The best workers’ compensation claim is the claim that never happens. How trained are you and your employees when it comes to workplace safety?
Training ALL your employees to understand injury procedures prior to a work-related injury occurs – just as you would rehearse a fire drill – is critical in limiting your company’s workers compensation costs.
Six Training Implementations
Among the workplace safety guidelines you should incorporate into your business model:
- Implement a training seminar, lasting 60 minutes, to unveil and reinforce injury management program concepts to your management and to hand out new workers comp materials. The goal is to inform management of workers comp concepts and how workers comp expenses are impacting the business.
- Put in place an in-service training session for supervisors to train them in proper post-injury responses should there be a work-related injury.
- Such as the case with fire drills, when a work-related injury takes place, every supervisor and employee must be able to show they can do what is necessary, where to go, and how to receive assistance.
- Put together small-group employee training sessions to go over post-injury response training and integrate new roles and responsibilities into the workplace system.
- Training includes showing workers on who to alert when a work-related injury takes place and what their responsibilities are if they see a work-related injury.
- Have workers sign an in-service acknowledgement indicating they have obtained post-injury response training.
Having your employees ready and able to appropriately respond to a workplace injury is half the battle.
Author Michael Stack, Principal, COMPClub, Amaxx LLC. He is an expert in workers compensation cost containment systems and helps employers reduce their work comp costs by 20% to 50%. He works as a consultant to large and mid-market clients, is co-author of Your Ultimate Guide To Mastering Workers Comp Costs, a comprehensive step-by-step manual of cost containment strategies based on hands-on field experience, and is founder of COMPClub, an exclusive member training program on workers compensation cost containment best practices. Through these platforms he is in the trenches on a working together with clients to implement and define best practices, which allows him to continuously be at the forefront of innovation and thought leadership in workers’ compensation cost containment. Contact: mstack@reduceyourworkerscomp.com.
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