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Employers all around the world are more and more conscious of the fact that they need to provide a safe working environment for their employees. There’s no more put up and shut up with the conditions that we all go to work in.

Regulations from different companies and governments across the globe are putting the health of the workers as their top priority in worker’s rights laws. This is because every business needs to keep their employees at work as consistently as possible.

More workers working means more profit and more stability for your business. However, accidents do still happen and when they do various procedures need to happen in order for the employer to see through their obligations to this effect.

Hence why medical businesses that investigate such accidents to find out what happened and see to the injuries of the worker are very popular. If you wanted to start this kind of business , what are the components you need to create?

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Meeting the patient on arrival

One of the services you need to provide is meeting the injured staff member at the hospital. Of course, an ambulance could be called to a manufacturing plant, research, and development facility, an office or perhaps a construction site. However, you must devise a plan with the employer that agrees upon your business sending out an employee to go and meet the patient at the hospital.

This way you get to see the injuries firsthand and speak with your client’s employee. Remember that your client is the business owner but you also represent the employee who is harmed, to protect their rights . It’s all about playing fair, which is why you should see the extent of the pain and wounds on arrival at the hospital or as soon as you can.

Once your employee is at the hospital, they need to speak with the doctor and or surgeons to see what is going on. Collect photographs of the injuries, as well as x-rays. You should also collect the medical reports that will detail the wounds to sustain and what the technical terms for such injuries are.

A blunt force trauma injury to the chest might cause cardiac arrest. So you need both pictures and a detailed report from the healthcare professionals at the hospital to get the full picture. This is a premium service that many healthcare businesses do not provide as they solely rely on the word of mouth from the employee and their interpretation of the medical report.

Handling multiple injured

Particularly on construction sites, you can find incidents of multiple injured in one accident. This could be when three employees were hauling a support beam up the side of a house or office building.

The beam might have felled and injured all three at the same time but given them all different injuries to each other. So this is a large and serious incident where more than one employee has been hurt badly, but how can you honestly identify each party involved?

The employer needs proof that all three were there at the time and they were injured due to this specific incident. This is because unfortunately there have been instances where employees who were already injured from their something that happened in their personal life, but still claimed to have been hurt at work and sued the employer. So proper discretion and attention to injury incidents need to be given.

Create a service which actually goes to the scene of the accident and collect evidence to help build the case for your client and or worker. Using a dna isolation kit, you can take samples of blood from the scene and have them all identified to the individuals that we hurt.

With each employee’s blood sample now collected you have a clear piece of evidence that they were present at the time and were in fact involved in the incident. Their injuries cannot be deemed to be caused by something else. This protects the workers above all else and gives your investigation much credibility.

The interview process

Any employer that has unsafe working conditions will more than likely try to get out of hot water when the spotlight is shining on their practices and work environment. It’s your job to interview the employees that have been injured and get a sense of what kind of pain and suffering they are going through.

Devise some questions that are going to cover the general health of the patient and then also the specific injuries they have sustained. For example, you can ask about their general health when it comes to headaches, migraines, cold and fever. You get an overall sense of how the employee is feeling right now.

The specific questions should be more linked to their mental health, their physical pain and if they have sustained any injuries that will give them chronic pain. Maybe an employee broke his leg and you should ask about the pain of the fracture, whether they can put weight on their leg like normal again or if there are any abnormal muscle and bone pain.

Many people will feel down and they could be depressed because they are in pain, have lost the motion of their own limbs and cannot work. Give the employee a mental health checkup as well. This, of course, requires you to have your own psychologist in your offices where the employee can come. Alternatively, your employee can go and meet the worker in their own home as a call out request.

Medical businesses that are catering to workers in the modern world, work closely with multiple different entities. These processes and services offer both your professional client and their employees a clearcut direction in investigating at-work accidents.

Firstly you’re going to the scene of the incident and collecting DNA data to prove all those involved were actually involved. Then you’re also meeting the injured parties at the hospital to get a full report on their health. And you’re also finding your way to the truth by interviewing the employee.

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Starting your own business is a long-held pipe dream for many people. But in order to get your start, you’re going to need more than just luck, talent and determination – you also need cash.

Even for Internet-based companies with relatively small overheads other than a website and some cheap Wifi , a little cash cushion is necessary to get the idea off the ground or to support yourself and the business before you hit profitability.

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Saving For Entrepreneurs

Of course, you will probably need to find other sources as well – crowdsourcing, angel investors or a bank loan are all popular routes – but having the tenacity to save and invest some of your own money makes things a lot easier, and even demonstrates to potential financiers that you have the work ethic and drive to make your business happen.

Learning how to consistently save is a matter of discipline and habit. It can feel hard at first, but you have to retain a sense of perspective – is a year or so of hardship a good trade-off for realizing your dream, having the freedom to work for yourself and building something for your future? If so, then read on…

Go Card Free

Spending on little extras these days is ridiculously easy thanks to contactless and phone payments. You can go for months without ever touching cash, and this can be dangerous if you’re the sort of person who spontaneously splurges on those irresistible must-haves – that muffin with your morning coffee, or those must-have new boots.

It doesn’t feel tangible simply waving your phone or tapping your card, and for that reason, it’s easy to overspend. Unplanned purchases are generally unnecessary one’s top, especially if you suffer from poor impulse control.

Make it easy on yourself by taking out a cash allowance each week and leaving your cards at home. It’s much harder to overspend, as the act of getting that cash out of your purse itself can make it all seem real, and give you a moment of vital cooling off time to reconsider if your really need what you’re about to buy.

Cook From Scratch

The number one overspending category for most people? It’s eating out. Not just the restaurant dinners but the mid-week takeaways, pre-packaged lunches and daily coffees – they seem small at the time but they quickly mount up.

Get into the habit of preparing food from scratch at home and using Tupperware containers to take lunch and snacks with you. Not only is it much healthier without all the added sugar, salt and chemicals in most ready meals, but it can save you a fortune.

Identify your worst food purchasing habit and plan ahead to avoid it. 3 pm sugar slump? Pack a paleo bar and an apple and have a snack with you so you don’t raid the vending machines.

Got home late and don’t want to cook? Set aside an hour or so on a Sunday to batch cook, portion up, and freeze some dinners so you always have something tasty and home cooked to pull out and heat up.

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There’s no way to sugar coat this so I’ll just say it – anyone who runs their own business just has to get organised. I understand you might rather concentrate your energy on future planning’ or operations, but it really is worth the time and investment.

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So I thought I’d share tips on how to feel more in control and together when it comes to those administrative tasks you might rather delay. And, if you take these on board, it could also mean you free up important time and resources for things you really want to concentrate on.

Manage your desk space and storage

It might sound straightforward but before you get started, a great tip is to make your physical space neat, clear and functional. This means you can work in the most effective way possible and you, literally, don’t feel that things are getting on top of you.

A place for everything and everything in its place

To start with, make sure everything has its own place, even if that place is in a pile of papers on your desk. If you understand your own system that’s a great starting point – just try to keep at least part of your desk clear.

Plan your social media campaigns in advance

If you’re running a social media marketing campaign on a budget, you need to minimize the time you spend putting information online. Instead of publishing posts every few hours, which is really time-consuming, try to schedule things well ahead of time.

There are lots of tools out there to help you, including Hootsuite , and this simple organizational technique will make you much more productive.

Don’t drown under paperwork

If you feel like you’re drowning under reams of paperwork as an entrepreneur, you’re not alone at all – trust me. In a recent study, small business owners reported that they spend 1-3 hours every day working day on administrative tasks. And nearly half of the people who responded felt like they had to work out of hours to get everything done.

Paperwork may be an unavoidable part of running a business, but a well-organized system can save you a lot of hassle, especially if you need to find something fast.

Here are our top tips for organizing your paperwork, so you can lay hands on any document you want when you need to:

Identify what paperwork you need to keep

The key items you’ll need to keep to relate financial transactions as it’s really important to keep on top of your taxes. These include:

◊ Invoices

◊ Bank Statements

◊ Bills

◊ Expense receipts

◊ Tax documents

If you held all of those documents in paper format it would take up a lot of space, we understand, so definitely consider digitizing them, it’s much more efficient.

Scan your documents and store them securely

All you need to do is invest in an inexpensive scanner and then store your documents somewhere securely. It’s a good idea to keep at least one copy of everything in secure offsite storage, for example on a cloud storage service like Google Drive.

Keep your filing straightforward and simple

If you’re just starting out, you don’t want to make this too complicated – the key thing is that you understand your system and it works. Just start out by using the key items we’ve listed above for each year – then add appropriate subfolders: for example invoice numbers, months, etc.

Then try to keep on top of your filing at least once a week – it’ll pay off in spades and free up more of your time in the long run. And why not give all your invoices a unique reference number while you’re doing it – it’s tax filing requirement so why not do it anyway? Paperwork will then be easier to find and you’ll be getting ahead of the situation, which is always great.

Consider investing in accounting software

If you’ve thought about this before but never quite got round to it, now could be a great time to invest in accounting software .

Even if you’re not affected by any tax changes where you live right now, it’s worth looking into how it could help in future. After all, the main thing we all want to focus on is our business, isn’t it, not lots of complicated tax processes.

How can accounting software help?

Investing in reliable online business tools benefits your company in a whole range of ways, including:

◊ It makes data entry simpler and more efficient – you only need to add data once and it streamlines systems, making processes more efficient.

◊It can speed up other processes and help reduce delays, for example between sales and invoicing.

◊You’ll have the facility to generate reports and analysis easily as this is all automated – eg for profit and loss, debtors and creditors, customer accounts, inventory counts, sales, forecasting, etc

◊Important tasks like calculating pay, producing payslips and calculating VAT are also automated, saving you valuable time and resources.

◊Human error, eg around transposition of figures, incorrect or incomplete recording of transactions, etc is eliminated.

◊The software can be integrated with other systems, such as online banking and e-filing, making your business processes more streamlined and effective.

So, in essence, using this software can help save you time and money, which are two really important commodities when you’re running a business. It also offers valuable insight into your business and, if you choose correctly, it could be a great investment.

And lastly, a few final thoughts

I hope this post has helped clarify why it’s so important to be organized – and stop delaying all that dreaded paperwork. The great thing is, when you feel a bit more prepared, it means you’ve got more time and energy to focus on what you do best.

So why not get ahead of your administration as soon as possible, make sure your company’s ‘future proof’ and most importantly – keep doing business!

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