Smallwood, J J (2002) Best practice workers' compensation insurance performance: The related issues. In: Greenwood, D (ed.) Proceedings of 18th Annual ARCOM Conference, 2-4 September 2002, Northumbria, UK.
Abstract
Legislation and / or standard conditions of contract require contractors and related stakeholders to obtain workers' compensation (WC) insurance, which is included in the cost of construction, product or service as a labour overhead. However, based upon the amount of claims relative to assessments, contractors and related stakeholders can either incur a loading, or receive a rebate on their premiums. Given that the receipt of rebate awards is a manifestation of 'best practice', the recipients of such awards constitute an ideal sample frame to investigate H&S performance related issues. A study was conducted among a mutual WC insurer’s rebate award recipients for a recent year, to investigate among other: the importance of traditional and non – traditional project parameters; the contribution by various aspects / interventions / stakeholders to the receipt of rebate awards, and their potential contribution to an improvement in H&S performance, and the manifestation of enhanced H&S performance. Notable and significant findings include: cost, productivity, quality and schedule are more important than H&S safe work procedures (SWPs), awareness, management commitment, first line supervision, legislation and worker participation predominate among the contribution by forty-five aspects / interventions / stakeholders to the receipt of rebate awards, and non – H&S benefits are more prevalent than H&S benefits in terms of the manifestation of improvement in H&S performance.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | health and safety; performance; rebate; workers compensation insurance |
| Index terms: | compensation, loading, supervision, insurance, best practice, workers' compensation, commitment, productivity, legislation, health and safety |
| Subjects: | economic analysis, legal systems, construction operations, psychology, control systems, dispute resolution, business, health safety and environment, employment law, management |
| Topics: | Legal Issues, Site Management, Organizational Design, Health and Safety, Business Strategy, Project Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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