Technology is helping to transform medical services, but employers and providers need to focus more on socioeconomic factors.

We highlighted these sessions for today’s NWCDC attendees.

Tested solutions for the toughest challenges.

Teddy Award winners will be honored on Thursday at “Steal These Ideas! Award-Winning Employers Share Their Successes,” beginning at 8:30 a.m.

The Theodore Roosevelt Workers’ Compensation and Disability Management Award honors exceptional programs that innovate to produce the best results.

This year’s Teddy Award winners focused on building programs that put employees first and get injured workers back on the job quickly.  

The American Airlines and U.S. Airways merger meant integrating workers’ compensation programs for a massive workforce. The results are stellar. 

From celebrating safety success to aggressively rooting out fraud and abuse, Stater Bros. Markets is making workers’ comp risk management gains on multiple fronts.

In three years, the Columbus Consolidated Government was able to substantially reduce workers’ compensation claims costs, revamp return-to-work and enhance safety training. 

Barnabas Health wins a Teddy Award for pushing one hospital’s success in workers’ comp systemwide. 

Two-time Teddy Award winner Red River Army Depot drives year-over-year results, serving as a model for other installations throughout the Army.

The recently reappointed director of NIOSH discusses the changing nature of the workforce and how the agency is responding.

As violence in health care settings increases, awareness and de-escalation training for workers can go a long way toward preventing crises.  

No industry is immune from workplace violence, and the onus is on employers to make work sites as safe as possible.

Will Gaines’ unique career path gave him a deeply personal perspective on managing health and safety in the workplace.

Differing state laws allowing some form of marijuana use have made the crafting of corporate drug-free policies a real buzzkill.

An ergonomics plan focused on worker well-being as well as performance is good for workers and good for the bottom line.

Opting out of a state’s exclusive remedy can leave a company vulnerable to large losses.

Who needs the Scaffold Law? Maybe construction workers should just stop working instead.

Engaged workers are less likely to be injured on the job and more likely to return to work if they do suffer an injury.