State Certified Safety Committee in PA

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Permalink Reply by Raymond Reiff on August 12, 2009 at 2:50pm

Had the audit today and it went well. To close the loop on this post the details. The auditor is pretty much tied to a script. He goes back 3 years on meeting minutes and the required annual training. Use to be you were either in compliance or not. Meaning if you missed one meeting in 3 years, you weren't in compliance with the program and had to reapply. Now they have a third option which is "mostly in compliance". Due to one paperwork item we expect to be in that group but we won't receive the final report for another 3 or 4 months. Yes, that's right. We were told by the auditor that it will take 3 or 4 months until we hear back from them. Time to get back to the real business of safety.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Taylor on August 13, 2009 at 2:17pm

Ray: could you elaborate on a state certified safety committee. Is it a state agency that does the certification of the committee and if so, which agency? What is the critieria for certification?

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Permalink Reply by Raymond Reiff on August 14, 2009 at 11:45am

It's run by the Department of Labor and Industry. The benefit of having a certified safety committee is a 5% discount on your workers compensation insurance. Here's a link to the information.

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