INCONTROL SAFETY MANAGEMENT PROCESS:

Reduce the cost of Workers’ Compensation and Employee injuries

Reduce the negative cash flow to insurance programs, families of injured employees, Federal Employment Liability Act (FELA), State Workers Compensation programs, Federal Employment Compensation Act, Longshore and Maritime Compensation Act and workmen’s law suits or claims through statistical identification and focused intervention techniques. No need to alter your current safety program. Participants experience an 87-90% success rate as “injury prone” employees never have another reportable injury.

With all the innovations in power, organizations and operating strategy, one would expect that in the area of employee safety dramatic changes would be forthcoming as well. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. Too many industry leaders safety still remains an enigma that can go its own route regardless of what management does. The innovation, using a behavioral approach, in general has provided some demonstrated improvement, but even this approach doe not seem to address the entire “problem”.

This is where ETEC's disciplined approach, INcontrol©, can assist companies such as yours. This is not another safety program - INcontrol© makes your safety program more effective. You continue to use – without modification – the safety program that you feel is meeting your needs. INcontrol© offers a structured approach that looks at employees and job functions to determine if the safety performance is in statistical control. The INcontrol© process, offers you immediately two proactive deliverables.

The deliverable number one is a function specific job analysis that highlights those work processes that statistically indicate high risk to your workers. This analysis is a valuable resource because it offers your managers the ability to focus on those job processes that should be reengineered from a safety perspective... Because the INcontrol© process uses statistical analysis to identify these high risk processes, the results tends to be more insightful and complete than if one just looked at the raw injury numbers.

Deliverable number two gives you as part of the INcontrol© package a listing of employees who’s past performance indicates they are statistically out of control. Understand, this is more than assigning injuries to a given individual – you probably do that today. But in your analysis there is no way to reasonably compare an employee who has 11 injuries and 12 years of service to that of an employee who has 2 injuries and 3 years of service (the latter is significantly more of a liability than the former).

INcontrol© identifies these at risk individuals, as ETEC supports an intervention program that has consistently maintained a 87 – 90% success rate (success defined as once through, the employee has never reported an injury again). We will draw upon our network of professionals to deliver an assessment of both the high-risk processes and the high-risk employees. We will also provide you and your management team a list of recommendations that will be derived from multiple sources while we conduct this process.

This is not a new program – it has been undergoing extensive testing and modification over the past five years – with impressive results. We have used it in many sectors of the economy; on an ongoing basis; as well as, a once and done basis. In each case, INcontrol© was capable of aiding the client significantly in improving their safety experience.

To learn more about this unique approach towards safety contact ETEC. We are confident that when you see that to use this process nothing has to change, and the valuable output received could provide a solid basis for further safety improvements, you will want to implement it.

Actual Case Study “ZZ Company”

Profile of ZZ Company

ZZ Company utilized INcontrol© over five consecutive years as a significant input into its overall safety program. The company had over 1,000 employees during the same period, of which about 80% work in either dangerous job functions or multiple locations and conditions within two states. The company in any given year experienced about 100 injuries per year (range 80-120). The company is a transportation service company with 24/7 operations. Over 80% of the employees are represented by one of a number of unions. Of every injury/incident that was reported by the company they accrued $80,000. Therefore annual direct costs of employ injuries had averaged $8 million annually for the company, which equates to just under $8,000 per employee for each and every employee of the company.

Results of INcontrol© at ZZ Company

During the first year seventy-three (73) participants went through a one-day intervention program and the following year seventy-seven attended. Over the 5 years of working with this organization less than 5% of all the attendees of the intervention class had sustained an additional injury. Based on past experience, 40% of those employees identified for intervention would in all likelihood had sustained an injury since their intervention session. This positive change in a select group of employees alone produced savings to the company of over $2 million. Of special significance occurred with one of the most dangerous/hazardous job functions (police/security force) as identified from the company historic injuries/incidents statistics. This group ended with a greater than a 28% improvement in reduction of injuries/incidents over the presented time period with the most significant drop in the first year.

Three results from utilizing the INcontrol© process was: 1. A significant drop in the first year; 2. A sustainable decrease in the following years; and 3. These results were typical regardless of the craft, job description, or union/non-union affiliation within the total employee population.

Although there were significant improvements within the first year there were reversals in some of the following years due to management not responding quickly to requirement process improvements identified by INcontrol© and supervision looking the other way to obvious safety problems.

At the conclusion of the five-year period, the company went from an average of 100 injuries/incidents per year to 36 injuries/incidents (46% improvement). The improvement translates into direct cost savings of just over $5 million and was the major contributor to the profitability of the company for the final year under study.

Examples of other related benefits include insurance premium reductions, opportunities for improved employee/management relations, improved reporting systems, and data that provided fact-based measures to make management decisions around safety issues/root cause analysis and investments.