Dollars & Sense More communication, more services and more medical intervention can make a workers’ compensation claim look exceptionally well managed. The important question is whether all that activity is helping the injured worker recover.  […]

Dollars & Sense Every organization in the workers’ compensation system has legitimate goals. The challenge emerges when individually reasonable decisions combine to create consequences nobody intended.  Consider a workers’ compensation claim in which everyone appears […]

Dollars & Sense Predictive tools can identify expensive workers’ compensation claims. Whether the response improves recovery and reduces total costs demands a different kind of proof.  A workers’ compensation claim receives a high-risk score. The […]

Spooky Safe Halloween gives us a fascinating opportunity to watch attention change inside an ordinary workplace. A skeleton appears beside the copier. A coworker arrives dressed as a dinosaur. Someone announces the costume contest while […]

Spooky Safe A workplace can look exactly the same while becoming a completely different risk environment. Bring-your-family events, office trick-or-treating, trunk-or-treat celebrations, pumpkin patches, and other Halloween activities introduce people who were never part of […]

Spooky Safe Pumpkin carving looks simple because the ingredients are familiar: a pumpkin, a knife, a table, and a design. Familiar objects can disguise an unfamiliar task. Most employees participating in a workplace carving contest […]

Spooky Safe A Halloween costume can change the physical conditions under which someone performs a familiar job. A mask narrows the available visual field. Different shoes change the relationship between the feet and the floor. […]

Spooky Safe Halloween decorations can transform a workplace in a matter of hours. Extension cords cross floors that were clear yesterday. Pumpkins appear beside entrances, displays narrow walking paths, artificial cobwebs extend into doorways, and […]