Compliance and Safety

Audio Click ‘n Train:Violence in the Workplace – How to Prevent and Defuse for Employees

One-sixth of violent crimes occur in the workplace, and there are over 1.5 million incidents of workplace violence a year across the United States. Your employees need to be aware of this important issue.This new plug-and-play professional-quality audio presentation [...]

Every 5 seconds a worker is injured or becomes ill on the job. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that translates to 18,000 injuries a day, over 125,000 injuries a week, and upwards of 6 million injuries a year. Economic costs of workplace accidents are also high—over $100 billion annually nationwide.Safety should be [...]

Audio Click ‘n Train: COBRA and HIPAA – What Supervisors Need to Know Complying with benefits laws has never been easy, and COBRA is one of the most complex regulations that organizations have ever had to implement. Although there are no laws that mandate that employers must provide healthcare coverage for their employees, there are an [...]

Audio Click ‘n Train: FMLA – What Supervisors Need to Know

Frontline responsibility for compliance with FMLA often rests with supervisors and managers. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a complicated law that requires covered employers to provide job-protected leave to eligible employees for certain medical or family needs.This new plug-and-play professional-quality [...]

DID YOU KNOW? 31 STATES HAVE HAD CHANGES IN THEIR LABOR LAW POSTERS IN 2007 Thirty-one states will have had significant changes in their labor law posters by the end of 2007. That’s in addition to the federal minimum wage increase in July which affected every state. Fourteen states had minimum wage increases this year that are already [...]

One of the ‘next big things’ in the training industry is the use of ‘assessment tools’ to determine the extent of an employee’s knowledge about a particular topic, then customize their training to address only the things they don’t know. This has obvious advantages for employers, since it minimizes the amount of time that an [...]

Digital 2000 has produced one of the widest libraries for construction safety covering dozens of topics.C001E HAZARDOUS ENERGY SOURCE – LOCKOUT/TAGOUT(English or Spanish)(10 min.) VHS $99.95 | DVD $135.00Mandatory training for both “affected” and “authorized” personnel. Explains what lockout-tagout is and how to control potential accidents from machines and equipment that may be started accidentally [...]

Maryland has issued a revised workers’ compensation notice that includes a warning about withholding or giving false information about an employee’s work-related activity or return to work.The mandatory workplace notice now states that withholding or giving false information about a workers’ compensation claim could prevent an employee from receiving benefits and may lead to fines, [...]

Vermont has issued a revised workplace notice that includes an increase in the state’s minimum wage from $7.53 per hour to $7.68 per hour effective Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2008.The mandatory notice issued by the Vermont Department of Labor also includes a Jan. 1 increase in the minimum wage rate for tipped employees from [...]

New Written Materials PDF Print E-mail Digital 2000 has now made it easier for our customers to get written materials for our training videos. For a list of new written materials click the link below. 5 KEYS TO SAFE DRIVING 10021AE ACCIDENT CAUSES & [...]