OSHA 2024 WRAP UP!

P&C sent out your OSHA 300a logs at the end of last week.  Please make sure you are posting these if you’ve not already done so.  Under OSHA regulations, the logs must be posted from 2/1/2025 to 4/30/2025.  Don’t worry… we’ll remind you in April when you can officially take them down.  

Year end Results: We do great at keeping our employees safe!  Some stats for you in 2024:

• 8 Work Comp Incidents (notice only)

• 23 Work Comp Claims (both categories went up slightly from 2023)

• Top 3 kinds of claims:

  • Cut / Lacerations: 6

  • Slip / Trip / Fall: 5

  • Needlesticks: 3

• Total medical paid in 2024: $10,079.08

  
  

One area of improvement we can make – and that we ask of you – is making sure that any medical notes, documentation, etc. that is related to a workers compensation claim gets sent to your P&C team so that we can make sure it gets uploaded into the record appropriately and timely. This will help with our monthly review of claims and, certainly, at the year end. 

When does an “incident” become a claim?  Your job as the GM is to make sure you are entering any employee incidents into RM Pro.  That triggers the information to be funneled to the P&C team (and our awesome safety consultants at Lockton) so that the case can be reviewed.  Tamara and Stephanie will determine if the incident should be “flipped” to a claim and officially sent to Sedgwick, our workers compensation insurance carrier.  According to OSHA, here are reasons that determine a claim:

• Days missed away from work

• Job duty restrictions

• Medical treatment beyond first aid

• Needlestick or cut from a sharp contaminated with blood or other potentially infectious material

• Removal from the worksite for medical reasons

• Tuberculosis infection

• Substantive hearing loss

• Death

• Loss of consciousness

Let’s keep safety top of mind in 2025!

I-9 TRAINING!

Attention all Inn Managers! Join your P&C team this month for a MANDATORY I-9 Training Session to ensure compliance with employment verification requirements. The session will cover proper I-9 completion, common errors and best practices.

There will be several offerings of the webinar throughout the month of February, so keep an eye on your Inbox to secure your registration!

Events & Festivals... Next year, we celebrate the Semi quincentennial!

What’s that, you ask? It is the 250th Anniversary of the United States taking place on July 4, 2026.  Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was our country.  Events may be taking place across the country celebrating various battles, wins, and milestones that lead to the establishment of the United States. These could be unique events for us, as opposed to the recurring dog shows, concerts, and sporting events we regularly look for when searching for events. 

Where do you find events and festivals in your area?  

• Events tab on Lighthouse

  • Click on the events tab

• Click on the event to get more information

  • Estimated attendance

  • Location

  • URL for the event

• Your visitors bureau / chamber website

  • Most visitors’ bureaus websites have an event tab

• Google

  • There are plenty of sites that offer a listing of events in many areas. If you find a good one, bookmark it!

• Venues – Are you subscribed to easily stay up to date on new event announcements?

  • Concert venues.

  • Sports arenas

  • Fairgrounds/Expo Centers

  • Convention Centers

What are we looking for?

• City wide events with large attendance from outside the area that need accommodations

• Events/Festivals we can partner with and offer a special discount.

When you find an event reach out to your RDSM with as much information as possible

• Event

• Dates

• Contact info

• The discount you want to offer

Your RDSM will contact the event to see if we can partner with them. 

RDSM will create a VP+ or LNR with a discount.

RDSM will get flyers, landing page (booking link), send to SEO team for a Google Post.