Wednesday 16 March 2016

Option To Hire Driver, Tailor Or Any Untrained/Unskilled Worker Online

Unskilled workers play an significant role in our life. You can get them everywhere contributing with whatsoever way possible such as driver, tailor, delivery boys, machine operator, field boy, construction labor etc. They don't get rights like the skillful and expert workers. They work attentively yet their work is generally not appreciated by people and they have to struggle quite a lot for a good job. Newly, various job sites were launched keeping in mind the unskilled workers and since then employers are finding this new opportunity to hire driver, tailor or any unskilled worker online a great and relaxed method.

The nature of their work is mostly physical and manual. Unskilled workers normally have low level education or lack any education but if they can at least read and write that would be helpful for them. You can find driver, tailor or delivery boys in Delhi/NCR in large numbers. These unskilled workers migrate to Delhi/NCR from various parts of India especially from poor villages of India so that they can earn a respected salary and live a better life here. You can find machine operator, construction labor, delivery boy, driver, helper and many other types of unskilled workers doing various types of works in Delhi/NCR. Unskilled workers have specific responsibilities belonging to their respective categories such as drivers and deliver boys have to deliver clients and products respectively and also ensure their safety, construction labors help in the construction of roads & flyovers, schools, colleges, office or any type of buildings, and tailor deals with the manufacturing of garments from cloth materials. You have to clearly draw the minimum eligibility criteria before starting your hiring process. The following criteria can be applied while searching for workers: the minimum number of years as experience, age, location, previous salary etc. You can quickly find driver, tailor or any hire worker in Delhi/NCR efficiently by following such guideline. Hiring process for any type of worker is a rigorous task for any employer. They have to match the skill set of the candidates with their requirement, after all nobody wants to do mistake while hiring new workers.
The improvement in technology has opened the floodgate of opportunities to employers and workers alike. Online job portals dealing with the hiring of unskilled workers have gain massive popularity. You can easily find resume of driver, tailor, machine operator or any unskilled worker by just visiting any of the free job site online like THEINCIRCLE

Thursday 10 March 2016

Regulation Simplifies Workers Compensation Law

Under NSW regulation, only a single claim can be made for a lump sum amout under workers compensation law. Nevertheless, a current statement by the NSW government has made an exception to this section, in light of the main changes made in 2012 to the compensation injured workers received.

As such, so many of workers may be permitted to additional payment for their injuries.

Changes to workers compensation law

The NSW government has announced recent changes to workers compensation law for claims made before June 19 2012, when material changes to lump sum compensation came into effect.

Outlined by the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation, the new regulation allows certain injured workers to make a second claim if their condition worsens. The changes in the regulation is in response to a recent NSW Supreme Court case, Cram Fluid Power v Green.
Back injuries can persist, minimising your ability to work.

Cram Fluid Power v Green

"The Government has acted to clarify the law, providing certainty for injured workers."

The appellant, Mr Green, received lump sum compensation on 14 December 2010 under section 66 of the 1987 Workers Compensation Act. However, his condition deteriorated resulting in spinal surgery.

As such, he requested further compensation. However, the Judges cited a clause in section 66 where the legislation states that the Act can only be used for a single claim when pursuing permanent impairment compensation for a work-related injury.



Between Mr Green's initial claim in 2010 and his second claim in 2013, key changes were made to injuries compensation law under the 2012 Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Act.

Despite the substantial changes, Mr Green was only able to make one claim for his injuries. In order to address the issues that arose from this case, the NSW government has released a statement detailing the modifications.

"The Government has acted to clarify the law, providing certainty for injured workers whose claims are affected by the Cram Fluid decision," says Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation Victor Dominello.

"Injured workers within this cohort will be able to make one further claim. There is no time limitation for making the claim or restriction on minimum increase in a claimant's level of permanent impairment."

Who will this impact?

The Department of Finance, Services and Innovation estimate there are 6,000 individuals who made claims before June 19 2012 who may be due further injury compensation under the new regulation.  Most compensation claim lawyers operate on a no win, no fee policy, where we will absorb the upfront costs and subtract them from the final settlement if your claim is successful. If your claim is rejected, you will incur no costs from the proceedings

That is why safety work wear is compulsory for workers

Safety work wear has become an inescapable part of life for numerous unsafe occupations, mostly in light of progressively strict health and safety at work laws. Wherever you turn there is a tradesman in a high visibility jacket, or a construction worker with safety boots and thick leather gloves. This has also given rise to a massive market for commercially positioned safety work wear thrives on the necessities of these businesses.
Safety work wear has grown in popularity over the last several decades as trade and employment become more and more government regulated. With a shift towards safety and caring for employees rather than maximizing profits, a huge demand has been created for protective clothing and garments in the work environment.
Safety wear has become an increasingly popular choice for many, and a necessity for employers working above the law in recent years. But it's not just a necessity in legal terms. It is also essential for the protection and prevention of injury to employees, and practically speaking, for the avoidance of legal action.

Personalized or branded staff work wear is becoming more common in the UK, and has benefits for both staff and the company. It's one of those very rare situations in life and especially business: a win-win situation.

WORKERS ARE FEELING SAFETY NOW:

Taking care of employees is a fundamental part of the responsibility of any company, not just from a moral and personal point of view but because it also makes good business sense too. A happy and safe employee is a good employee. By personalizing the work wear, staff are getting the protection they need and there are also some handy branding and marketing benefits for the company too.                                                                                   The work wear you provide staff needs to be tailored and chosen according to the safety needs of your business. This can be established by carrying out risk assessments and by talking to the staff on the front line. Depending on the needs of the staff, the work wear you choose can either be general or task specific.

EXAMINE:

Work wear also has the benefit of increasing visibility for both other staff and for members of the public and clients. A branded work wear vest or tunic will identify workers in key areas. The presence of a logo or branding can also help people to identify staff. This is very important for customers who may have queries and for anyone working in environments where heavy loads are moved around.

A uniformed work wear also increase the sense of rapport and team spirit amongst employees. There's a reason teams at the World Cup all wear the same kits, after all. Having the logo on the appropriate work wear also engenders a sense of pride and belonging amongst individual employees. Knowing that you are representing the company and that you have been valued as a member of staff is great for employee efficiency and morale.


There are, of course, obvious advantages for brand awareness, promotion and marketing by using work wear too. By having your logo or contact details on all work wear, you are more visible to the public, especially if employees are in the public domain during and after the work day.

CONCLUSION

So, as you can see, along with the obvious (and sometimes legally required) benefits of providing staff with work wear, there are a number of associated benefits for all parties. For a small investment in equipment, you can ensure your staff are treated well, you have complied with legislation and have the added benefit of some low cost marketing opportunities. There aren't many times in business when decisions seem to make themselves but this would appear to be one of them.

SAFETY HELMETS

Hard Hats and Safety Helmets Are Essential Protection

Literally no one is willing to argue against wearing hard hats and safety helmets in construction areas nowadays. It has become so engrained in us now that seeing someone walking around a construction site without the protective head gear on would create quite an outrage.

In this installment on safety helmets, we want to not necessarily rate the helmet itself, but rather this particular vendor who seems to carry just about any and every kind of protective head gear on the planet. In fact, and this is what caught our attention, they even go so far as to customize the gear to reflect your "true" personality!

For example, if you want a helmet with flames, to reflect your ‘hot' nature, they have it. Or, if your company wants a customized and prominent large company logo placed on the front or side they can do that as well.

HELMET RULE IN INDIA

Observing that it was disheartening to note that a number of precious lives are lost due to non-wearing of protective headgear, the Madras High Court today made it clear that wearing of helmets by two-wheeler riders is a must and documents including driving license must be impounded in case of failure to do so.

The judge said impounded documents would be released on showing the receipt of purchase of a helmet with ISI certificate.
    

The court directed the central government to go into the details of the design of the helmets to provide clear visibility for the wearer of helmet

Involvement of Community Workers to Make a Better Society

There are many community organisations to run a society smoothly. And a community organisation runs with the help of some community workers. Deprived of the direct participation of the community workers, it would not have been probable to achieve the huge tasks of keeping a community. The community workers hold many positions and work so to take the community on the way to prosperity. They deliver a wide range of services to public.

Meets The Needs of Community:

Community workers are the heart of a community. Most of the community workers are young in age and filled with vigour. They are occupied with innovative as well as creative ideas to meet new challenges ahead. They meet all the needs of individuals and community as well in priority basis.

Conducts Welfare Programmes:

Community workers run different welfare programmes for the betterment of the common people of the society including individuals to different groups. People are highly benefitted from such welfare programmes of specific issues like summer programmes, advisory and crisis response etc.

Emergency Backings:

The community workers provide instant and emergency support to people whenever needed and over any issues. People may consult with any issues at the community offices located at surrounding areas. The community workers offer a cordial mental and physical but professional support instantly as much possible to the common people.


Health Education:

Community workers are sometimes involved in teaching different health related teaching programmes to common people. The programmes are structured to make people aware about the common health issues through advice and guidance. 

Battle the Social Challenges:

Community workers are always engaged with fighting social challenges. Whenever they find any fault in the existing social norms, they start preventing it. They try to eliminate the prejudices and superstitions from common people of the society. At times they literally fight with the existing norms and behaviours to bring a positive change. 

Develops the Youth:

Community workers sometimes recruit young people to assist in different volunteering services. They engage and train the young population in diversified programmes like after-school programmes, and other extra-curricular activities. These programmes transform the youths to a higher intellectual level. Thus the community workers play a key role to develop the youths of a society.

Low Cost Service:

A smart payment is not a fact for the community workers. Most of the services offered by a community organisation are lower in cost. The community workers perform the tasks with sincerity against the marginal payment provided by the community people.

Works with Slim Budget:

The community organisations have to run with the support provided by the community people. Thus they cannot afford a big budget to make any programme. The community workers are to perform the task within the limited budget

Wednesday 9 March 2016

Failure to Sustain Proper LEV Systems to Guard Workers Can Be Expensive

If workers are likely to be showing to substances that could damage their health owners must abide by the UK's COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) regulations, which state that appropriate abstraction systems must be installed and frequently verified and maintained.

Among the events that could either use or produce harmful substances are welding, wood working, controlling chemicals in laboratories and the forms of substances that can cause problems range from dusts, such as sawdust, chemicals, fumes and gases, biological agents or fine mists.

Dependent on its variety of activity a business will install Local Exhaust Ventilation Systems (LEVs), which typically will include an removal hood, filter system, fans and ducting to take the substance away.

This may sound expensive but the consequences of failing to pay adequate attention to COSHH requirements can also be costly as this case study from the Health and Safety Executive illustrates.

A worker at a large company in Gloucestershire developed severe asthma after regularly inhaling rosin-based solder. A court found that the company had failed to install fume extraction equipment to remove fumes from the air or to substitute a rosin free solder and the company was fined £100,000 plus £30,000 costs.

Plainly an employer wants to be sure that any LEV equipment installed is both cost effective and working correctly to extract fumes properly. The regulations state that the equipment must be maintained in efficient working order so it continues to provide the necessary protection.

LEV testing must be carried out at least every 14 months, although most companies have the systems tested annually and the records of LEV testing must be kept for at least five years.


Also the company must keep information on the installed LEV system to confirm it provides adequate protection, for the lifetime of the equipment. This information is likely to include the intended or designed performance of your system such as hood type and position relative to the process, airflow and other measurements.

It will provide the person carrying out the tests with the basic data they need to ensure that the LEV system is performing to its specification and is adequate for the job it is intended to do.

Carrying out a thorough examination and test of LEV equipment needs specialist skills and most businesses engage someone with specialist knowledge, experience and skills. A good guide to their competence is whether they have undergone P601 training provided by the British Occupational Hygiene Society.

The training covers a basic understanding of the principles of the design of ventilation systems and the differences in performance between general and local exhaust systems.

After training an examiner should be able to carry out the correct measurements to check the system's effectiveness and identify when air sampling is required to determine adequate control.

If an existing system has not been commissioned properly they will also be able to carry out appropriate measurements to assess the effectiveness of such a system and document the results.

A specialist commercial cleaning service that offers testing as well as being able to advise on maintenance frequency as well as cleaning and to demonstrate a high level of its staff's COSHH and LEV training will ensure an employer is both complying with the law and that the equipment is running at maximum efficiency to keep workers safe and costs down

Techniques to Manage Pre-Existing Circumstances of Workers Compensation Claims

In workers compensation claims, a pre-existing circumstance refers to a medicinal condition the worker had prior to the occurrence of the work comp injury. The pre-existing circumstance can be injury related, for example, a prior spinal injury, or the pre-existing condition can be non-work related, for example, deteriorating disc disease.

The workers compensation laws of each state differ ominously in how each handles the augmentation of a pre-existing circumstance. The majority of states ruminate the augmentation of a pre-existing condition to be a part of the new work comp injury. Some states will accept the aggravation of a pre-existing condition that resulted from a prior injury but will not accept the aggravation of a pre-existing non-work related condition as a part of the work comp claim.

Aggravation of a pre-existing condition can be either a temporary condition or a permanent aggravation. It is important to the work comp adjuster to distinguish the difference, as the distinction can be critical to the outcome of the claim. The adjuster normally will allow for disability benefits for the period of time the employee is unable to work due to the aggravation of the pre-existing condition. The employee should not be compensated for the disability caused solely by the underlying condition.

A typical pre-existing condition claim is the aggravation of the lower back. The employee reports s/he injured his/her back. The medical provider determines the employee has strained back muscles and has degenerative disc disease. The employee is taken off work while the back strain resolves. The employee continues to complain about the injury beyond the time it should take to heal. The medical provider realizing the muscle strain should be resolved returns the employee to work with a 20 pound lifting restriction. The lifting restriction is to protect the employee from aggravating his/her degenerative disc disease, not to protect the employee from straining the back muscles again. As the restrictions arise out of the employee's pre-existing condition, they can be disputed.

However, the employee with the pre-existing condition is a greater risk for another injury. Requiring the employee to return to the same work as before without protecting the employee from his/her own pre-existing condition will often result in another aggravation of the pre-existing condition. Therefore, it is often better for the employer to honor the restrictions, even though the restrictions arise from the pre-existing condition, and not the work comp injury. If possible, you should consider re-assigning the employee to a different position where the potential for aggravation of the pre-existing condition is not as great.

Work comp claims involving the aggravation of a pre-existing condition need to be handled by experienced work comp adjusters who have in-depth knowledge of how these types of claims are handled within their state. The work comp adjuster should try some of these approaches to handling the claim involving the aggravation of the pre-existing condition:

1.     The adjuster and the employer should work together to arrange for a light duty return to work for the employee. Returning the employee to work on modified duty is always a good idea, but it becomes especially important in the claims involving the aggravation of a pre-existing condition. By returning the employee to light duty work, the employer reduces the likelihood of the medical provider placing the employee on permanent restrictions.

2.     The adjuster should investigate the claim thoroughly including interviewing the employee's supervisor and coworkers to ascertain if the employee was having problems with the pre-existing condition prior the on the job injury. This is especially true with the un-witnessed "accident." There may be information available to document that the work comp accident is not the cause of the employee's medical problems but the pre-existing condition is the cause of the medical problems.
3.     The adjuster should not hesitate to question the medical provider about to the pre-existing condition. If the adjuster ask the medical provider "what caused the degenerative disc disease?" the medical provider can only indicate it is a condition of aging, and was not caused by the on the job injury.
4.     The work comp adjuster should reject work restrictions on the employee based upon the employee's fear, or the medical provider's fear, that a new injury could occur. The adjuster should work with the employer on arranging for a job revision that will reduce the employee's chances of re-aggravation of the pre-existing condition.
5.     The adjuster should make sure the medical provider has a complete job description of the employee's position. (It will be much more accurate than the job description most employees will provide to the physician). The job description should include the employee's duties and the duration of each activity during a day. By providing the medical provider with this information, the physician can make a more accurate assessment of the employee's abilities to return to his former job, which will limit the extent of the job restrictions placed on the employee and his pre-existing condition.


As an employer, you need to protect your company from higher than normal workers' compensation cost brought on by the aggravation of pre-existing conditions. Pre-employment screening of job applicants is the most effective way of preventing work comp claims that arise out of the aggravation of a pre-existing condition. By not hiring people who will be more susceptible to injury, you can significantly reduce your exposure to injury claim involving the aggravation of a pre-existing condition.


However, employers must follow all EEOC/ADA guidelines to avoid discrimination charges.

The cost of background checks and physicals is minor compared to what a new employee with the pre-existing condition can do to your Experience Modification Factor.

As an employer you will never totally eliminate the injury claims involving the aggravation of a pre-existing condition. You can significantly reduce the number of injury claims involving pre-existing conditions by carefully screening the employees you do hire. Once the work comp claim occurs, you should work closely with your adjuster to minimize the impact of the pre-existing condition on the injury claim.

Learn more about workers comp cost containment at Manage your Workers Compensation Program Reduce your Workers Compensation Costs 20-50%. Sign up for LowerWC.com Workers Comp Newsletter.

Do not use this information without independent verification. All state laws vary. You should consult with your insurance broker or agent about workers comp issues

Matchless Gifts for Office Workers

With Christmas just round the corner, everybody is shopping online for gifts. If you're in an office, you identify that many people purchase gifts for coworkers. If you're the chief, you might feel obligated to purchase a gift for your office workers.

This is particularly true in small offices with 20 or less workers. Gifts are not obligatory, but a small gift can be just what that worker needs to feel respected and stop the job search.

There are many different kinds of gifts for office workers. If you're considering for a even gift that is impersonal, you can give someone a candy and chocolate basket or a gift certificate.

If you're looking for something more personal you could get one of your office workers a coffee cup that means something to them. Another more personal gift is anything that you could engrave. Engraved items are one of the most personal things you can give someone. Another great item for the personal touch is something that only the two of you have in common or an inside joke.

If you're office is the kind of place where people have fun and like to have fun, there are many different lists that have crazy gifts for office workers. To find these lists, try typing "crazy gifts for office workers" into Google and see what you find.



These crazy gifts for office workers include some flying planes and helicopters that you can fly over the cubicle walls. Also available are lightweight foam planes that have rechargeable batteries and can fly around the office.

Similar to the planes and helicopter gifts are the USB powered cars that drive around your desk and the USB powered mini lava lamp.

Need to file your business cards? How about a business card holder shaped like a filing cabinet with real opening doors and locks.

Want to know if someone is spying on you? How about a frequency detector that will light up LED lights if it detects a frequency nearby