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IWIF Offers Free Hispanic Workers’ Safety Kit to Employers
(TOWSON, MD) –IWIF, Maryland's largest workers' compensation
insurance carrier, is sponsoring Maryland’s Workplace Safety
Week June 11 – 17, 2006 and offering Maryland employers in
the construction and landscaping trades a free workplace safety
kit. This year’s theme—Hispanic worker safety—will
focus on making workplace safety a top priority for Maryland business
owners and their non-English speaking Hispanic workers.
IWIF chose to focus on Hispanic worker safety after seeing a three-year
increase in construction-related workplace injuries and lost time
claims among this particular group of injured workers. In addition,
IWIF data also show policyholders are employing more Hispanic workers.
As a result, policyholders are facing unique challenges such as
effectively communicating safety messages to Spanish-speaking workers.
The kit, written in English and Spanish, will be distributed to
IWIF’s 2,500 largest policyholders and Maryland’s top
independent insurance agents. The free kit will also be available
for order in June on IWIF’s web site at www.iwif.com.
Maryland’s Workplace Safety Week was created by IWIF and
proclaimed official by the Maryland Governor’s office in
2001.
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