The distribution industry sees a steady stream of workplace incidents. Between trucking and warehousing the injury rates are among the highest in the commercial world. According to OSHA, heavy and tractor trailer truck drivers had the third highest rate of nonfatal injury compared with all other occupations. In the warehouse, around 100 employees are killed and tens […]
Workplace Incident Recording and Local Government
Local Governments are expected to do a lot. Cities, counties, school boards, and public-service agencies all run functions that range from law enforcement and fire/rescue to sanitation, maintenance, and animal control. They manage large workforces operating vehicles and heavy equipment across a broad area. Not surprisingly, these organizations share a common problem – recording and […]
King ROI
Those of us who’ve retained something from our high-school foreign-language studies may recall that “Roi” is French for “King”. However, for those who prefer the even more international language of Business, ROI stands for “Return-on-Investment”, one of the most fundamental metrics in most decision-making processes, a fancy term for “is it worth doing?” With the […]
Flows, not Forms.
A key aspect of any data collection has to do with its intake: Industrial Automation benefits from sentient electronic sensors, uploading the information directly to a server, the Financial industry has implemented massive system integration between disparate systems and networks, and Logistics organizations often utilize robotics and optical coding to track distribution progress. These important […]
Fit to be Screened
Traditionally, the term “Fit-for-Work” (or, as it’s known to our English cousins across The Pond, “Fit-for-Duty”) referred to the form signed by an employee’s doctor following their return from a work-related injury or illness, signifying that they were “cleared” to resume their previous assigned tasks, or some possibly modified version of them. This typically absolved […]
Bob and Tom, for the win…
In his 2001 song “Mississippi”, Grammy, Oscar, Golden Globe, Pulitzer and Nobel winner Bob Dylan informs us “You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way”. I’ve been pondering the relevance of this pronouncement in the context of our current times, and came to the conclusion that, as always, Bob knew […]
Describe, Document, Defend: Why Workplace Illness and Symptom Recording is Vital
It’s both astonishing and exhilarating how our country comes together at times of National crisis, shouldering the collective burden and collaborating towards a speedy resolution and return to better times. We’ve experienced this in times of war, natural and economic disasters, and now with the COVID-19 Pandemic. However, what is a unique American creation is […]