Stress is a Part of Life that Everyone Experiences Short-term stress can happen anywhere at any time. You are driving on the highway in the middle lane, and someone comes speeding up on your left side and passes you. Suddenly, that car does a nearly 45-degree...
Signing Up for Death Benefits When You Start Work Whenever you start a job with a new Arizona employer, look for the paperwork where you can fill out who your dependents are, in case you pass away from a work-related injury. Once you do that, your...
Can I Leave the State While on Workers’ Compensation? Leaving Arizona for a Family Emergency If you are on workers’ compensation after being injured on the job, you could leave Arizona if an out-of-state family member suddenly became ill and is expected to pass away. However, if...
Sustaining an Injury and Diagnosis If you are injured in a workplace accident, you must fill out a Worker's compensation injury claim at once. You can do this electronically online at azica.gov here or you can print the form off from your printer and send it...
Overview of Working from Home Many people have worked from home over the last few years. For those office workers who could access their company’s documents in the company’s cloud service, this became a big bonus as work could be completed even when not in the...
Filing Your Claim After a Workplace Injury If you suffer an injury while working on the job, notify your manager at once. Your manager may want to fill out a form for the employer right away unless you are going to the hospital. Even though your...
Understanding What Bullying Is There is always that one person that rubs you the wrong way. It is especially difficult when that person is your boss or your manager and is the one to give you orders about what to do that day on the job....
Working at Your Desk Often Enough Can Kill You Nobody ever talks about those employees who work long hours at their desks. If you sit for long periods of time, your muscles begin to shrink, especially if you were toned up before starting this job. Unless...
Workplace Accidents and Constant Severe Pain Opioid pain medication misuse has been covered in the news often over the past 10 years. Doctors have worked to get their patients off opioid prescriptions, but it requires a slow process of weaning off these medicines and finding another...
News History of Assaults on Arizona Healthcare Professionals A news article on State of Reform online, posted February 24, 2020, showed that there was an increase in assaults on nurses at hospitals, doctor offices, and other medical places of work. In February 2020, the pandemic had...
