WEBINAR - How to Motivate Workers' Compensation Insurers to Compete for your Business - Especially During Renewal Time

Description:

This session will walk through a standard workers’ compensation insurance Supplemental Application: - Operations and Benefits: Driver safety, Early Return to Work - Hiring Practices, Employee Selection and Claims: - Hiring and applicant screening practices, Is job-specific training provided? Subcontractors used? Workers’ compensation claims and what you have done to minimize recurrence. Safety Program and Organization: -Are owners involved in daily operations, how, and how much? -Active Injury and Illness Prevention Program? -Has OSHA visited or cited your business in the past year? -Do you have a Safety Officer, Safety Director or Risk Manager? What does that person do and how much time does she/he spend on safety in the course of a day or week? -Do employees receive safety training/orientation? -Any lifting exposures? -Forklift training/retraining provided? -Written Lockout/Tagout/Block out procedures in place? -Respiratory Protection Program in place? -Maximum height at which you will work? -Personal Protective Equipment provided? -Contractors- use of cranes, booms or similar heavy construction equipment? -Any work below grade? -Any Confined Space exposure? Closing and a note about what to do if you have an unfavorable claim history.

Who Should Attend:

Members’ owners and/or employees and insurance advisors- i.e. owners and officers, CFO’s who participate or may participate in the annual workers’ compensation insurance renewal process, their insurance agents and advisors, designated safety officers, General Superintendents and Foremen who are tasked with enforcing field safety practices, Human Resource personnel who manage insurance claims and who might participate in the workers’ compensation insurance renewal process, and whomever members perceive will benefit from this webinar

Presented By: Robert Tuman

2012 to present - President, CCR Safety Consulting.  CCR Safety Consulting provides an array of risk management and safety and accident prevention and training services to construction, manufacturing, and general industry companies. 

1984-2012. President and Founder, Compensation Claims Review Corp., 89 North Main St., Andover, MA 01810. CCR Corporation provided a wide array of risk management and safety and accident prevention services to construction and general industry corporate clients.

1984-2024. Loss Control Consultant and Quality Assurance Reviewer. Loss Control Surveys and jobsite inspections for major workers’ compensation insurance companies and helping policyholders develop, incorporate, execute and sustain safety programs and practices. As a Quality Assurance Reviewer, I reviewed Loss Control Consultants’ reports, findings, and recommendations.

EDUCATION

M.B.A. Boston University Graduate School of Management.

M.Ed. Suffolk University

B.A. University of Maine, Orono, Maine.

QUALIFICATIONS

One of first three Loss Management companies to be approved in December, 1990 as a Massachusetts Qualified Loss Management Provider; One of the two architects, with Merwyn Bagan, M.D., Chairman of Health Source (now a subsidiary of CIGNA HealthCare), of the New Hampshire first-in-the-nation Workers’ Compensation Managed Care Program; Provided recommendations to the Massachusetts’ Governor’s office regarding salient loss control and safety programs and practices which were included in the Massachusetts workers’ compensation reform bill Presentation to the Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Governor’s Advisory Council; Published on safety and workers’ compensation issues in The Standard, Associated Builders and Contractors Magazine, Independent Agent, Contractors’ Compass- of the Associated Subcontractors of America, Insurance Times, Professional Agent, Constructor Magazine- of the Associated General Contractors of America, and American Agent and Broker Magazine eBooks: “Contractors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Your Loss Control Survey” (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY391KC9), “Contractors: What About That Questionable Claim?” (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3W5PZ6Y),
“Contractors: How to Motivate Workers Comp Insurers to Compete for Your Business” (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D92SHTKD)

OSHA Construction Outreach Trainer, 10 and 30 Hour construction safety training, 2002-2014

Guest lecturer, Construction Safety, California Polytechnic University Construction Management Department

Construction Safety Training expertise: Fall Protection, Personal Protective Equipment, Confined Space Entry, Excavation Safety, Equipment and Tool Safety, Scaffold Safety, Ladder Safety, Aerial Lift Safety, Powered Industrial Truck safety, Electrical Safety- including Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) and NFPA 70E (arc flash/arc blast protection), Respiratory Protection, Hazard Communication/Globally Harmonized Systems, Machine Guarding. Please note that this is not an all-inclusive list.