The Occupational Safety & Health Administration offers free and confidential advice to small and medium-sized businesses. These consultations are able to help small businesses determine where they could benefit from additional facility safety measures and associate safety training. While optimizing facility safety can be done by putting additional safety materials in place, the best way …
SHRM Releases Initial Findings from State of Employee Benefits in the Workplace Survey
This month, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) offered some interesting insight into the trends affecting employee benefits, as part of its State of Employee Benefits in the Workplace Survey. Data was gathered at the end of 2012 from hundreds of HR practitioners to explore the impact that health care costs and the Affordable …
Are Your Employees Exempt, and Do You Know the Difference?
As an employer, you are responsible for ensuring your compliance with all federal and state regulations. Accurate employee records are crucial and it is important that you know how to classify employees that work for your business. There is a distinct difference between exempt and non-exempt employees. Knowing the difference and properly classifying them will …
Maintaining a Healthy Workforce During the 2013 Flu Season
As the cold of winter blows through many regions, the well-being of employees is on the minds of many human resource practitioners. This month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) advised that the flu season has been unusually active with some 22,048 cases of influenza reported from September to the end of 2012. That’s compared …
5 Ways to Prepare for Change Management During Layoffs
Though a tough decision, some organizations will be faced with the need to reduce their workforce when the economy isn’t doing well this coming year. For small and mid-sized companies, this can be even more complicated since most of these organizations have a tight structure. The human resource manager’s job is to handle these layoffs …
Online Safety Training: Tess C. Taylor quoted in SHRM's January 2013 HR Magazine
The trend towards online safety training in the workplace is on the rise, according to a recent article published in the January 2013 edition of the Society for Human Resources Management HR Magazine. The article Putting Safety Training Online, by Dave Zielinski, sheds light on a new way of providing job relevant safety training using …