Nine Best Practices for Managing Employee Safety and Workers' Compensation

Lockton reports on how long-term care facilities can improve their financial results by keeping employees on the job

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Oct 16, 2014, 03:24 ET

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Often times, workers' compensation claims are handled by human resource departments while employee safety is overseen by the risk management team. However, the best results for employees and patients of long-term care facilities occur when safety and claim management practices dovetail with human resources and prevention policies.

In the recent report "Nine Best Practices in Managing Employee Safety and Workers' Compensation for Long-Term Care Facilities," Lockton's Kim Brown looks at the opportunities that long-term care facilities have to improve their safety programs and reduce workers' compensation costs.

"It is important that everyone knows what to do to prevent injuries and what procedure to follow in the unfortunate event of an injury," said Brown.

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The Lockton report provides nine best practices for long-term care facilities including:

Educating employees on safe patient handling
Providing specialized training on behavioral health and dementia care
Reducing cost of claims by reporting within three days
Building strong partnerships with vendors

"Lockton's experience in combining loss prevention and claim strategies, communicating clearly with facility administrators, and providing resources and mentoring to individual facilities has allowed our clients to dramatically reduce their short-term and long-term workers' compensation results," said Brown. "This is not only a financial savings, but more importantly allows your dedicated staff to stay on the job, doing the work they love in a safe environment."

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More than 5,300 professionals at Lockton provide 41,000 clients around the world with risk management, insurance, and employee benefits consulting services that improve their businesses. From its founding in 1966 in Kansas City, Missouri, Lockton has attracted entrepreneurial professionals who have driven its growth to become the largest privately held, independent insurance broker in the world and 10^thlargest overall. Independent researcher Greenwich Associates has awarded Lockton its Service Excellence Award for risk management for large companies. For five consecutive years, Business Insurance has recognized Lockton as a "Best Place to Work in Insurance." To see the latest insights from Lockton's experts, check Lockton Market Update.

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