Joe Coppleman at Workers Comp Insider is aggregating info resources from the perspective of workers compensation and workers saftey in the face of the Katrina Disaster. He points out the challenges of those injured at work to process claims, let alone get medical attention. The hospital, hotel and emergency service workers trapped in the cesspool of New Orleans come to mind. He addresses some of the safety and compensation issues of those now employed or retasked as emergency workers. He closes with a personal plea for a dose of much-needed humility before the forces of nature and our own revealed limitations:
"It is eerie to watch these third world images of despair and dysfunction rolling out in our own country. It's something we are used to seeing in remote corners of the world, not on our own shores. But this is all too real: the total disintegration of civil society, the uselessness of the usual management "best practices." This is a crisis where the most rudimentary needs -- food, clothing, water and shelter -- cannot be provided. Between the Christmas tsunami and Katrina, two things have become all too clear: when confronted with the full brunt of nature's power, we are defenseless against the blow and pitifully ineffective in response. Let's keep that in mind when we position our species -- and our country -- in the forefront of all things civilized."
Workers Comp Insider - Katrina
Posted by dougsimpson at September 3, 2005 10:18 AM