One of the things that I have done is gone to Wordpress for my new website.  The new website is www.workplacesafetyforyouonline.com which is a long web address but you know, there is someone out there with www.workplacesafety.com that bought it, doesn't use it, and wants to sell it.

Here is my latest entry for the safety blog.

Are your workers compensation insurance costs to high?

Workers Compensation Insurance is specifically based upon your work classification and your history of safety.

Workplace safety programs directly affect a company’s safety experience which in turn affects it’s experience  modification, which in turn helps determine workers compensation insurance costs.
The workers compensation experience modification (experience mod) process  helps insurance companies charge your company for your insurance program based upon your historical loss experience more.....

So this has been one of those watershed years, where a lot changes.  My father  passed away in June at the age of 73.  He was a good man and I miss him.  I retired from the National Guard after 27 years of varying degrees of uniformed service.  Most recently my grandmother passed away at the age of 92 after living for several years with dementia in a nursing home.    There has been a fair amount of stress in the last several months, some of it self imposed some of it just imposed.