Work and the mobile phone

by: stickystebee
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Increasing number of entrepreneurs and business organizations generate many employment opportunities every year and offer better work environments. However, workplace injuries are routine due to population explosion and increase in the number of industries. Such accidents might disable or kill workers and can impair their family’s future. In some countries, corporate organizations appoint the heir of wounded or accidentally killed staff in feasible posts. The economic factors that affect the company are tremendous due to workplace injuries involving medical and legal costs to the management. The process of risk assessment in organizations to prevent workplace injuries involves the following steps:

*Analyze the possibilities for accidents
*Recognize the persons with accident potential due to industrial disasters
*Identify safety measures and
*Take necessary actions to prevent such accidents Some of the common reasons for workplace related accidents are due to collisions, falling from higher altitude, unexpected sickness, machinery failure, electricity, sound disturbances, micro-organisms like bacteria or virus, chemicals, explosion, suffocation, accidentally touching sharp objects, stress, fire, emotional harassment, etc. during work.

Therefore, all employees who work in dangerous machinery must receive appropriate guidance in safety procedures and first aid. They must also have necessary safety devices and protective equipments as a precautionary measure. Due to accidents at work, compensation is available to employees for physical injury or death from the management with the help of accident claims. Health policies also enable the workers to undertake medical treatment in hospitals without any cash obligations. The worker can claim compensation for physical injury, disability, loss of wages, medical expenses, pain and employer’s carelessness. To avail compensation claims, the employee or the management must report the accident to the police force, insurance and legal authorities within the stipulated period.

If the worker consumes alcohol or drugs during the time of accident at work, he is not liable for any compensation claims. It will still be better, if the worker can prove the accident with evidence like videos, photos, etc. using mobile phones of colleagues with digital camera facilities to avail personal injury claim. During 2007 in America, the rate of workplace injuries has decreased by about four percent compared to 2006. Physical strain, tension and electrical disasters were responsible for most of the accidents. Therefore, safety management training and protective equipments are essential for organizations to protect the health of employees in the workplace along with preventive tips for illness, which results in production loss.

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