North Carolina Safety Award News (Cont.)

January 7th, 2007 Posted by Mark

You think you actually have a chance to win these North Carolina safety awards (see below)? In that case, you should get in touch the North Carolina Department of Labor pronto, through the Web, and request an application for the awards.

You could receive a gold or silver award if you win. The silver award means that you had an injury where the worker missed at least one full work day, not including the actual day that the worker got hurt. If you win the gold award, on the other hand, that means that you had a successful rate of lost workdays, including those days workers spent away from work and restricted work days.

You could also apply to win a million hour award. That is given out to companies that have had 1 million hours of work time logged at site without any injury that involves time away from work. You can win another award for each 1 million hours’ worth that you do not have an injury to a worker that keeps them away from work for a day or more.

Winning such awards, North Carolina employers, not only means that you are somewhere and somehow saving yourselves some money on workers’ comp rates, disability rates, and on workers’ time away from work and lost productivity in general. Winning such an award can mean that you stand out among your peers. Lord knows, you may start to get invited to speak at local safety conferences or even national workers’ comp conferences to share how you have been successful. In the very least, you silver or gold medal—or your 1 million awards—could be a valuable tool in helping you to recruit the best talent for workers and manager staff in your industry. Everyone wants to work somewhere that is safe.

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