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Management Strategy to Reduce Personnel Stress and Workers’ Comp Costs
The following newsletter is about a topic that caused me a tremendous amount of stress, long work hours, and employees that became all too dependent on me. That is until I learned a simple yet powerful management strategy that changed my life at work and at home. It...
“Employees Don’t Listen!”… Really?
Twenty years ago or so when conducting research into why back injuries wouldn't go away, we discovered some interesting facts. Risk Managers, Operation Managers, HR Directors, and Safety Professionals uniformly complained that when it came to preventing back injuries,...
What Would Ralph Waldo Emerson Say About Workers’ Comp Costs?
Twenty years ago I thought I stepped into the twilight zone. We were conducting research into how to prevent workplace strain/sprains, particularly back injuries. We were told by several companies in the U.S., Canada and Australia that despite years of trying, they...
Workers’ Compensation, Fraud and Alligator Arms
It may have happened to you before. You are enjoying a nice lunch with a new acquaintance. The check arrives at the table and you magnanimously pick up the check and pay for lunch. Your new acquaintance thanks you graciously. A few weeks later another meal is shared...
Creator Cancels Recall Of All Spines
News Flash - Due to the inordinate number of back injuries over the last three decades I began to wonder if my design of the spine was incorrect.There have been many reports of defective backs, much more so than other parts of the musculoskeletal system. Moreover,...
Workers’ Comp Glass Half Full Despite Bad News and Losses
In today’s world of network news, cable news, talk radio and the internet, we are bombarded with news from across the globe. However, have you noticed what the purveyors of news sell as "news"? Why is "news" almost always bad news? Why isn’t good news considered...
Why Training Does Not Prevent Back Injuries
By Dennis Downing Back injuries have been the bane of industry for decades. They are the source of high dollar claims, significant lost workdays, and can instantaneously ruin one’s quality of life forever. Corporate America, despite many attempts, has not been able to...
Three Simple Rules For Back Safety
By Dennis Downing It is has been widely reported that 80% of our population will experience a back incident in their lifetime. That extraordinary number would make one wonder if the spine is designed to withstand the rigors of our work and daily activities.Considering...
Workers’ Comp – A Different Perspective On Cause & Effect
If one looks at the essence of management or life in general, success boils down to the degree of one being more the cause of things versus being more the effect ofthings.The baseball player who can hit the ball with regularity is causing the effect versus the batter...
Ethics, Trust and Workers’ Comp
The United States economy, driven by capitalism, is the richest in the history of this planet. One could say then that we are doing a lot of things right.A key component in the underpinning of capitalism is trust. We buy, purchase, invest and make decisions based on...
Science and Art of Injury Prevention Training
I was sitting in the back of the room listening to a chiropractor teaching a group of employees how to prevent back injuries. He looked like a young version of Jack LaLanne and was a good speaker.He was very knowledgeable about the human anatomy, biomechanics, and the...
Workers’ Comp; Your Company’s Organizational Chart; and Common Sense
An Organizational Chart is defined in the Encarta dictionary as a chart that shows the management structure of an organization. New Companies start out with core members of management and employees that tend to wear many hats. Their names may be in several places on...
Personal Risk Control – Are You In Charge?
Every company, whether it is posted on their Organizational Chart or not, must practice some degree of Risk Control in order to succeed.The ultimate goal of any company is to prosper and that can't be done if risks are not prevented or immediately dealt with when they...
Workers’ Compensation, Goals, Scrums and Solutions
In 1990 I began my workers' compensation career with mouth and eyesagape, wondering how the hell did the workers' compensation system become such a train wreck.I saw the same back sprain happening at work costing multiple times more than when it happened over the...
Workplace Injury Prevention and Ice Cubes to Eskimos
F.I.T. has been in the business of preventing workplace sprain/strain injuries for many years and would like to update you on a couple of things. Historically and incredibly, selling injury prevention services in the US and Canada was like trying to sell ice cubes to...