- Employee injuries on the job may implicate Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA, or, in Indiana, IOSHA) administrative investigation and safety order processes. OSHA, or IOSHA, also is charged with safety and health regulatory enforcement, which it performs via inspections, to ensure safety standards compliance. Violation of a safety standard may result in monetary fines, and, in certain circumstances, criminal sanctions.
- Employees have rights to treatment and monetary compensation for lost time (after a brief waiting period) as well as for permanent impairments, under workers' compensation. Failure to comply with time limits, sometimes called a statute of limitations, may have adverse ramifications to employers defending against charges and lawsuits, or those asserting employee rights, irrespective of the merits, or lack thereof, of a claim.
- Employers may be obliged to provide reasonable accommodations, for employees who are able to perform essential functions of the job, and be held liable for injuries resulting from a failure to do so, under the ADA. Providing so-called “light duty” assignments should be performed in light of ADA ramifications.
- Failure to comply with time limits , sometimes called a statute of limitations, may have adverse ramifications to employers defending against charges and lawsuits, or those asserting employee rights, irrespective of the merits, or lack thereof, of a claim.
- These websites have useful information concerning the above:
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