It is as predictable as time itself. A state fund providing workers’ compensation insurance accumulates a significant cash surplus. Then politicians who see the money as a free resource to solve problems they are incapable of addressing try to take it. It happened recently in Colorado, although Pinnacol Assurance, the state fund there, successfully repelled…
Let's Face It, the Lion Had to Die
A very tragic tale out of California this morning tells us an animal park intern with only a few weeks on the job was killed yesterday by a lion in her care. 24 year old Dianna Hanson had entered the cage of the male African Lion, Cous Cous, by herself when she was badly mauled…
Opioid Paper Training for the IAIABC
A nervous and trepidatious world eagerly awaits the pending release of the comprehensive paper on opioid use from the Executive Committee (EC) of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC). While we wait, I thought I would make a few suggestions to “ease the tension” and make the release the middling success…