Workers’ compensation provides insurance against job-related injuries, but as many as half of injured workers choose not to file. A common explanation for this is the existence of private health insurance, an alternative source of health care that may discourage insured workers from taking the time to file a workers’ compensation claim. However, data from the NLSY paint a surprising picture: un...

But other definitions are sharper, e.g. impairment is a physiologic or anatomic dysfunction which is easily measured identically from person to person. Disability, then, becomes the result of that impairment on the individual with all of the personal characteristics including age, co-morbid conditions, education, experience, etc. Handicap adds the environment to the mix. This involves the job m...

1 An employee injured at work in the UK is able to claim not only no-fault social security benefit from the state under the industrial injuries compensation scheme, but also damages from the employer if liability in tort can be established. Use of one system of compensation does not lead to exclusion from the other; there is no ‘employer privilege’ preventing an employee claiming from both work...

WHAT ARE THE PERSONAL and eccmcmuc characterlstlcs of workers’ compensatmn beneficlarles~ As of March 1973, proportmnately more men were among workers’ compensatmn benefiaarles than mere among the total experienced work force Beneficmrles were older, less educated, and more apt to be the head of a household than were experienced workers These findmgs are based on the data reported m the March 1...

The aim of this study is to analyze the subjective perception of risks for rural workers in Abruzzo, an area of central Italy. A group of 273 workers were asked to fill in a questionnaire which included, apart from general information, questions relative to six different types of risks normally found in the field of agriculture. The types of risks considered were: falling from a height, manuall...

In high-reliability work settings, most human work is performed by teams of workers who often engage in collaborative information behavior to solve complex problems. In this paper, we examine collaborative information behavior of trauma teams during trauma resuscitation, a team-dependent, fast-paced and information-laden process of evaluating critically injured patients early after injury. We i...

In today's world the agricultural sector employs half of the world's labour force with an estimated 1.3 billion workers active in agricultural production worldwide. The majority of agricultural workers are found in developing countries. A great majority are small scale farmers. They have been more often victims rather than beneficiaries of the green revolution, the technological development and...

Many developed countries have banned the use of asbestos, but not the United States. There have, however, been multiple efforts in the US to establish strict exposure standards, to limit asbestos use, and to seek compensation through the courts for asbestos-injured workers' In consequence of these efforts, asbestos use has declined dramatically, despite the absence of a legally mandated ban. Th...

In the modern day environment, workers' compensation costs continue to be a challenge, with a need to balance costs, benefits, and quality of medical care. The cost of workers' compensation care affects all stakeholders including workers, employers, providers, regulators, legislators, and insurers. Consequently, a continued commitment to quality, accessibility to care, and cost containment will...