Risk Control Program

SAFETY AND RISK CONTROL PROGRAM

We know from experience that an active and highly visible safety program results in reduced losses and costs in both the workplace and the everyday lives of your employees. At work, increased visibility means increased safety awareness. Increased awareness changes employee behaviors and creates a safety culture that expands beyond the workplace and begins to influence safe behavior outside of the work environment. Employees take home what they learn at work and begin teaching their families safe behaviors and attitudes. When a safety culture evolves into the workplace and homes, the money that would have gone to pay for injuries and property losses turns into a fiscal savings for you. With the savings created by a vibrant safety culture, services or employee benefits can be expanded, or the burden on your fellow taxpayers can be eased. In short, when your safety program succeeds, everyone wins.

At the November 2004 Strategic Planning Session, the LAWCX Board of Directors directed the Executive Committee to work with staff and the Bickmore Risk Services (BRS) risk control team to create a risk control program for LAWCX. Since that time, the program has changed each year based on the needs of the members and LAWCX as a whole.

ASSUMPTIONS FOR PROGRAM DESIGN

Understanding that each member is at a different stage in their risk control efforts, the program offers two unique qualities. The first is that members will receive points that may be used to access a vast array of LAWCX’s risk management services specifically designed to prevent worker injuries and reduce the cost of losses. The second is the creation of a menu of services covering safety management training, TPA assistance, and risk management consultation services available to all members (JPA’s and individual entities). The program is built on the assumptions that:

each member is at a different stage in the administration of their risk funding, risk control, and safety programs
each member has individual risk management program goals
each member has different needs in support of their goals
members require options to deal with their risk management needs
the success of the JPA is dependent upon the underlying membership’s ability to objectively assess, manage, and monitor how much risk each entity is prepared to accept and control

The program provides tangible benefits for the individual members of LAWCX in the services rendered and the impact on losses and loss costs. It goes beyond the concept of rent-a-risk manager by making a broad array of services and expertise available from various experts in the field.