10/31/2017

Avoid Costly Halloween Mistakes at Work

Halloween celebrations can create safety hazards

Workplace Halloween celebrations can be more than just frightful if workers are injured during the festivities. Halloween-related injuries at work happen more than you might think.

Take an employer that set up a haunted house on its premises in a town that did not have one. The Midwest-based financial services company thought that it was being altruistic, but because of the haunted house's poor design, a chainsaw-wielding accountant dressed up as Jason Voorhees from the "Friday the 13th" horror movies chased an intern into a wall and she broke her nose.

If a company is not in the business of running haunted houses, it should think twice before setting one up, cautioned Philippe Weiss, managing director of Seyfarth Shaw at Work in Chicago.

Please click here to read the complete article from Harvard Business Review.