A federal administrative law judge ruled that a Bradenton behavioral healthcare of Florida and its management firm subjected staff to more than 50 assaults during a two-and-a-half-year stretch in which patients attacked, stabbed, bit, scratched, dragged, and used desk scissors like a knife and that both institutions deserved to be sanctioned for deleting surveillance recordings demonstrating this workplace abuse. The decision comes following an Occupational Safety and Health Administration inquiry at Suncoast in 2017 after a patient jumped over a nurse’s …
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The average number of automobile accidents in the USA is around 6 million each year. Killing more than 90 people every day and a total of about 38,000 people over a year. Driving is a very serious task and should be conducted with proper training and guidelines. Per year, almost 2 million passengers in car accidents sustain permanent injury. In this article, we will discuss accident prevention and safe driving. Maintain your full focus on the road at all times. …
KANSAS CITY, MO – In the midst of heavy rain and extensive floods in southwestern Missouri, the United States The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration advises employees and the general public to prevent potential dangers and learn how to defend themselves as clean-up efforts continue. Clean-up work may include restoring power, communications, water, and sewage services; finishing demolition; accessing flooded areas and clearing floodwater from buildings; removing the debris; trimming trees; fixing structures, roadways, and bridges; using …
OSHA fines Dollar Tree as employees around the country have to experience the same unsafe work practices that they have for many years at the nationwide discount chain. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has reviewed business sites more than 300 times since 2016. OSHA found that the firm subjected employees to fire, entrapment, struck-by hazard, closed exit paths, and poorly packed boxes and other products that might collapse and kill workers after an October 2020 inspection at a Dollar …