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HR is responsible for keeping a record of all workplace accidents or illnesses to report to OSHA.

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Did the COVID-19 pandemic cause and increase in Form 300 (OSHA) filings during 2020 due to contagion rates increasing?

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HR professionals may encourage employees to take vacation time, partake in flextime, or encourage employees to take weekends off to help reduce stress.

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Did work related stress levels increase or decrease during 2020 due to working remotely?

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Apart from ensuring an injured employee obtains medical care and is treated fairly, the principal role of HR is to develop and implement appropriate policies and procedures in line with current work-related laws, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and any other applicable state laws and company benefit plans.

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What are the underlying causes of most workplace related accidents and illnesses?

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What are the most common causes of workplace accidents and illnesses?

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HR helps create a safe work environment by implementing an effective accident prevention and wellness program. They ensure that the program covers all employee safety and health levels and encourages employees to report unsafe practices or behavior.

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How many accidents are caused by improper training?

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HR helps people to create a safe work place and most of the time you could look up OSHA regulations for help. The reason why is OSHA covers allot of workplaces and what they do and they even cover equipment requirements.

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HR also keeps track of work place accidents that why they can keep track of everything happening. They can also use this data and route it up to leadership to let them know what's happening.

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How many workplace accidents and illnesses are caucused by stress?

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OSHA’s record-keeping requirements cite COVID-19 as a recordable illness, deeming employers responsible for recording cases if an a conformed COVID-19 case is recorded as defined by the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the case is work-related, the case involves one of more of the general recording criteria. Due to the difficulty of determining work-relatedness, OSHA implemented enforcement discretion to assess efforts in determining work-relatedness. If the employer is unable to determine if the exposure ocured within the workplace, they are not required to record cases of COVID-19 (Jilings, 2020). Therefore, it is undetermined if the true amount of COVID-19 recordings in the workplace were deemed work-related incidents during 2020, or an  outside exposure and did not cause a citable increase in Form 300 filings.

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Surveys conducted during the pandemic have found that many workers have been experiencing symptoms of burnout (which results from chronic workplace stress and can impact an individual’s motivation and productivity) and adverse mental health outcomes.

Roughly one third of U.S. adults report being essential workers during the pandemic, meaning they are still required to work outside their home during the pandemic. Surveys conducted in June 2020 found that although a substantial share of all adult workers reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder, essential workers reported these adverse effects more often than non-essential workers. Essential workers, compared to non-essential workers, also reported higher rates of substance use and suicidal thoughts (Kamal et al, 2020).

From the surveys and data provided, we may determine that stress levels significantly increased within the workplace during 2020 as opposed to levels prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The three principal causes of work-related injuries are overexertion and bodily reaction, slips, trips, falls, contact with objects, and improper use of equipment. Together they account for more than 84% of all nonfatal injuries.

According to NSC Injury Facts (2021), overexertion and bodily reaction include:

Non-impact injuries: Result from excessive physical effort directed at an outside source; everyday activities including lifting, pushing, turning, holding, carrying, or throwing.

Slips, trips, and falls include the subsequent events:

Slips and trips without falling: Injuries occurring when a worker catches him/herself from falling due to slip or trip

Falling on the same level: Involves tripping, slipping, falling while sitting, and falling onto or against an object on the same level.

Contact with objects and equipment includes:

A worker striking against an object or equipment, including bumping into, stepping on, kicking, or being pushed or thrown onto an object

A part of a worker’s body being squeezed, pinched, compressed, or crushed in equipment, between shifting objects, between stationary objects, or in a wire or rope.

Reference:
NSC Injury Facts. (2021, January 8). Top work-related injury causes. Injury Facts. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/work/work-overview/top-work-related-injury-causes/

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Some of the underlying causes of workplace-related accidents and illnesses include job tasks and procedures, work environment, management and organization, and the individual worker or workforce. When looking at job tasks and procedures, ensure that they are adequately designed to ensure safety and practicability. An ideal work environment should include an ideal work area with good air quality with proper temperature. Management should ensure that an adequate safety program is established, resources, good communication, and a proper system for reporting problems are available to employees.

Reference:

Garcia, I. F. (2020, March 10). Underlying causes of workplace injuries and illnesses. Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety. https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/news/underlying-causes-workplace-injuries-and-illnesses

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There is multiple illness that stress causes and people have been hit in the workplace 2% is what has been reported.  Other related illness caused are sleep related and that’s 34% while neck pain is at 62%.  There is also eye strain at 44% and hands at 12%.  You also have people calling in sick because they just need to relieve some of that stress and that is about 12%.  Now there are two reports that have been published about stress at work.  One focuses on the job while the other focuses on attitudes of the employees.  The NIOSH report says that 40% of employees are extremely stressful at their job.  There are 25% of the employees said it was the top stressed in their life and 26% said that they are often burned out by it.  It states that “job stress is more strongly associated with health complaints than financial or family problems.”(Workplace Stress, 2021)  The other report is Attitudes in the American Workplace VII and here it states 80% feel stress and that 42% need help learning to manage that stress.  Now the employees have felt like screaming at work and that was about 25% while 10% are worried about certain personal being violent.  That 10% should feel concerned because 14% felt like hitting a person but didn’t.  Now even thought they didn’t 9% are aware of acts like this at work and 18% experience verbal violence.

Workplace Stress. The American Institute of Stress. (2021, February 9). https://www.stress.org/workplace-stress.

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In my old workplace accidents can happen easily if someone is not trained right and they could be minor injuries but also some could mean someone’s life.  So, you want make sure people are trained right and the statistic I found is based on forklifts it was hard to get actually numbers on everything but knowing from experience there is training on forklifts and certifications.  Now it states that close to 100,000 injuries happen every year due to improper training or carelessness.  Now it also says that there are roughly only 855,900 forklifts so that’s not even 1 to 10 injuries a forklift.  Now some of these injuries could be caught if trained right and taught how to inspect the forklift to make sure everything is working properly.

Forklift Safety: Facts, Stats and Tips for Safe Operation [Infographic]. Optimum Safety Management. (2019, June 27). https://www.optimumsafetymanagement.com/blog/forklift-safety-infographic/.