School District Improves Focus on Safety and Injury Managements and Slashes Premium 45%
Discover how a school district with 775 staff and 6,000 students reduced annual injuries from 62 to 28 and cut lost time cases by 60%. Our comprehensive safety approach, including new processes and improved employee screening, led to a 45% reduction in insurance premiums. Learn how education and collaboration drove success.
Business
School District with staff of 775 employees, including teachers, bus drivers, maintenance, administrative and numerous other categories. Over 6,000 students enrolled in K-12
Situation
The district was seeing an increase in both frequency and lost time injuries, causing their premium to double.
Assessment
Risk Management and HR Assessment revealed that the injuries were not only coming from expected areas such as maintenance and food services, but also areas not normally know for injuries, such as the teachers.
Solution
Educating everyone in the district, from top to bottom including the school board, to understand the costs of their injuries enable them to focus on preventing injuries. Implementing new safety processes and programs, as well as improved new employee screening including functional capacity testing helped reduce the number of injuries Working with the labor unions, created and implemented a robust transitional duty program for injured employees. Working with their HR, improving and adding programs and trainings to make an impact.
Result
Reduced the annual average of injuries over the past 4 years to 28 from 62 the previous 4 years, and the trend is continuing to improve. The number of lost time has gone from averaging 10 a year to averaging 4. This enable them to be more attractive to insurance companies and reduce their premium by 45%.
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