workplace injuries

How to prevent workplace injuries with artificial intelligence

August 27, 2021

Let’s look at how safety and HR professionals can apply AI to a company’s safety initiatives, provide the data necessary for obtaining meaningful results, avoid common pitfalls, and get the answers needed from an AI assistant.

Fueling safety culture improvement and SIF prevention with BBS 2.0

Josh Williams, Ph.D

August 25, 2021

Although workplace incident rates have steadily declined by 28% over the last decade, rates for serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs) have remained virtually unchanged.

Protecting your aging workforce should be a priority

Dr. Kevan Orvitz

May 13, 2021

People are working longer for many reasons, including the need or desire to continue generating income and the inability to afford early retirement.. Regardless of their motivation, these employees have decades of experience, and it shows in the wear and tear on their bodies and joints.

Proactive fall prevention – in just 2 minutes

Chelsea Kidd, MBA, CSCS, CPT

January 14, 2021

As the second leading preventable workplace injury, falls plague the workforce. The impact of fall related injuries is felt heavily in service-providing industries as well as transportation, utilities and the health care sector.

reporting serious injuries and fatalities

Mich. man crushed to death from 12-ton manufacturing mold

November 12, 2020

A man was crushed to death in a tragic industrial accident when a manufacturing mold weighing upwards of 25,000 pounds fell on top of him while he was at work.

Navigating worker risk and sacrifice in the age of COVID-19

Sean Petterson

May 6, 2020

The global pandemic has presented unforeseeable challenges to millions of our nation's workers, or Industrial Athletes. In a normal year, global labor statistics estimate that nearly 39,000 of these vital workers are injured on the job every hour worldwide and an estimated 5,250 will die as the result of a workplace injury in the United States alone, according to OSHA.

A NIOSH Science Blog post

Artificial intelligence crowdsourcing competition for injury surveillance

March 9, 2020

In 2018, NIOSH, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) contracted the National Academies of Science (NAS) to conduct a consensus study on improving the cost-effectiveness and coordination of occupational safety and health (OSH) surveillance systems.

Burn injuries at Indiana foundry send 4 to hospital

February 20, 2020

Four workers who were performing maintenance at the Waupaca Plant in Tell City, Indiana were transported to the University of Louisville Hospital’s burn unit on Monday after being injured at the facility. Officials have released few details about the incident, which occurred at 10:30 a.m. in the company’s cupola, according to news sources.

Workers comp reports show effects of on-the-job injuries in different states

January 29, 2020

Occupational injuries have a significant effect on earnings and injured workers can have difficulty getting the health care service they need. These were among the findings of reports just released by the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), which compared the outcomes of workers injured on the job in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, and Georgia with outcomes in 11 other states.

No decline in 2018 workplace injury rate

Dave Johnson

November 8, 2019

For the first time since 2012, the national injury rate for U.S. workplaces did not decline in 2018, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. There were 2.8 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses reported by private industry employers in 2018, unchanged from 2017. In both years the total recordable injury case rate (TRC) per 100 full-time workers was 2.8 cases.