Businesses spend millions of dollars each year to improve the safety of their employees. Respirators are fitted, fork lifts are inspected, spills are cleaned, backgrounds are checked and committees meet. But after all these things are done to reduce the frequency of injury, people still get hurt.
These injuries may have been preventable, but they still happened. This is where the powerful three words come into play; "Get Well Soon". If your family member, friend or neighbor feel off a ladder in front of you, after you drive them to the doctor you might consider sending a get well card.
Each year 7,000,000,000 greeting cards are sold in the United States, of those 7% or 49,000,000 are Get Well Cards. Of those, how many were purchased for any of the 2,800,000 work related injuries which occur each year?
Being nice is the right thing to do, but it is also harder to sue someone who is being nice. I'm not saying that a $3 card will prevent all litigation, but it will show that you are human. Being hurt at work is a scary thing for most employees. They don't know if they are going to still have a job or be able to pay their bills.
I have even seen businesses send Wal-Mart gift cards to injureds, so they have a little something to buy diapers.
Sometimes being nice is not just the right thing to do, it makes good business sense too.
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