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Understanding Workers’ Compensation:
Managing Workplace Injuries and Lowering Costs now available
Leading expert in the field of workplace injury management, John W. Valente
of Rutland, Vt., has released his first tutorial on workers’ compensation
– an easy-to-use guide aimed at every business owner, company manager
and human resource professional. Understanding
Workers’ Compensation: Managing Workplace Injuries and Lowering
Costs (Trafford, $29.95) is a must-have for any company, from the
mom-and-pop store to a manufacturer to a billion-dollar corporation.
Valente, a highly acclaimed, charismatic presenter, regularly lectures
nationwide on workers’ compensation issues. Using his humor and
an engaging style, Valente has taken the highlights of his popular seminars
and incorporated them into this uncomplicated tutorial full of practical,
useful tools, including talking points and checklists. By the end of Understanding
Workers’ Compensation: Managing Workplace Injuries and Lowering
Costs, business owners will know how to make their workplace safer
(and, in turn, reduce workers’ compensation insurance premiums),
and return injured workers to work as quickly and safely as possible.
In Understanding Workers' Compensation: Managing
Workplace Injuries and Lowering Costs, Valente explains the basics
of workers’ compensation and outlines strategies for taking aggravation
out of the oftentimes complicated process. While not providing legal advice,
Valente reviews the cost of workers’ compensation, the anatomy of
a claim, litigation’s effect on the workplace, workplace safety
concerns, investigation of workplace accidents and returning an injured
worker to work. Understanding Workers’ Compensation:
Managing Workplace Injuries and Lowering Costs gives valuable insight
into the world of workplace injuries – a world that many enter into
but few attempt to understand. Valente’s book makes it easy by providing
the tools necessary to begin the discussion of how to manage workplace
injuries.
With a number of case studies, countless listings of corporate best practices
and tools for managers to use, Understanding Workers’
Compensation: Managing Workplace Injuries and Lowering Costs will
become every company’s bible for workplace safety. The best supervisors
and managers will always have this book at their fingertips.
Understanding Workers’ Compensation: Managing
Workplace Injuries and Lowering Costs can be ordered through Trafford
Publishing at Trafford.com, or by calling (888) 232-4444. Discounts are
available for bulk orders. The book also may be ordered through Amazon.com
and is available to order at local booksellers.
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