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Act now to ensure your workers' safety
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Natural Foods Merchandiser
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April 1, 2008
- Author:
- Colter, Carolee
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Copyright informationCopyright Penton Media, Inc. Apr 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Natural Employer
Acute back pain. A broken bone from a fall. A finger caught in a meat slicer. While these workplace accidents mean pain and suffering for your employees, they also mean costs to your business.
Liberty Mutual, the leading provider of workers' compensation insurance, estimates that the direct costs of a workplace accident-payments to injured employees and their medical providers-are only a quarter of the indirect costs such as lost work time and productivity, overtime for other staff, pay for replacement workers, administrative time, not to mention higher workers' compensation premiums.
Until you've experienced a workplace accident or an Occupational Safety and Health ...