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How to Accommodate Disabled Employees
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which was created to recognize the contributions and skills of American employees with disabilities. For many small to midsize businesses, having an employee suddenly become disabled (because of an accident or an illness) can be somewhat daunting if it’s a new experience for the employer. These tips will help you accommodate disabled employees and welcome them back to work.

Keep Company and Employee Information Safe
Right now, someone within your company may be accessing confidential corporate information either dishonestly or by accident. In the news, you read about well-known companies suffering the loss of sensitive corporate information at the hands of employees. HR departments often hold the key to valuable corporate and employee information, so the risk of data breaches presents unique challenges.

Laughing Your Way to Organizational Health
Workplace wellness is a serious issue. With stress-related-illness and burnout becoming household words, you are increasingly looking for ways to keep your workforce happy, healthy and productive. David Granirer's humor insights tell you how.

Form a Green Team to Improve Your Work Environment
To raise employee awareness of opportunities to save energy and contribute to a healthy work environment, form a green team at work. While debate exists about recycling and other aspects of environmentalism, a green team is motivational for employees who want to make a difference in their work environment.

Corporate Data Security Challenges
Identity theft resulting from a corporate data breach is big news. The extensive media coverage and damage to the organizations and brands involved in recent data security breaches has brought identity theft detection and prevention to the forefront of corporate America's concerns.

Develop a Drug-free Workplace
In a drug-free workplace, the employer has taken steps and initiated policies to ensure that employees, vendors, and customers are not taking or using alcohol or drugs, selling drugs, or affected by the after effects of indulging in alcohol or drugs outside of the workplace during non-work time. Additionally, the goal of a drug free workplace program is to encourage an employee with a substance abuse problem to seek treatment, attain recovery and return to work.

Workplace Violence: It Can Happen Here
A very real, clear and present danger lurks just beyond the consciousness of most people who work together eight to ten hours a day, five to seven days a week. It is the potential for violent actions to occur in your workplace. Here's workplace violence examined.

Celebrate Life: Workplace Remembrance of September 11
People in workplaces around the world will remember September 11 as a day of tragedy, sorrow, remembrance, honor, and celebration. Here are ideas for commemorating and celebrating events of the tragedy.

Profit from Life’s Losses: Find Significance
Sometimes life throws us unexpected curve balls. When you get yours - and we all will at one time or another - how you choose to respond to it will set the course for the rest of your life. John Chappelear, author of "The Daily Six" says, "When I received my 'Gift of Desperation' I began to notice, FINALLY, something was missing in my life. It wasn’t success that was missing. It was significance." Upon this realization, he set upon a path to find significance - and he found it. Learn more.

When Tragedy Strikes: Eleven Tips for Your Workplace Response
A national tragedy or a personal tragedy has a huge impact at work. And, workplaces can help people successfully weather the tragedy. They can ease the passage people experience during tragedy. They can help people deal with the helplessness and grief they experience during tragedy. They can provide a support system to help prop people up. Find our more about the workplace response to tragedy.

Ten Tips for the Stay-at-Home Parent: Overcome Your Employment Gap
Concerned about getting back in the workforce after a gap in your employment? You should be. The job market appears to have qualified candidates for most positions. Employers hate to be risky. How will your resume as a stay at home parent, with a ten year employment gap, stack up against those of people who have been racking up career achievements and accomplishments for the same ten years?

Promote Your Personal Growth and Motivation
Are you feeling blah about your life? Does boredom make you unmotivated and unexcited? Are you having a mid-life crisis? You can promote your personal growth and motivation to overcome this inertia. Here are ideas and tools that will help you explore personal growth, set new goals, choose motivation and get your life and work back on a course that excites, motivates and fills your life with joy.

I Just Lost My Job: How Am I Going To Tell My Kids?
One of the responsibilities of a human resources professional is to let employees know that their job has been eliminated. Job loss and the following job search are painful and upsetting for most people. Additionally, parents must tell family members about the job loss and mitigate their fears about the family, the income and the job search. Here are ten tips.

Fear During War
The enemies of America and the free world depend upon our fear for their success. Fear is normal during war. You can, however, mitigate the impact of fear on both the individual and the workplace if you implement these actions and ideas.

On the Alert for Potential Workplace Violence?
Management Guide, John Reh, emphasizes ways to prevent workplace violence. Take a look at this excellent resource.

Dealing with Workplace Violence: A Guide for Agency Planners
This booklet must be downloaded, however, it is an excellent guide to preventing and addressing workplace violence.

Defuse Impending Violence
Treat the individual with dignity and respect tops the list of ways to defuse potential violent behavior at work. Find out more!

Employers Help Employees' Kids Stay Drug Free
When children use illicit drugs, parents often suffer decreased morale and productivity in their workplaces. This Web site was developed to help alleviate these problems. Take a look to see what employers can do to help parents.

Federal OSHA Guidelines
Downloadable guidelines to many of the Federal publications related to the work of the Occupational Safety & Health Administration in the U.S. Department of Labor. These include an employee’s rights following a Federal inspection at a workplace.

Safety - Positive Reinforcement
Promoting Workplace Safety with Positive Reinforcement, by Paul D. Champagne and R. Bruce McAfee emphasizes positive reinforcement and extrinsic rewards to encourage safe work practices, in addition to other traditional methods.

Shaping a Safety Culture
Shaping a Safety Culture, by Andrew D. ShamRao, focuses on three essential elements in creating a safe work environment: the basic compliance system, the involvement of workers in safety awareness and responsibility, and unsafe practices prevention.

Workplace Security Best Practices
The South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, in partnership with a panel of safety and security experts from the state's leading industries, has developed a guide containing best practices for workplace security. This web page contains the best practices and a list of resources/references for employers.

Workplace Violence: An Employer's Guide
An excellent article by Steve Kaufer and Jurg Mattman, this piece deals with ways to plan for workplace violence before it happens. It is an excellent step by step guide to a forward thinking planning process and to addressing needs of employees before they erupt violently.