In the last year, American businesses have confronted challenging market factors including the pandemic, a housing surge, a tight labor market, and increasing material costs. These macroeconomic factors can directly impact worker safety and wellbeing, making it more...
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Bad Posture a Growing Problem for Agribusiness
Agriculture, Farm Labor, Risk, Safety
It’s nearly impossible for a worker to pick produce that grows on the ground, such as strawberries, without stooping or squatting. Consider the repetitive nature of the motions required to pick numerous berries in an hour, day, and week and it can quite literally...
Construction Workers Compensation: A Briefing for 2022
Construction, Safety, Staff Picks, Trends
The size, nature, and economic importance of the construction industry make it a compelling study in workers compensation. Workers perform some of the most dangerous jobs there are, and an abundance of regulations exist to protect them. As a result, construction...
Facilitating Risk Tech Adoption in 2022
Business Growth, Compliance, Incidents & Claims, Safety, Trends
There is a disconnect in the current workers compensation market. Rates are effectively based on a snapshot of the company and industry taken years prior. A policyholder can lower their premium if they experience fewer losses. But even with zero losses, it takes time....
Easing Construction Worker Stress Despite Economic Climate
A notable increase in demand for construction deliverables and labor combined has created a unique set of both opportunities and challenges for your construction clients. Covid-era consumer interest in homebuying is still trending above normal, and forecasts indicate...
Worker Mental Health a Key Focus for Manufacturing Safety Culture
COVID-19, Manufacturing, Safety, Trends
In the wake of two years of pandemic living, most Americans are confronting stress in their lives on a daily basis, at home and at work. Your clients in the manufacturing sector were already feeling the strain before COVID-19, as a 2017 Mental Health America study...
Preventing Crane Accidents Must Be a Priority for Busy Construction Workers
Construction, Equipment Safety, Risk, Safety
Crane accidents have the potential to become massive and tragic events, not just for the construction workers on a job site, but for members of the community in the vicinity of the crane. Just last month, a Michigan man lost his life when a crane overturned on a job....
A Matter of Growing Concern: Agricultural Workers in Smoky Conditions
Agriculture, Farm Labor, Risk, Safety, Trends
With wildfires becoming more frequent in more regions of the US, the health hazards of working outdoors in smoky air is at issue for hundreds of thousands of workers—not just those fighting the fires—and workers don’t have to be that close to the fire to be affected....
Ladders Pose a Heightened Risk for Your Orchard and Grove Clients
Agriculture, Farm Labor, Safety
Ladders are a source of workplace accidents everywhere they’re used, but your orchard and grove clients need to pay special attention to ladder safety. When you consider the way workers use ladders in these settings—the reaching, the constant climbing up and...
How to Prevent Deadly Equipment-Riding Accidents on Farms
Agriculture, Compliance, Equipment Safety, Farm Labor, Incidents & Claims, Risk, Safety
Even with a steady stream of new standards and regulations in both worker and work equipment safety, agriculture is still one of the most dangerous industries in the U.S. Some of the highest severity injuries can be blamed on riding farm equipment—tractors, ATVs,...
How Mental Health is Being Addressed in the Construction Industry
In an industry that can be deadline-oriented in the best of times, the pandemic and nationwide supply chain shortages have compounded stressful conditions for many of your construction clients and their employees. Workers are stretched thin. They’re concerned...
The Best Arborists and Tree Care Pros Focus on This Potentially-Life Saving Issue
By Emilio Figueroa, Chief Insurance Officer, Foresight As Foresight recently highlighted right here on our blog, Arborists and Tree Care Professionals are busier than ever, and “busy season” is now 365-day-a-year event. A mentality of “work hard and fast” is common....