What Are Indirect Costs for Employers Due to Workplace Injury?

Did you know the average cost of a workplace injury costs an organization $7,500? While the direct costs may seem minimal, the indirect costs can be a lot more than the employers expect. Indirect costs can include lost productivity, production training for a replacement, and overtime pay for those employees replacing the injured out on leave.

How Can Injury Reporting Early Intervention Help?

Take a simple ligament sprain, for instance. If the employee reports his injury immediately, his treatment for the sprain will begin soon. With first aid measures, they will start with their healing process and return to work in an expedited manner. If left untreated, the employee's injury may worsen and often result in unnecessary testing, work releases, specialty referrals, and lost time away from work. In short, injury reporting helps both employees and employers in avoiding serious consequences.

What Are The Record-keeping Requirements?

Employers with more than ten employees are legally required to record and report all serious work-related injuries and illnesses with an exemption of specific low-risk industries. However, minor injuries require only first aid and do not need to be recorded. The recorded information helps employers, employees, and OSHA to evaluate workplace safety, understand and avoid workplace hazards, and implement worker protections to prevent, reduce, and eliminate future workplace injuries and illnesses.

What Is an Injury Report?

Recordable workplace injury and illness reporting are also known as Injury Reporting or Incident Reporting. Such workplace incidents include vehicle accidents, workplace injuries that require time off from work, chemical spills, and other similar workplace injuries.

Why Is Injury Reporting Important?

Reporting workplace accidents is the best way to address the employee's health problems and prevent such incidents in the future. A delay in treatment can increase an incident's risk and have a recordable outcome by 60 percent. With incident case management and quick injury reporting, every employee injury case is treated on time, so it doesn't progress and become worse. Even if your employees don't need medical care, injury reporting records the case, shows how it was managed, and helps create a workplace injury prevention plan for future incidents. After all, reporting injuries and illnesses is the best way to identify and to prevent workplace hazards. Benefits of a successful incident/injury reporting program include: 1. Preventing workplace injuries 2. Lower OSHA reporting and recordable outcomes 3. Fewer future workplace hazards 4. Increased productivity with less absenteeism 5. Greater employee satisfaction 6. Reduced workers' comp claims

How Soon Employers Have to Report an Injury to OSHA?

Any recordable injury and work-related fatalities should be reported within 8 hours of learning about it. Employees can only report fatalities within the last 30-days of a work-related incident leading to a casualty. Employers must report any inpatient hospitalization, amputation, or eye loss incidents within 24 hours of learning about it.

How Can Axiom Medical Help?

The Axiom Medical Incident Management and Injury Reporting Program will help employers like you to manage workplace accidents and injuries successfully. Our 24/7 Nurse Triage and Reporting hotline will help you and your people to report incidents in real-time, from anywhere and everywhere. Our team will make your job easier with simplified injury case management offering telephonic assessments and quick access to care with referrals and OSHA record-keeping.

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Injury Reporting Explained

Let us talk about injury reporting!

So, you know how accidents happen, right? They can happen anywhere, even at work! That is why Axiom Medical is here to help you and your company manage work-related incidents with our Injury Case Management Program.

Why Injury Reporting Is Important

Here’s why injury reporting is so important:

Immediate reporting leads to early intervention, which means your employee can get better faster and return to work sooner
Late reporting increases the likelihood of an OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) recordable outcome. Nobody wants that!
By reporting injuries, you can prevent future incidents and keep your workplace safe for everyone

Cost and Consequence of Late Reporting

Did you know a delay in injury report by even one day increases your chance of an OSHA recordable outcome by 60%?

It is true! Costs and consequences of late reporting include:

Injury exacerbation
Increased clinic and ER costs
Increased OSHA recordable outcomes
Lost productivity and time away from work
Training for replacement hires
Overtime cost for workforce coverage
Increased workers’ comp claims and insurance modification rate (EMR)
Decreased workplace morale

Outcomes You Can Expect with Axiom’s Injury Case Management

Now, let us talk about outcomes with Axiom!

You can expect:

Nationwide access to OSHA-trained licensed medical professionals 24/7
Immediate intervention with first aid measures
Increased productivity with less absenteeism
Better OSHA recordable outcomes
Reduced workers’ comp claims
Reduced clinic and ER costs
Improved employee experience, engagement, and culture

Axiom Medical Can Help

So, what are you waiting for? Start optimizing your injury outcomes with timely reporting and drive costs down while improving the health of your workforce.

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