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SafetyGRANT$

NEW! Safety Intervention Grant$ Phase VI starts July 1, 2009. Download a copy of the SafetyGRANT$ Procedural Guide for details.

Safety Works for You® and your company - And BWC can give you the money to make it happen.

SafetyGRANT$ for Ohio employers
The Safety Intervention Grant$ Program is available to any Ohio state-fund or public employer who wishes to purchase equipment to substantially reduce or eliminate injuries and illnesses associated with a particular task or operation.

Reporting
Safety grant reporting is available online! Submit your 90-day data reports through our Web site. Click here to access Safety grant reporting.

Employers are required to provide a one-year case study report on their SafetyGRANT$ intervention item. Send the case study to:
BWC SafetyGRANT$
c/o SafetyGRANT$ program coordinator
13430 Yarmouth Drive
Pickerington, OH 43147-8310
or send a fax to 614-365-4972 one year after the implementation date.


Safety Grant Best Practices
The BWC SafetyGRANT$ program proudly introduces a new interactive Web page designed to share results of the program.This initial introduction allows users to select an industry and risk factor type or enter a key word search to obtain case studies specific to their interests. Future additions to this page will include Web links, articles and other resources specific to the user's request.

Preliminary results of the CTD grant program
We offer a series of publications that could help prevent CTDs in your workplace. You can download and print the manuals listed below. We developed these best-practice manuals based on the research data gathered through our SafetyGRANT$ program.


Safety Intervention Grant$ Program

To participate in the program an employer must pay into the Ohio State Insurance Fund, maintain active coverage, be current on all monies owed BWC and demonstrate the need for a safety intervention.

With the safety intervention grant, private and public employers are eligible for a 2-to-1 matching grant, up to a maximum of $40,000, meaning a total of $60,000 — $20,000 from the employer and $40,000 from BWC. The employer will benefit through a substantial reduction or elimination of workplace injuries and illnesses, and their related costs.

In return, the employer will submit to BWC quarterly data reports and a case study one year after the date of the intervention. BWC will use this information to determine the effectiveness of the intervention and share successes with other employers.

Because of the large number of requests we received for particular intervention items, and in keeping within the scope of the SafetyGRANT$ research project, the following interventions will no longer be considered for SafetyGRANT$ funding:

  • Bathing systems
  • Ceiling lifts
  • Cranes: bridge and jib
  • Electric beds
  • Exercise equipment
  • Floor-based patient-lifting devices
  • Forklifts
  • Lift tables
  • Patient ambulation devices
  • Patient bathing and toileting chairs
  • Patient scales
  • Personal protective equipment
  • Powered dolly equipment
  • SawStops
  • Skid steerers, front-end loaders, bobcats, all earth-moving equipment
  • Stair chairs/cots
  • Standard guardrailing systems
  • Standard machine guarding
  • Stretchers
  • Transfer tables
  • Transplanters, taggers
  • Vehicles, including cars and trucks
  • Weaponry, including tasers
To begin the application process, simply download the SafetyGRANT$ Procedural Guide.

For more information about SafetyGRANT$, call your local BWC customer service office or 1-800-OHIOBWC, and follow the options.


Drug-Free Workplace Grant Program
BWC has safety grants available for employers participating in our Drug-Free Workplace Program (DFWP) and Drug-Free EZ Program (DF-EZ). Ohio state-fund or public employers who participate in either of these programs can apply for grant money from BWC to offset their costs. Private employers can receive up to $10,000, while public employers can receive up to $15,000.

NEW! DFWP and DF-EZ grant program guidelines
Effective November 2008, DFWP and DF-EZ program participants can use their grant money to help meet only those drug-free requirements listed below. We will apply the new guidelines regardless of date of service to all grant applications no matter when we receive the application, if provided by a qualified person.

  • Employee education - actual cost up to a maximum of $150 per hour: two hours for DFWP, one hour for DF-EZ. Annual refresher covered;
  • Supervisor training - actual cost up to a maximum of $150 per hour: four hours initially, two-hour refresher for DFWP, two hours initially, one-hour refresher for DF-EZ;
  • Employee Education Train-the-Trainer - Actual cost up to a maximum of $150 per hour: up to four hours for DFWP, three hours for DF-EZ.
    Note: We will only process complete applications. Applications must include all required forms (Section I, II, agreement, W-9, vendor form, service invoices and payment verification), or we will return the application to you. Also, we will no longer issue grants for services scheduled in the future.

Discontinued
Effective November 2008, the following services are no longer eligible for reimbursement under the Drug-Free Workplace Grant Program:

  • Development of a written substance policy;
  • Legal review of the company’s written substance policy;
  • Train-the-trainer class for supervisor training;
  • Assessment services if part of a BWC-approved consortium.

To begin the application process, simply download the SafetyGRANT$ Procedural Guide.

Note: Participation in the BWC SafetyGRANT$ DFWP, DF-EZ and safety intervention programs requires all grant recipients to verify by invoice/receipt and check copy that the grant money was used for the intended purposes. Failure to do so will result in disqualification from the grant program. BWC reserves the right to recover grant monies from disqualified grant recipients by one or more of the following methods:

  • Billing the employer for the grant money received;
  • Forwarding to the Ohio Attorney General for collection, set-off, recoupment or other legal remedy.

BWC expressly reserves the right to limit the amount of reimbursements and to set caps on such reimbursements for each and every specific reimbursable drug-free service.


For a list of the most recent grant recipients, visit our recipients' page.



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