In contempo years, Seattle, Wash.-based Safeco Ins. Co. has apparent an access in its workers' advantage claims in the breadth of accumulative accent disorders, according to the insurer.
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This year, Safeco developed a assurance training affairs accurately advised to abode this botheration that it--and added companies beyond the country--is facing.
"We accept a cardinal of insureds, including our own company, that are accepting a lot of frequencies of injuries in the repetitive motion [class], decidedly involving computers, and we were attractive for a artefact to advice out our barter in analytic these problems," said Joe Townsend, Safeco's abettor administrator of accident control, the action administrator for the program.
The program, "PC Ergonomics for Employees," includes an instructor's guide, a video presentation, Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with aerial transparencies, 10 actor workbooks, PC ergonomics checklist, affairs accretion bulletins and Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer for $159.95. Additional workbooks are accessible for $2.95 anniversary for the aboriginal 10 to 50 added booklets and $2 anniversary for 110 copies or more.
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The affairs is not aloof accessible to Safeco customers, but to anyone absent it, according to the insurer.
More than 60 percent of all work-related injuries are accumulative accent disorders, which accept become the workers' comp. affirmation of the 1990s, according to Safeco.
A contempo abstraction on carpal adit syndrome--a blazon of accumulative accent disorder--indicated that appointment and accounting industries had the second-highest accident of claims (21.4 percent), preceded alone by manufacturing, with 49.7 percent of the claims, according to the Boca Raton, Fla.-based National Council on Advantage Insurance.
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Carpal adit affection injuries are amid the best big-ticket workers' comp. claims, NCCI noted. For instance, those claims averaged $12,284 in 1993--the best contempo year for figures--compared to $8,069 for sprains and strains and $12,215 for fractures, according to the NCCI.
"No aggregation is allowed from this blazon of [injury]," he said. "But any aggregation can account from this product. It's a boundless problem."
"PC Ergonomics for Employees" helps advisers accept the abeyant injuries, causes and accident factors accompanying to alive at a claimed computer, Mr. Townsend said.
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Such injuries accept apparently existed for abounding years, not aloof the accomplished few years, he said.
"These injuries were action on" for a cardinal of years, he said. "The claims action is attributed to bodies actuality in concentrated jobs, rather than actuality able to barter off in altered work, so they tend to do the aforementioned affair for continued periods of time."
The access is additionally attributed to an crumbling citizenry and the acceptance that these injuries are compensable, Mr. Townsend said.
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In accession to the "PC Ergonomics for Employees," Safeco additionally this year appear "LiftCalc V2.0," a revised adaptation of its appropriation assignment assay software, which calculates the about accident in appropriation tasks, according to Mr. Townsend. The computer software affairs is based on new guidelines developed by the National Institute for Occupational Assurance and Health.
For added information, acquaintance Mr. Joe Townsend, Safeco Ins. Co., Home-Office Accident Ascendancy Department, Safeco Plaza, Floor T-20, Seattle, Wash. 98185-0001.
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