2020 Workplace Injury Statistics
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries & Illnesses report (published on Nov. 2020) the total injuries per 100 full-time workers remained unchanged at 2.8. 

Your company has employees working long hours, while doing physically challenging work that requires repetition and heavy lifting.  Sounds a bit like an athlete working hard to win the game, doesn't it?

A recent NetSuite article for CFOs — titled "5 Unexpected (and Painless) Ways to Cut Expenses" — contained an interesting survey, as well as useful advice, on how companies can conserve cash.

Does your industrial company use a nursing hotline to deal with workplace injuries? 

Quite a lot, apparently. 

As the CFO, you're responsible for managing all the financial activities within your company. You are tasked with saving or mitigating costs where ever and wherever you are able but there may be an area being ignored that could prove extremely valuable. 

Join Healthy Roster and the National Safety Council in welcoming in the 25th anniversary of National Safety Month!

Amazon has over 80 distribution and warehouse facilities in the U.S. and can employ 1,000 to over 1,500 full-time workers to handle the demand of storing, sorting and shipping packages. That many people, doing that much heavy lifting and repetitive motion, can lead to a lot of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in the workplace. 

Injuries happen to us humans all the time. But never more so than when we're involved in physical activity—like playing a sport of working hard on our feet. We twist our ankles, strain our backs, and tweak our rotator cuffs.  

What are MSDs?