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Seth D. Harris Deputy Secretary of Labor

Seth D. Harris Deputy Secretary of Labor. Shelby Hallmark Director Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. POWER Initiative. Signed by President Obama July 19, 2010 Will run from FY11 through FY14 Succeeds and expands the Safety, Health and Return to Employment (SHARE) Initiative.

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Seth D. Harris Deputy Secretary of Labor

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  1. Seth D. Harris Deputy Secretary of Labor

  2. Shelby Hallmark Director Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs

  3. POWER Initiative • Signed by President Obama July 19, 2010 • Will run from FY11 through FY14 • Succeeds and expands the Safety, Health and Return to Employment (SHARE) Initiative

  4. POWER Initiative POWER will build on SHARE’s successes: • Additional goals • Data analysis • Learning from our successes

  5. SHARE Initiative • Announced in Presidential memo dated January 9, 2004 • Ran from FY 2004 - FY 2009 • Established 4 goals: • 2 tracked by OSHA • 2 tracked by OWCP

  6. SHARE Success • By the end of the SHARE Initiative in FY2009, the Federal government (less US Postal Service) met the targets for all four SHARE goals

  7. SHARE Goal #1 - Reduce Total Case Rates

  8. SHARE Goal #2: Lost Time Case Rate

  9. SHARE GOAL #3: Timely Filing of Claims

  10. SHARE Goal #4: Lost Production Days

  11. David Michaels, PhD, MPH Assistant Secretary Occupational Safety and Health Administration

  12. POWER basics • OSHA and OWCP will help agencies improve their workplaces • Promotes DOL strategic goals to: • Foster quality workplaces that are safe, healthy and fair • Minimize the impact of work-related injuries

  13. POWER “plan, prevent, protect” • POWER sets minimum goals to help agencies improve safety and health • Encourages agencies to take proactive measures • Focus ison prevention and worker support

  14. Moving to POWER POWER will: • Update baseline so agencies are challenged anew. Many goals now use a FY 2009 baseline. • Introduce new goals to focus on: • effectively responding to the most common and serious injuries • timely filing of wage loss claims • timely reemployment of injured workers

  15. How POWER fits in • Holds agencies accountable for improving injury and illness rates • Provides guidance for potential internal goals for agencies • Gives OSHA another tool to reach out to federal agencies

  16. POWER’s 7 goals • Reduce injury and illness total case rates • Reduce injury and illness lost time case rates • Analyze lost time injury and illness data • Increase the timely filing of workers’ comp claims • Increase the timely filing of wage loss claims • Reduce lost production days • Increase return to work rate for injured worker

  17. Monitoring POWER • OSHA will monitor goals 1 through 3 • OWCP will monitor goals 4 through 7

  18. OSHA’s POWER goals • Goal 1: Reduce total injury and illness rates • Goal 2: Reduce lost-time injury and illness rates • Goal 3: Analyze injury and illness data

  19. POWER: goals 1 & 2 • Agencies at or above the national average must have a minimum 4% reduction in their total and lost time case rates • Agencies below the national average must have a minimum 1% reduction in their total and lost time case rates • Agencies must have at least a 1% reduction from the prior year • Targets set annually

  20. POWER: goal 3 • Agencies with a lost-time rate above the national average must submit a summary of measures taken to address the most frequent and severe cases. • OSHA will reach out to these agencies to assist them.

  21. POWER: OSHA resources • FACOSH – Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health • FFSHCs – Federal Field Safety and Health Councils

  22. POWER: More OSHA resources • ATARs – Agency Technical Assistance Requests • Training • OSHA’s Web Page for Prevention Strategies and Resource Tools atwww.osha.gov • Office of Federal Agency Programs, (202)693-2122

  23. Shelby Hallmark Director Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs

  24. POWER Initiative • Goals 4 through 7: Tracked by OWCP • Timely Filing of Workers’ Comp Claims • Timely Filing of Wage Loss Claims • Lost Production Days • Injured Worker Return to Work Rate

  25. POWER Goals • Goal 4, Timely filing of workers’ compensation claims • Increase by 3% per year above the FY 2009 baseline or meet the minimum filing percentage for the year, whichever is greater.

  26. POWER Goals • Goal 5,Timely filing of wage loss claims (forms CA-7) to meet or exceed minimum annual thresholds.

  27. POWER Goals • Goal 6, Lost production day rates • Goal is reduction by 1% per year below the FY2009 baseline or maintain a rate of 15 days or less.

  28. POWER Goals • Goal 7, Return to work percentage improvement • 14 largest agencies tracked (45 cases or more) • Goal is increase 1% in year one, 2% each in years 2-4

  29. Goal 7: Return to Work • Supports Executive Order #13,548 (July 26, 2010) requiring agencies to increase their employment of persons with disabilities, particularly the reemployment of federal employees injured on the job whenever possible.

  30. Goal 7: Return to Work • Which cases are counted? • Cases entered into OWCP’s Disability Management (DM) tracking system • A successful return to work (RTW) is counted when the injured worker returns to the employing agency within the two year tracking period

  31. Goal 7: Return to Work • Which cases are excluded? • Cases that do not involve serious workplace injuries are not counted. This includes cases in which the injured worker returns to work during the 45 day Continuation of Pay (COP) period.

  32. Goal 7: Return to Work • How does a case fall into the DM tracking universe? • A tracking record is created upon awareness that an injured worker is totally or partially disabled due to the work injury or illness

  33. Goal 7: Return to Work • How were agency baselines determined? • By measuring cases in DM whose two year tracking period ended during the four quarters of FY09. • Baseline RTW rate is the percentage of tracked cases in which the injured employee returned to work with the agency (full or limited duty)

  34. Goal 7: Return to Work Example: Agency X Cohort 4: 260 cases, 215 RTW Cohort 3: 235 cases, 195 RTW Cohort 2: 250 cases, 200 RTW Cohort 1: 220 cases, 190 RTW Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 FY 2007 FY 2009

  35. Goal 7: Return to Work • The average rate of return to work during those four cohorts ending during FY09 will be used as each agency’s baseline for establishing targets for Goal 7 Baseline RTW rate = 800/965 = 82.9%

  36. Goal 7: Return to Work • How agencies can help: • Close monitoring of disability cases and limited duty job offers whenever possible • Electronic filing of forms CA-7 and CA-3 via the Agency Query System (AQS)

  37. Goal 7: Return to Work • How OWCP can help: • Provide agencies with reports showing cases being tracked • Focus on early intervention in order to reduce the length and severity of disability

  38. RTW Report: Non-Returned to Work Cases

  39. RTW Report: Returned to Work Cases

  40. RTW Report: Excluded cases

  41. Requests for RTW Reports • Agencies may contact DFEC’s Branch of Technical Assistance (BTA) periodically to request RTW reports • BTA will contact you shortly with a listing of agency liaisons and staff contact information

  42. E-COMP Employees’ Compensation Operations and Management Portal (E-COMP) • Electronic filing of key forms • Injured worker initiates form, routes to supervisor • Tracks forms’ location until submitted to OWCP • Medical providers, agencies, workers can upload documents DIRECTLY into OWCP case file • Participating agencies can generate POWER reports for timelag purposes • Coming soon: summer 2011

  43. E-COMP • Will promote timely filing of CA-1s, CA-2s, and CA-7s, assisting agencies in meeting POWER goals 4 and 5 • Timely CA-3 will help OWCP identify which cases need RTW services and which do not, assisting agencies in meeting POWER goals 6 and 7

  44. POWER Performance Data • Beginning in FY2011, performance data on POWER goals for all agencies will be posted quarterly at: • http://www.dol.gov/owcp/dfec/power

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