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Boeing Co.'s C-17 World Class Safety Team has developed a solution to prevent workplace injuries and cope with rising workers' compensation costs. The Integrated Safety Management System was created through brainstorming, benchmarking and use of fishbone diagrams. Details of the quality program are discussed.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Since FASB Statement no. 123(R) began requiring companies to recognize an expense equal to the grant-date fair value of options awarded as compensation, there has been a [...]

Issues concerning the increase in telecommuting and the need for employers to make sure telecommuters' work sites comply with federal health and safety standards are discussed. The absence of a ruling on whether workers' compensation covers telecommuting employees is also mentioned.

A study was conducted to benchmark disability and health care benefits in 140 US communications and energy companies. It included a survey to acquire data on occupational research, health care delivery, health care administration, workers' compensation, health promotion and disease prevention, short- and long-term disability benefits, occupational safety and industrial hygiene and data and finances and communications. Results showed that many companies do not integrate workers' compensation, disability benefits and group health activities and that managed care is a major cost-control strategy in all areas except workers' compensation.

Using practice guidelines, employers and providers have developed a new tool to hammer down rising workers' comp costs. Workers' compensation claims are so expensive that the treatment employees receive under [...]

Indestructible Paint Ltd. is announcing a major aerospace accreditation achievement. The specialist coating manufacturer has obtained AS9100 Revision D, reflecting a company-wide commitment to achieving and maintaining high quality aerospace [...]

Sec'y Dole Wants OSHA To Speed Rule Making Washington - U.S. Labor Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole wants to step up the pace of rule making at the Occupational Safety and [...]

Care UK could face industrial action in Islington, north London, over plans to halve pay and change conditions for some staff. Andrew Berry, deputy branch secretary of Islington Unison, said [...]

Handling library books -- there's not much in that activity that can cause an on-the-job injury for library workers, right? Wrong. Picking up one lone library book might not pose [...]

Wal-Mart Challenges Most Comp Claims WAL-MART STORES Inc., punished last month by the state of Washington for problems administering its self-insured workers' compensation program, is in good standing with the [...]

Small-business owner Terry Peterson spent more than three years volunteering on a committee to revise how the Department of Labor and Industries handles the vocational training requirement for worker's compensation. [...]

Insurance industry mergers and deteriorating insurer finances are combining to expand a long-established line of business for reinsurers: adverse loss development covers aimed at rescuing insurers from themselves. Reinsurers have [...]

Insurance groups are blasting a proposed federal ergonomic standard as unsupported by science, overly expensive and an unwarranted intrusion into the state workers' compensation system. But labor unions are countering [...]

Insurers think the government's proposed ergonomics standard could expose employers to new liability for workplace injuries. Although the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued its draft of an ergonomics [...]

The World Health Organization calls it a worldwide epidemic. Every day, it causes a million American employees to miss work. It accounts for a estimated 75 percent of doctor visits. [...]

Insurers are breathing easier in the knowledge that the Clinton administration's proposed standards for medical privacy exclude workers' compensation coverage and other casualty lines. 'We're pleased, on initial reading, that [...]

The New York Court of Appeals recently issued another decision involving workers' compensation benefits. In this case, the claimant was working as a phlebotomist for New York Neurologic Associates on [...]

The passage of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 has led to improved efficiency in the group-health claims-handling process as a result of a standardized electronic data [...]

Pennsylvania employers and their workers' compensation insurers will soon have a new tool to determine whether workers are permanently injured. Advocates for injured workers, however, believe it will make it [...]

The demand for data regarding workers' compensation managed care is increasing as states lay down rules on the certification and accreditation of managed care organizations. These types of information are used by organizations to meet performance standards set by accrediting groups like the URAC. The accreditation and certification processes are expected to improve overall industry performance.

Organizations need personnel to perform services or produce goods. Depending on the nature of the relationship and the degree of control the company exercises over the worker, a worker can [...]

Workers' Comp. Reforms Recommended In AIA Plan WASHINGTON--The American Insurance Association has developed a workers' compensation reform plan that it hopes will serve as a guideline for reform efforts across [...]

AIA Meets With AFL-CIO On WC Ills WASHINGTON - The American Insurance Association and the AFL-CIO have opened a dialogue that could lead to a major joint effort to cure [...]