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Increased Injury Risks for Employers Following the COVID-19 Pandemic

As of April, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor reported national unemployment at 6.1 percent, with 9.8 million people unemployed. While these statistics are nearly twice as high as those of the months preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers continue to struggle in recruiting and hiring enough workers to fill job openings, particularly in warehousing …

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Food Warehouse Workers are at Increasing Injury Risk

A Thirty Year Retrospective   Thirty years ago, a prospective validation study in food warehousing found that newly hired individuals whose measured physical abilities were less than the routinely encountered job demands experienced injury rates 2.5 times that of those whose measured physical abilities met or exceeded those demands. This study, completed by Advanced Ergonomics, …

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Importance of a Job Analysis

Employers rely on job descriptions for many reasons. Typical uses include relaying information to prospective applicants or to a physician following an injury for treatment and return-to-work considerations, not to mention for claims settlements. Have you ever asked where the information in the job description came from in the first place? In the past, as …

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