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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 purpose of the Safety Intervention Grant$ Program is to gather information about the effectiveness of
safety interventions so that BWC may share the results with Ohio employers. The 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. The program is designed
to work and partner with Ohio employers to establish safety intervention
best practices for accident and injury prevention.
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: typically used in healthcare to provide height adjustment or easier entry.
- Beds: powered height adjustable beds, including electric powered.
- Ceiling lifts: patient lifting devices mounted to the ceiling.
- Cranes/hoists: crane/hoist systems (i.e. jib, bridge, gantry, mobile, etc.). This does not prevent applications for improved controls, effectors, etc.
- Earth moving equipment: all earth moving equipment (i.e. skid steers, front-end loaders, bobcats, etc.)
- Exercise equipment: equipment used for the purpose of exercising.
- Floor cleaning equipment: floor scrubbers, waxers, buffers, vacuums, dryers or any other manual or powered device whose purpose is to clean, wax, buff, vacuum or dry a floor or walking surface.
- Floor-based patient-lifting devices: patient lifting devices that are portable and moved on the floor.
- Flooring/floor treatments: flooring or floor treatments that minimize slipping.
- Forklifts: passenger industrial vehicles with the ability to lift and move loads.
- Lift tables: stationary tables that can be raised, lowered, tilted, etc. to provide better working postures.
- Lighting: improvements in lighting used to make it easier for the employees to see.
- Patient ambulation devices: devices that people push along as they walk for support.
- Patient bathing and toileting chairs: devices that can be pushed into a shower and/or over a toilet.
- Patient scales: any scale intended to weigh a patient.
- Personal protective equipment: any equipment worn by a worker protecting him/her from harm or equipment associated with the equipment worn (e.g. tripod for body harness).
- Powered dolly equipment: any dolly equipment that can mechanically climb or descend on stairs.
- SawStops: saws designed to stop immediately when the blades come in contact with a person.
- Stair chairs/cots: equipment used to make it easier to move people up/down stairs.
- Standard guardrailing systems: guardrails for platforms, walkways, process areas, etc.
- Standard machine guarding devices and equipment: fixed barrier guards, perimeter guarding, radio frequency guarding, light curtains, pressure sensitive matting, etc.
- Stretchers: medical stretchers used for transporting people.
- Transfer tables: powered or manual tables that are used to make it easier to move products.
- Transplanters, taggers: powered equipment typically used in vegetation for easier planting.
- Vehicles: all driven vehicles including cars, trucks, utility vehicles, etc.
- Weaponry: all weapons including tasers.
To begin the application process, simply download the
SafetyGRANT$ Procedural Guide.
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.
Annual Reporting Forms
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.
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.
NOTICE: While employers enjoying group-experience-rating
discounts are NOT eligible to receive a DFWP discount in addition to the group
discount, they may be eligible to receive a DFWP grant as they are enrolled
in the drug-free discount program at level 1, 2 or 3, reporting payroll and
paying premium.
DFWP and DF-EZ grant program guidelines
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 guidelines regardless of the date of service to all grant
applications no matter when we receive the application, as long as a qualified
person provided the services.
- 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
$150 per hour: up to four hours for DFWP, three hours for DF-EZ.
Note: We will only process complete applications. Applications must
include all required forms (Section I, II, agreement, W-9, vendor form,
service invoices and payment verification), or we will return the application
to you. Also, we will no longer issue grants for services scheduled in the
future.
To begin the application process, simply download the SafetyGRANT$ 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 more information about SafetyGRANT$, call your local BWC customer
service office or 1-800-OHIOBWC, and follow the options.
For a list of the most recent grant recipients, visit our
recipients' page.
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