1. The number of workplace accidents is increasing, but it is not clear who or what is responsible. 2. Dear defended his department before a House Appropriations subcommittee, saying budget cuts lead to more workplace accidents. 3. Experts note that drugs and alcohol play an incalculable role in workplace accidents. 4. Hayes has also started an organization called Families in Grief Hold Together, or FIGHT, to assist other families who have lost members in workplace accidents. 5. He joined other victims of workplace accidents on Capitol Hill Thursday to lobby lawmakers to save OSHA from Republican budget cutters. 6. However, workplace accidents are not covered in the regulations. 7. In exchange, workers could not sue employers for workplace accidents. 8. Other injuries are more serious and include exposure to various industrial chemicals, workplace accidents and debilitating injuries to backs, shoulders and elbows. 9. The agency does not investigate workplace accidents involving railroads, airlines, motor vehicles or criminal acts. 10. Trauma response teams now conduct debriefings for all kinds of groups, especially employees exposed to workplace accidents, co-worker deaths or suicides, robberies or even massive layoffs. |