Teresa Long

Workplace violence is a very real issue in this country, but not something every employer can prevent. Teresa Long of the Institute of WorkComp Professionals shows how putting a plan in place can help employers create a safer environment for employees and minimize potential workers? compensation risks.

Wellness programs combat obesity-related diabetes in the workplace, but employers often tip-toe around them in fear of discriminating against overweight people. Teresa Long of the Institute of WorkComp Professionals shares some ways to be proactive and reduce the risk to the company and employees.

Occupational disease costs employers a bundle in compensation benefits, loss of production, and paperwork nightmare. Yet for all the ways it impacts the system, some employers still don’t fully understand what it is, how it differs from a standard claim, or how it affects an employer. Teresa Long of the Institute of WorkComp Professionals looks at the ways to avoid having occupational diseases drive up your costs.

Teresa A. Long of the Institute of WorkComp Professionals explains why what you don?t know CAN hurt you.

Teresa Long of the Institute of WorkComp Professionals explains how the proliferation of personal technology devices ? predominantly cell phones, Blackberrys and iPods ? now infiltrate work life as well as leisure time and are impacting job safety, a not-so-good vibration being felt, literally, from coast to coast.