Employment Regulation

Due to the rise of workplace violence, an employee is safer at home than at work.

Bionomics is the science of adapting the job to the biomechanical needs of the worker.

Once OSHA has developed a proposed standard, it must publish its recommendation in the Federal Register.

One characteristic of all workers' compensation systems is that the employee is only required to demonstrate that the injury or illness was work related.

Like the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the OSH Act permits individual states to establish and manage their own safety and health programs for the private sector.

An independent craftsman is expected to assume all personal financial consequences of a workplace injury.

Employers are required by law to automatically admit compliance safety and health officers onto their premises.

An employee with a mental illness that can be shown to have a connection to the nature of his employment would not be eligible for workers' compensation.

Forms 300 and 301 are the primary recording and reporting forms established by OSHA.

Increasingly, injured employees are bringing actions in the courts instead of filing claims under workers' compensation statutes.

Workers' compensation laws preclude employees from suing for injuries intentionally inflicted by employers.

OSHA may impose penalties and fines for employer violations of the OSH Act.

The OSHRC is not completely independent from OSHA.

If an employer is selected for the BLS survey, it is mandatory that the employer maintains the requisite safety records.

The concept of providing financial relief for workers injured or killed in industrial accidents originated in Canada in the 1880s.

Whistleblowers are not protected against retaliation for filing an OSHA complaint because the OSH Act contains no language in regards to whistleblowers at all.

If an injured employee can continue employment in another position, she would not be entitled to disability benefits.

The exclusivity principle would apply to a situation where an employer told his employee to ignore a safety procedure, and in doing so the employee was injured.

Prior to the enactment of workers' compensation statutes, the only recourse for injured workers was to sue their employers for damages under state tort laws.

In most states, workers' compensation claims resolution has become a cumbersome and time-consuming process.