Healthcare

Key Considerations for a Hotel Contemplating to House Healthcare Workers And/Or Transitioning into a Temporary Healthcare Facility

by Hector Medina in Coronavirus (COVID-19), Legal, Lodging. Posted April 2, 2020

Every hotel owner or manager is in a different situation, however the one common denominator for the hospitality & leisure industry, is the epic negative impact this epidemic has had on the travel industry, with less people flying for both business and leisure, which has resulted in the vast majority of hotels across top 25 ...

CARES Act Stimulus Will Permit Business Loans To Cover Payroll, Expand Unemployment

by Fisher Phillips in Coronavirus (COVID-19), Legal. Posted March 31, 2020

Businesses struggling with the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis received good news late last night when the Senate passed an unprecedented piece of legislation aimed at providing a massive stimulus to workplaces and employees alike. The centerpiece of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act would allow small- and medium-sized businesses ...

How to Minimize Jet Lag Symptoms

by Melissa Dudley in Travel. Posted July 29, 2017

Circadian rhythm disruption occurs when the rhythm set by one’s biological clock is misaligned with the solar day and night cycle of the environment. One of the most acute disruptions to circadian rhythm is rapid travel across time zones – a phenomenon known as jet lag. Jet lag not only impacts individual travelers but can also ...

Ebola and Terrorism Threaten African Tourism

by David Pratt in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted August 6, 2015

African tourism was severely impacted by the global recession that started around 2008. In 2013 we started seeing signs of a recovery, with the number of tourists increasing by over 5%, or three million, over 2012. This increase created a positive anticipation that 2014 would be the year in which normality returned to the tourism ...

N.fowleri Infections Update

by admin in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Lodging, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted July 31, 2015

Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba common to warm bodies of fresh water, including lakes and unchlorinated or poorly chlorinated swimming pools. This amoeba can infect the human nervous system and induce a lethal form of encephalitis when a victim insufflates contaminated water deep into the nasal cavities; while infection is relatively rare, only one percent ...

Hotel Pools: Another Potentially Hazardous Amenity

by admin in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Lodging, Safety & Security. Posted July 30, 2015

We wrote about the hazards inherent in hotel balconies last week, but that isn’t the only potentially troublesome amenity that hotel owners and operators must review. Hotel swimming pools seem innocuous enough to most guests and hotel staff, but as a deep body of water, they present a drowning hazard nonetheless. Hotel management should consider ...

Seasonal Influenza Increasing with Potential to Disrupt Health Services

by iJET International in Safety & Security. Posted July 29, 2015

Executive Summary Seasonal influenza has begun to increase in the Northern Hemisphere, where influenza season typically peaks between December and March. However, the current influenza season has increased more rapidly and earlier than usual in North America, while Europe has seen medium-to-low influenza activity so far. Seasonal influenza can be prevented by receiving the annual ...

Sick Leave for Restaurant Workers Necessary for Food Safety

by Fred Pritzker in Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Safety & Security. Posted January 30, 2015

The history of food safety, corporate irresponsibility, and workers’ rights is long and tortuous (as well as tortious). From the days of Upton Sinclair (rotten and diseased meat), unpasteurized and tuberculosis-laden milk, all the way through the present, the dangers of unsafe food have been compounded by improperly trained and poorly paid food workers. In ...

Overseas Business Travel Liability and the Duty of Care in Times of Ebola

by Don Dowling in Legal, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted December 5, 2014

As of late 2014, the United States faced no Ebola pandemic whatsoever. The odds of catching Ebola in an American workplace remained statistically zero. Only a handful of Ebola cases had made their way to the United States, and a few hospitals aside, every American workplace remained Ebola-free. Only two employees had caught Ebola on an American job site—both ...

Ebola Examined: The History of a Viral Scourge

by admin in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted June 30, 2014

In 2014, we’ve seen epidemics and pandemics portrayed extensively in film and theorized about in mass media. Despite the low fatality rates associated with real-life outbreaks like modern-day H1N1, pandemics are typically portrayed as diseases with a devastating fatality rate. Just when we’re ready to chalk up the exceptionally high body counts of the plagues in Contagion and 24 Days Later to ...