Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features the National Safety Council’s call for employers to develop workplace policies around the use of opioids after its review of research and court cases showing their negative impacts on employee safety and worker’s compensation costs.
The NSC noted findings that workers who use opioid painkillers for more than a week to treat on-the-job injuries have double the risk of being disabled one year later, and that average lost time worker’s comp claims involving opioid painkillers can cost as much as 900% more than those for workers who do not take opioids. The NSC also issued a that provides an overview of recent court cases involving overdoses, and includes strategies to help assist in protecting injured workers.
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