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Improving Patient and Worker Safety - Joint Commission
www.jointcommission.orgsionals whose focus is on occupational health and safety, however, are likely aware of additional statistics that are less well known: health care workers experience some of the highest rates of nonfatal occupational illness and injury—exceeding even construction and …
619 Materials Handling Safety - OSHAcademy
www.oshatrain.orgnonfatal occupational injuries involving days away from work. • Hands, arms, and feet are also vulnerable to injury during manual handling of materials. • Overexertion cases with lost workdays account for more than 25% of all lost-workday cases. Most of those cases were due to lifting. Pushing/pulling and carrying also result in
Housing: Before, During, And After The Great Recession
www.bls.govIn 2012, workers in the framing contractors industry were safer, as the rate of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses for all recordable cases was 3.7 incidents per 100 full-time workers compared with a rate of 12.0 in 2003. The rate for private industry decreased from 5.0 in 2003 to 3.4 in 2012. While injuries and illness rates
Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and …
www.bls.gov2 Chart 2. Nonfatal occupational injury and illness incidence rates by selected private industry sector, 2003-16 Four private industry sectors—construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, and retail trade—