Safety CheckUp

As your Workers’ Compensation carrier, we want to help keep you and your employees safe throughout the year. Take advantage of our free, easy-to-use safety checkups to quickly assess your workers’ compensation safety program.

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Review Your Formal Safety Programs
Effective safety policies are essential to facilitating a safe work environment and providing a clear and consistent plan for addressing safety at your workplace.

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OSHA 300 Summary and Logs
If you haven’t already done so, here’s a mid-month reminder! The 300A summary form records work-related injuries and illnesses that occur during the calendar year and must be posted in a prominent location within your business from February 1 to April 30 of each year.

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Equipment Inspections
Anything need to be updated, thrown out, purchased? Look at everything from PPE supply and hand and power tools, to the state of your floor matting and the condition of your ladders.

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Learn more about Ladder Safety
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Review Emergency Action Plan
When emergencies happen, they require quick, correct, and decisive responses. This emergency action plan facilitates and organizes actions of your workforce during workplace emergencies.

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Conduct Safe Driver Training
Sometimes the most dangerous part of an employee’s workday is when they’re on the road. Just one work-related motor vehicle collision could affect your organization’s productivity and finances, but more importantly, the health and future of your employees.

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Heat Illness Prevention and Training
Heat illness is deadly. In fact, each year thousands of workers succumb to heat exposure. Before it heats up, train your workers on how to prevent heat illnesses and related deaths.

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Safety Observations
Unsafe behaviors cause accidents! Effective safety observations will identify risky behaviors so you can correct them and keep your workplace safe.

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Review Forklift Certifications
A forklift in motion is a safety risk in motion. Ensure your operators have received the proper forklift safety training, and don’t forget refresher trainings are needed every 3 years.

Check out this forklift safety toolbox talk
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Review CPR and First Aid Certifications
Are your employees up-to-date on their CPR and First Aid certifications? This is a great time to find out. Once injury or sudden illness has occurred, effective first aid can be the difference between life or death.

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Safe Driver Training
Watch this all-new transportation safety series and learn the primary risks associated with fleet operations and the programs you can put in place to reduce risk and protect your drivers and vehicles.

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Review HazComm Inventory and Plans
Your employees have a right to know what the chemicals are in the workplace, the hazards that are associated with them, and the proper methods of controlling those hazards.

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Incident Investigations
In an incident investigation, timing is everything. Over time, the ability to collect evidence and accurately determine what happened decreases. Therefore, investigating a workplace accident must start as soon as it is safe.

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Learn how to conduct meaningful investigations (Spanish)
Learn about online training for incident investigations
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Building Safety – Fire Extinguishers
Fire extinguishers can be found in many facilities and often save lives and property. But fires double in size every 60 seconds, so using an extinguisher incorrectly or at the wrong time can quickly cause injury or death.

Learn about online training for fire extinguishers
Learn about the 3 P’s of fire extinguisher basics
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Housekeeping
One of the best preventative measures in the battle against injuries, and emergencies is good housekeeping. Housekeeping reduces hazards in the workplace and makes day-to-day operations safer for everyone.

Check out this quick course on housekeeping
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HazComm Webinar and Training
The Globally Harmonized System (GHS) standardizes how we communicate about chemical hazards in the workplace. OSHA has also adapted its Hazard Communication Standard to align with the GHS. Watch this training to find out what you need to know for your business.

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Workplace Violence
Approximately 2 million American workers report being victims of workplace violence annually. Due to fears of retaliation, job loss, ruined image, and shame, it is expected that many more cases go unreported. Learn the warning signs of workplace violence and prevention techniques.

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Learn more about avoiding workplace violence (Spanish)
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Fraud
Fighting work comp fraud starts with knowing what to look for. Who is likely to commit fraud? What are the warning signs? In this fraud-fighting webinar training series, an expert from ICW Group’s Special Investigations Unit discusses what red flags to look for before fraud is committed and how to fight back.

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Transitional Work Program Review
The emotional and operational costs of an injured employee can be overwhelming. To help, ICW Group created a Transitional Work Program to maintain team cohesion through the injury and recovery process.

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Cold Weather Driver Training
Get tips on how to navigate through weather and road-related hazards found when driving in winter weather.

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Ladder Training
Did you know that there are more than 164,000 emergency room visits related to ladders each year? Improper ladder use has serious implications. Make ladder safety a priority by watching our on-demand webinar!

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Training Calendars by Industry
Establishing a training calendar to ensure your employees are safety proficient leads to a safer work environment. It also shows your employees you care about their wellbeing and safety is a priority. To help, we offer pre-set training calendars for various industries with the relevant resources you need to train your team

View training calendars for a variety of industries