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MVSPC

The Mohawk Valley Safety Professional's Consortium (MVSPC) is a five-year-old organization comprising of area manufacturers, retailers, educational organizations, and service providers. Our mission is to assist each other in solving safety and health-related challenges in our workplace and community.

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MVSPC

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  1. Welcomes Assemblywoman RoAnn Destito MVSPC MVSPC

  2. Empire Aero Center MVSPC

  3. Centrex Clinical Laboratories, Inc. M U N S O N W I L L I A M S P R O C T O R Arts I N S T I T U T E

  4. What is the MVSPC? We are a five year old organization consisting of over seventy plus area manufacturers, retail, educational organizations and service providers Our mission is to assist one another with solving safety and health related challenges in our workplace/community MVSPC

  5. MVSPCArea Members Company:Employees: • International Wire 800 • Cathedral Corp 119 • ECR International 156 • Empire Aero Center 200 • Oneida Nation 4,700 • Lutheran Care 450 • Mullen Industrial 45 • Rite Aid* 476 • Wal-Mart* 1,500 • Homogenous Metals 120 • Bartell Machinery 100 • De Iorio’s Frozen Dough 65 • Remington Arms Co., Inc. 1,100 • Climax Manufacturing* 325 • Smurfit-Stone Container* 140 • St Elizabeth Medical Center* 2,000 • The Arc, O-L Chapter, NYSARC 654 • Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute 178 • Access Health Systems 35 • Utica National 1,000 • Golub Corporation/Price Chopper* 20,000 Company:Employees: • CONMED* 1,172 • Harden* 500 • HP Hood 375 • Faxton-St Lukes 2,843 • Orion Bus Ind. 500 • Revere 450 • Indium Corporation 300 • Rome Memorial 1,045 • Bonide 135 • Northern Safety 200 • Special Metals 449 • Utica Convertors, Inc. 200 • Rome Strip Steel 166 • Slocum-Dickson* 480 • Family Dollar 500 • Goodrich 226 • Riverhawk Company 70 • Centrex Labs 430 • The Chamber Alliance of MV NA • Riverhawk Company 70 • North Syracuse CSD* 1,485 * These employers are self-insured in Workers Compensation MVSPC

  6. Membership’s Total Jobs 45,759 MVSPC

  7. Some of the Mohawk Valley Manufacturing Jobs Lost Company:Employees: • Ethan Allen 360 • Guilford Mills 1,000 • LaSalle Labs (In process) 350 • Lyons Falls Paper 300 • Rome Cable 500 • Utica Corporation 300 • Spargo Wire 100 • Oneida LTD 1,000 Total Jobs Lost 3,910 MVSPC

  8. Worker Compensation Reform Goal: To partner with NY State to develop a cost effective Worker Compensation System that benefits both the injured workers and the employer. Presented by the Mohawk Valley Safety Professional’s Consortium MVSPC

  9. Our Employees Are Important to Us!! As employers we want any legitimate work related case dealt with in a professional and timely manner Our Goal Is a Safe &HealthyWorkplace MVSPC

  10. ConMed Employee’s by Location

  11. ConMed’s Incurred Dollars01-01-04 to 10-20-05

  12. We have done several things We have partnered with medical providers We have met with David Wehner, the Chairman of the WC Board We have NYS Workers Compensation Board’s Business Advocate, David Austin, in our meetings We have met with a senior workers compensation law judge We participated in: The NYCAN Press Conference, on3-1-06, in Albany The HR Voice in Albany day on 4-6-06 concerning WC/FMLA We Are a Pro-Active Group MVSPC

  13. Communication between employers and medical providers has improved: Understanding of each others concerns Best practices in medical care Fast tracking to Physical Therapy/specialists Employees have been returning to work quicker The need for occupational medicine has been highlighted Some improvements have occurred MVSPC

  14. Why?? The problems are systemic The current legal system forces us into a he said/ she said situation requiring us to controvert marginal cases It has become easier to “work the system” Health issues are allowed into the comp arena Doctor shopping – jumping around from doctor to doctor for a friendly diagnosis is accepted Judges can be inconsistent and unfair The price of medical care goes up even though Comp has a fee schedule Workers compensation costs 3X health costs MVSPC

  15. Workers compensation was intended to be a no-fault system – it no longer acts like one because: It has become an entitlement The system tends to stretch out hearings The system is not in search of the truth Unnecessary steps have crept into the system What has gone wrong? MVSPC

  16. We need your help – we cannot afford to wait The workers compensation system is broken The system is not working for the injured worker The workers compensation system has the 2nd highest cost As a result real jobs, and the ability to bring new jobs into the state are jeopardized None of us has all the answers, but it is clear that Permanent Partial Disability is a critical issue Improvements have to be made now – we need you to support Pataki’s Reform Bill (It is not perfect, but it is a good starting point) How can the system be fixed? MVSPC

  17. Our Goal: To partner with NYS to develop a Cost effective Worker Compensation System that benefits both the injured workers and the employer. Summary MVSPC

  18. MVSPC Thanks you for this audience MVSPC

  19. Questions Comments MVSPC

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