Do you feel like workplace stress is fairly common? Maybe you work in a face-paced job with a lot of deadlines. Everyone always tries to work hard to hit their deadlines and make progress.While productivity is important in any industry, experts warn that stress often...
All workers have the right to expect a safe workplace. Unfortunately, some employers put profit before people and choose to try to bypass safety laws that are set forth by federal and state agencies to help keep workers safe. When this happens, the worker is the...
The construction industry is a dangerous one for workers. Around 21 percent of all work-related deaths in this country occurs in this industry. The vast majority of these deaths are caused by four types of accidents. These are known as the fatal four. Here are the...
If you work on an assembly line in an Illinois factory, your hands are likely your most valuable tools. Will you be able to do your job of you lose the use of one of your hands? Thousands of workers visit emergency rooms every year with serious injuries to their...
There are various safety risks that could come up for people who work at poultry processing plants. This includes musculoskeletal injury risks. Examples of such injuries poultry processing workers sometimes suffer include:Carpal tunnel syndromeLower back...
In an Illinois workplace where you handle heavy objects and loads, in many instances it is a bad call to try and move something by yourself. Even if you understand how to properly lift a heavy object, some loads are simply too much for your arms alone. Attempting to...
Whenever workplace injuries cross our minds, our first thoughts dash to construction workers operating mechanical or state-of-the-art equipment across the U.S. Hardly do we think of office workers who are subjected to a workplace injury in their professional...
When we think of workplace injuries, the image that usually comes to mind is factory workers who operate heavy machinery or construction workers who do their work on scaffolding. However, industrial jobs aren't the only ones that come with a risk of injury. Sitting at...
Every year, thousands of workers fall prey to some form of injury at the workplace. The injuries can range from slight mishaps that can be fixed with a band-aid to life-threatening injuries that can incapacitate the worker. A lot of time and effort has been spent...
Working as a nurse can be a rewarding career. However, most days you probably go home with a backache as your reward. Standing for long periods of time, bending, stooping and lifting all put a strain on your back that can lead to serious injury.Some nurses are...
