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The workplace can be a challenging place. It is a place in which safety has evolved significantly in the last 100 years. There are layers of protections for workers today that simply did not exist […]

There is a developing tendency to consider obesity from different perspectives. Body habitus is not new to these pages. See Can I Get a Team Gulp (July 2014), Stool Transplant (October 2019), What's in a Name (August 2020), Comorbidity of Obesity (October 2021), The BMI […]

Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that slips, trips, and falls were the second-leading cause of fatal workplace injuries over the last five years. If your organization is still not prioritizing hazard […]

Public entities have their work cut out for them when it comes to safeguarding law enforcement officers. We identify four common and challenging issues that, when addressed, can be very effective. According to statistics reported to […]

The challenges and tribulations of professionalism in the practice of law, and specifically in the Worker’s Compensation community, have been in the fore lately. There has been much discussion of the separation that came through […]

A lot was put by the wayside during the pandemic including Safety Committee Meetings. Unfortunately, during that time, many employees became overworked and frustrated, with double shifts, covering for co-workers’ illness, and making up safety […]

Another OJCC winter seminar is behind us. Over one hundred lawyers, risk professionals, and more gathered at the Florida First District Court last week for a series of panel discussions focused upon the challenges of […]

The budget hawks in DC are threatening to prevent us from borrowing money to pay our bills..if we don’t agree to some yet-to-be-defined and pretty massive spending cuts. The total Federal budget for FY 2023 […]