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!