The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) or WPA was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people ...

It's all too easy to launch an exciting, new workplace safety program with colorful posters, theme buttons, and a pizza lunch, but without a simple, ongoing safety incentive program, your overall ...

Worker compensation is a fairly new thing, dating only back to the Labor Movement in the early 1900s. Before that, injuries on the job were usually treated with either indifference or cheap ...

The department announced it has mailed a new set to employers in the state because injured workers now must see a network medical provider for ongoing care. Washington state's Department of Labor & ...

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Health and safety promotion in the workplace is vital to the functioning and overall satisfaction of staff. When employees are sick or injured and cannot work, other employees need to take on the ...

Work safety is everyone's shared responsibility in any organization. While policies and procedures are essential to workplace safety, they aren’t enough on their own. There needs to be a mindset in ...

Every year, nearly 3 million people die due to exposure to common risk factors in the workplace. Work-related diseases were responsible for 81 per cent of all work-related deaths in 2016, with an ...