Susie McGee

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Susie McGee

LAF Report (Loss Analysis Form)
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LAF Report Round 1

• How did we evaluate the process?
• We looked for the following
• How many reports met the requirement,
• How many of those reports we received and
• How fully each form was completed.

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LAF Report Round 1

• What is the reporting requirement?
• LAFs are required on anything that hits the ACIG
  claims system with an indemnity reserve.

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LAF Report Round 1

• ACIGs overall results for 6/1/04 - 5/31/05
• 290 Claims met the criteria for reports
• 246 LAFs received
• 85 compliance ratio

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LAF Report Round 1

• How we evaluate the percentage of completion
• How many answers 40 per form
• (11600 for all 290)
• How many answers were answered percentage of
  completion
• 10788 answers for the 246 forms
• Overall average 93

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LAF Report Round 1

• Most frequently missing information
• Drivers Licenses
• Height/Weight
• Orientation Information
• Project Information
• Supervisor name

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LAF Report Round 1

• So what can we really do with all this
  information?
• How many lower back indemnity claims do you think
  ran through ACIGs RiskMaster system between
  6/1/04-05?
• How many knee indemnity claims did we see in the
  same time frame?

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LAF Report round 1

• Lower backs
• Who says
• 53
• 77
• 101

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LAF Report Round 1

• The answer is
• 77
• And the total incurred costs
• expense, medical and indemnity
• 2,520,831
• The average cost per claim
• 32,738

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LAF Report Round 1

• How about the knees?
• Who says.
• 22
• 36
• 71
• 94

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LAF Report Round 1

• The answer is
• 36
• And the total incurred costs
• expenses, indemnity and medical
• 1,158,297
• Average cost per claim
• 32,175

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LAF Report Round 1

• Knees
• 15 Strains
• 2 Fractures
• 12 Sprains
• 6 Contusions
• 1 Inflammation

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LAF Report Round 1

• Lower Backs
• 65 Strains
• 3 Sprains
• 7 Contusions
• 1 Fracture
• 1 Multiple Physical Injuries

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LAF Report Round 1

• Causes for back strains
• 23 of the 65 Strains were due to lifting.
• 8 were due to slip/trip and falls
• The average years of experience for those injured
  lifting was 9.
• The age of experience ranged from 1 month to 25
  plus years

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LAF Report Round 1 - Goals

• The goals of the LAF
• 1. Look at the statistics,
• age, experience, orientation, day of the week,
  supervisor or project
• Are there trends that can assist you in training
  the field operations?

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LAF Report Round 1- Goals

• Take the time to truly analyze the facts
• utilizing your safety committees for discussion
  as to the facts looking for prevention
• Partnership between claims and safety personnel.
  What are the claims saying and how can that be
  used for training
• Understanding the true costs of the claim, the
  full iceberg effect

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LAF Report Round 1 - Goals

• Utilizing the root cause analysis training
• Learning the true barrier to safe acts and
  safe/profitable jobs
• Showing your general work force that you do care
  and will give all efforts to prevent the
  incidents from being repeated

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LAF Report Round 1 - Goals

• Project Life Saver
• Reduction in costs is truly a reduction in
  personal injuries to the greatest commodity of
  any employer
• Understanding the trends, whatever they may be,
  creates a proactive opportunity on a daily basis

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LAF Report Round.

• We will produce a quarterly report.
• The report will be the same - how many did we get
  and how well were they done.
• The trending reports are yours for the asking.
• You want more detail, tell us.
• A sample for each ACIG member is available today.

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LAF Report Round

• We now have an automated request to remind you of
  the need of the form.
• This request is triggered when a claim with an
  indemnity reserve hits our claims system.
• When we receive the report we tag the claim.
• If we do not receive the claim within 30 days, we
  will send a reminder.
• We are trying to make this easy.

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LAF Report Round

• LAFs are valuable when used.
• If the information requested is given, the future
  detail for loss prevention is incredible.
• It is a tool.
• ACIG believes it is a viable tool for our goal of
  Project Life Saver.