major consumer markets.
But behind those shiny aisles of consumer goods at our favorite retailers lies a world fraught with danger and injuries for warehouse and loading dock workers. Chemical spills, forklift accidents, slips and falls on wet surfaces are some common hazards listed by many workers, but the one peril that the workers always mention is back pain. Read More...
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Imprinting Work Behavior Safety for High Risk Employees
The essence of the article described a unique process of imprinted body mechanics; work behavior safety training for high-risk work sectors such as Fire and Police in order to prevent the re-occurring incidence of disability injury and related retirements. High risk is here defined as a work arena where the employee's primary work focus and performance demand must prevail, often at the expense of injury loss and chronic dysfunction leading to disability ratings and related retirements. Read more...
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Safety Programs and Issues at the DOE Power Administrations
Imprinting Safety Training - A Method of Reducing Back Injury Costs
Back injuries continue to be a leading cause of work related mishaps! This is an obvious fact, proven by numerous safety surveys and analyses. Back injury problems are prevalent in DOE, just as they are in general industry. Therefore, the question remains, what is a realistic solution? One answer may be employee training. You may ask: "What's so new about employee training?" Read more...
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Imprinting Work Behavior Safety for High Risk Employees
Job-specific professional development out performs awareness in reducing worker's compensation loss in high-risk or labor-intensive arenas.
Injury and disability viewpoints have differed widely in the United States over the last decade. The issues of cumulative disability to the lumbar spine (low back) and wrists (carpal nerve tunnel inflammation) outdistance most others as the primary loss control issue of the labor-intensive work environment. These work environments include public safety, nursing, utilities, industry, construction, warehousing, currency banking - any work arena that cannot be readily re-engineered to significantly lessen the degree of effort. Read more ...
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Worker's Comp Loss Control Specialty Agencies Find New Opportunities
California lawmakers have churned out more legislation to reform the state's troubled $9 billion workers' compensation system. "These developments have further strengthened the need for a specialty niche to reduce workers' comp costs that often an insurance company, with seemingly sophisticated loss control functions, is unable to supply. These statements, from loss control executive Jack S. Kanner who is CEO and Dir of operations for the PSR® Corporation. Read more...
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Back Safety and Critical Body Response
In the emergency services and other physical occupations, back related injury is of natural course a primary source of employee disability loss and retirement.
With the looming loss control issues of the public sector being health-related preventative safety mechanisms-particularly for the high risk/loss work arenas of public safety- it has become apparent that long-term preventative systems to reduce and control back-related employee losses and resulting retirements are a critical issue. Read more...
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Preventing Disability Losses in Public Safety Agencies
The extraordinary losses due back and stability related injuries and other controllable body responses in California public safety agencies - particularly police and fire - has prompted the Tactical Body Response Safety - Critical Body Response. Read more ...
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Preventing Disability Losses
The extraordinary disability losses due to back and stability related injuries in California Public Safety Agencies, specifically Fire and Police, has prompted the need to establish safety training relating to the conditions in the emergency response working arena. In fire / emergency medical response the conditions are constantly changing with reoccurring awkward, often extreme physical demands placed on the public safety employee. Nevertheless, the fire / emergency medical response employee must respond quickly and often reflexively in critical circumstances where the interests of public safety and indeed time/survival are setting the precedent. Read more ...
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PSR® Critical Body Response - Preventing Injury
The occupational hazards in the Fire Service are ranked serious contenders as the highest injury producing factors of any professional working arena. Disability injury in the Fire Services has reached epidemic proportions. In addition to the toll in pain and loss of professional resource personnel, the medical, Worker's Compensation premiums, and replacement costs, are forcing cutbacks in needed new Fire service operations staff and equipment. A highly specialized body mechanics safety and critical body response training agency has emerged at the forefront with successful results and statistics in reducing and controlling the 70% of preventable disability injuries to firefighting personnel. Read more...
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