Hopefully you have never lost a project bid because of a high TRIR. How do you protect your company from inaccurate injury reporting? About 1% of employees have a workplace injury every year. Of those injuries each year, it’s reported that approx 2% 1-2% are false claims. Those false claims cost your company money, exhibit occupational risk to potential employees and could even ruin your chance at winning future projects. Many injuries are hard to disprove, especially back and neck strains that don’t have visible signs. The employee claiming the injury is expected to only file true claims and must be proven false by the employer or reporting agency to dispute the claim. This makes the employee innocent until proven guilty.
While workers comp insurance is a small fee in comparison to the average $40,000 price tag on the average injury claim, that premium goes up if there are too many injuries for a company. False claims cost construction companies money.
Your superintendent’s daily reports may cover a general overview of the site specific work from day to day, and your safety reporting covers working conditions and investigations when injuries or near-misses occur. However, have you ever considered creating a daily report to capture non-injury reporting so that false injury claims can’t happen later? This makes a huge difference in how your employees handle injury reporting.
Construction Daily Reports Improve Risk Management
Take a look at a day in the life of your superintendent and their team. Your morning starts off like any other day. A toolbox talk, stretch and flex, and an overview of work for the day, covering areas of known construction risk. Like any other day, the construction daily report includes tasks completed, members on site, the weather and identified delays. Your team goes and clocks out and heads home after a seemingly great day. That evening, after a few rounds of ultimate frisbee, one worker goes to urgent care with a supposed back injury and tells the doctor he pulled it at work.
Maintaining risk management for your construction company has a few different looks, and we want to make sure reporting is top priority in executing risk management on a daily basis. While injury reports are common and required, for all injuries and near-miss incidents, it’s not common to report on non-injury days. Consider revising your risk management processes, identifying risks and creating a daily report your employees are required to fill out. Using a construction tracking app like busybusy allows contractors and project managers to have full visibility of the job sites they are overseeing and have documents information for all injuries that occur on the job site.
Looking at the employee who didn’t report his injury at work when it happened, but instead went to the doctor that evening and then blamed it on a work-related incident shows the value of a non-injury report. How can you prove as a company that an injury didn’t occur at work, but instead after?
A Construction App That Reduces Company Liability
The busybusy construction app includes the ability for employees to create documents that limit company liability through an added safety and liability questionnaire. This added daily report takes seconds to complete, and provides the added risk mitigation reporting structure to prevent accusations of false claims.
Combining time tracking software and construction risk identification through the construction daily report keeps employees compliant with federal labor laws. The added benefit is a non-injury report for every employee every day that allows project managers to have a better handle on their risk management process.
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