Whether your company is initiating a safety program or looking to make the jump to a world-class program, the 2010 Safety Training Evaluation Process (STEP) will provide you with a valuable raod map to success.
Participating in STEP provides you with an opportunity to measure your company's safety program progress, seek ways to improve it, and benchmark your performance with fellow ABC members.
New for 2010, the STEP application can be completed online for all gold, silver, bronze and participant level and platinum applicants paying by credit card.
- Gives an organized approach to analyze and further develop your company's safety and loss prevention program.
- Offers an objective method to measure your company's safety program improvements from year to year.
- Enables you to benchmark your firm's safety record with similar companies and industry advantages.
- Provides your company with safety performance recognition that can be used as an improtant business development tool with potential clients.
- Helps reduce your company's incidence rates and day away, restricted or transferred (DART) rates.
- Helps lower your company's experience modification rate (EMR or "mod factor"), which can lower annual workers' compensation insurance rates.
Many of the enhancements to this year's STEP have come from member suggestions. This year, the ABC National Environment, Health and Safety Committee (EH&S), which oversees the STEP program, has updated and expanded category descriptions for each of the 20 key safety compnents. This initiative broadens STEP's usefulness to ABC member companies of all sizes, and provides a more descriptive set of criteria that can be used or program improvement.
Additionally, the Gold and Platinum level qualification criteria have been modified. Gold recognition now has an incidence rate qualification component, as well as a minimum self-scor. There is now an Experience Modification Rate (EMR) qualification for Platinum recoginition, and in addition, companies with fewer than 100 employees may use a three-year average to meet incidence rate qualification criteria. In addition, the one-year wait to qualify for Platinum level recognition has been dropped. Ther is also a new Diamond level for the very safety companies; participation at this level will be by invitation only in 2010.
ABC's goal is to help ABC members continuously advance their safety and training efforts and achieve a zero-incident workplace.