| It is estimated that over 40 million
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| | increase the prices of the goods they
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| workers in the United States had to
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| | produce. This places the burden of
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| receive emergency medical treatment for
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| | expense on the consumer, and allows
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| workplace-related injuries in the year
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| | companies to ignore the root cause of
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| 2003. This is a staggering number when
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| | their workplace injuries. The focus here
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| one considers the efforts most companies
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| | seems to be on maintaining a healthy
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| have put into maintaining a safe
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| | relationship with shareholders, and not
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| workplace. In modern times, a number of
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| | necessarily on maintaining a healthy
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| companies have been found liable for
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| | workforce.
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| injuries sustained in their places of
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| | It is interesting to note that there are
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| business. There is a relationship that
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| | record numbers of jobs, especially in the
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| exists between workplace safety and
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| | industrial sector, being sent overseas.
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| profitability.
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| | There are a number of reasons to account
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| Every company, especially those involved
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| | for this. One of the most significant
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| in industrial manufacturing, is
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| | reasons is that American companies are
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| constantly looking at ways to
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| | able to shave their operating costs down
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| continuously improve their products and
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| | to a fraction of their domestic costs, by
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| processes. They realize that their
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| | capitalizing on cheaper labor in foreign
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| profits are directly related to the ways
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| | markets. Foreign governments, eager for
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| and means by which they produce their
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| | investment, are all too willing to
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| products. Unfortunately, too many
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| | accommodate the interests of big western
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| companies get caught up in drive for
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| | business. Far too often, this comes at
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| higher profits and tend to allow
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| | the expense of workplace safety.
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| workplace safety to become an
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| | If companies want to be profitable in the
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| afterthought.
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| | long term, they need to reexamine their
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| The costs associated with operating a
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| | approach to workplace safety and the
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| large manufacturing facility in America
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| | health of their workers. Many companies
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| are astounding. Workplace injuries place
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| | are sending jobs overseas, in order to
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| a massive burden of expense and weakened
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| | take advantage of cheap labor and relaxed
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| productivity on a company. These
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| | labor laws. American companies can be
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| injuries can be reduced with proper
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| | both profitable and safety conscious.
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| planning and careful attention to detail.
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| | Through directed education campaigns and
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| Most workplace injuries are preventable.
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| | preemptive planning, workplace injuries
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| There are a number of factors to
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| | can be reduced in a significant way.
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| consider, but maintaining a safe and tidy
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| | Remember: a safe worker is a happy
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| work area is one of the best ways to
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| | worker, and a happy worker is a
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| prevent injury. Workers, too, have a
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| | productive worker.
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| responsibility in keeping themselves safe
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| | Jim Staller is very passionate about
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| from harm.
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| | workplace safety. When he is not
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| Workplace injuries place a significant
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| | researching the latest health and safety
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| burden on health care providers and
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| | information, he writes for - an excellent
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| insurance companies. As companies
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| | online resource for information about
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| continue to pay higher premiums for
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| | Safety Supplies, Industrial Electronics,
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| employee health care, one of the only
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| | Equipment and more.
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| means available for cost recovery is to
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