Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features the National Safety Council’s announcement that its MSD Solutions Lab, recognizing the outsized impact that musculoskeletal disorders have on small businesses, recently hosted its first first-ever MSD Pledge: Small Business Summit.
The NSC noted that MSDs are the leading cause of worker disability, involuntary retirement and limitations to gainful employment, and the Summit aimed to address the unique challenges such pervasive, complex injuries pose to small businesses, while giving safety leaders and entrepreneurs the opportunity to learn more about creative, attainable MSD solutions. A the summit the NSC unveiled the ‘Small Business Guide for MSDs,’ a manual that offers proven, turnkey MSD solutions to help small business owners save time and money while keeping their workers safe.