The last thing anyone wants is to be injured at work. There are many things to do, places to go and people to see when we are not at work.

Whatever you may think, workplace accidents can, and do happen every day. Our aim from this article is to help employers think about the workplace and safety to prevent accidents before any employee has to file a claim.

Offices

Are offices dangerous? Yes. Do they need to be dangerous? No, but all too often we take safety as someone else’s responsibility and fail to act to prevent accidents happening today. Another bad excuse is that safety is always a problem for tomorrow and not for today. If we act in a safe manner today then we will prevent accidents rather than encourage them.
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Why is it that West Virginia’s court system is so clogged up with Asbestos tort proceedings? The answer is very simple, claimants and their legal representatives are seeking to get the most money from the companies and individuals they claim against. That is reasonable, but the attorneys seek out Mississippi and West Virginia as two of the places where they can get the best results for their claim. West Virginia is seen as being very hard on the defendants of such cases.
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Is this a strange title? Yes. When you look at the number of times the media and the courts are looking at Asbestos related civil actions as “mass” then we realize where the problem lies.

There are mass torts. Civil trials where a number of people who are either suffering or have been diagnosed as potentially suffering from the results of asbestos inhalation take up a combined case against those who are “responsible” for their “suffering”. We can say that manufacturers of a product must be responsible for its careful use, but sometimes there is little proof of an individual’s contact with the particular manufacturer’s product. However, the cases go ahead and when one source of damages is exhausted then the same group of people reapply for the next manufacturer or user of asbestos they can sue.
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The heyday of Asbestos production was the 1970′s but it was years later that problems arose in the workers who were involved in the making and demolishing or homes, offices and factories with Asbestos material in them. We have no idea how long it will take for the results of the 9/11 tragedy to be manifest in people’s health. Everyone from the police and the firemen, to the office workers and those in the schools around the World Trade Center were covered with dust and debris. Unfortunately Osama bin Laden will not be around to be sued in approximately 20 years time. One of the big problems for the people who suffer from the various after effects of exposure to asbestos fibers is the length of time from the initial exposure to the cancer or pneumoconiosis appearing.
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In the 21st Century people in the Western World are far more sensitive to sexual innuendo and harassment than 30 or 40 years ago. Take a look at the early Bond movies and you will see what would be today construed as sexual harassment. The films where Pierce Brosnan played James Bond show Miss Moneypenny as being a far different character. The last two films don’t feature the relationship between Bond and Moneypenny at all.

All offices have a certain amount of banter and that is good, and only to be expected when there are friends working together. The problem comes when the banter becomes innuendo or overtly sexual. This can be the case when a woman comes into a workplace that previously had been an all-male preserve, or equally where a man comes into an all-female office or shop. The existing relationships and the banter that come out of them can easily be sexual until the rest of the employees are shown that they should consider what they are saying and why.
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