How To Implement An Effective Workers Compensation Disability Management Program – Strategy 4 Of 10
Identify and Focus On Your Key Claim Trends
Once you have established and communicated your workers compensation disability management policy, assembled your disability management team, and gotten intimately acquainted with the legal parameters related to your workers compensation laws, the next step is to begin identifying potential temporary duty tasks within your facility.
For many companies this may seem at first blush to be a daunting job. After all there may be hundreds of tasks throughout your facility and an impossibility to evaluate all of them. Well, there is a little bit of good news. By carefully evaluating those areas of your operation that have historically generated the most worker injury claims you not only are better understanding how to prevent future losses but also identifying many temporary duty tasks. You should carefully analyze your losses over a given timeframe from the standpoint:
- Nature of injury;
- Cause of loss;
- Body part injured;
- By department;
- By time of day;
- By day of the week;
- By month of the year.
When completed, this analysis will provide you with valuable insight into the types and number of claims that are occurring in your operation, the financial impact of the injuries, where the injuries are occurring, and when they are occurring. It is strongly recommended that you perform this analysis at least annually as there are often surprising lessons and insights that can be learned.
The best source of information for this analysis is from your insurance carrier (workers compensation loss runs) and your OSHA log. In addition, the impact on your experience modification can be provided by either your insurance carrier or your insurance agent via readily available claim analysis software. All factors highlighted in this analysis are critical to a complete understanding or your historical loss trends.
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