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Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic through Oct. 8, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited 85 establishments for violations relating to coronavirus, resulting in proposed penalties totaling $1,222,156. And this may just be the start. Under the General Duty Clause, OSHA…

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Workers’ compensation mega claims, those that cost $3 million or more at 2018 cost levels, are on the rise, according to a recent study by a group of 10 U.S. rating agencies. About 4,500 claims with incurred loss in excess of $3 million were reported from 2001 to 2017 as…

Is six feet really the limit for person-to-person COVID-19 transmission? Unfortunately for businesses, the answer to that question seems to depend on who you ask. Recently, it may also have depended on when you ask. On Sept. 18, the CDC posted on its website that the coronavirus is transmitted mainly…

Workforce drug positivity rates hit a 16-year high in 2019, with positive marijuana test rates climbing by double digits across almost all testing categories, according to Quest Diagnostics’ annual Drug Testing Index. Positivity rates in the U.S. workforce increased in urine drug tests to 4.5%, the highest level since 2003,…

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Mortality numbers in the U.S. for COVID-19, by August, have already surpassed the total number of preventable, accidental deaths in the country in 2018, the most recent year of final data, according to the National Safety Council. The latest data reveals the number of confirmed and probable COVID-deaths in the…