Discipline Done Right: Turn those tough conversations into smart solutions!

Handling employee discipline can feel like walking a tightrope—one misstep can lead to legal risks, morale issues, or worse. In this interactive webinar, we’ll equip you with the strategies, best practices, and confidence to manage disciplinary actions fairly, legally, and effectively.

Join us to learn how to:

·      Address misconduct with clarity and confidence

·      Avoid legal pitfalls and compliance risks

·      Foster accountability while maintaining a positive workplace culture

There will be several offerings of the webinar in March, so keep an eye on your Inbox to secure your registration!

Birthdays & Anniversaries

March Birthdays!  

WISHING THESE AMAZING PEOPLE A GREAT DAY!! 

Stephanie Doherty	March 2
Michael Smith	March 6
Al Spurling	March 11
Gina Moyer	March 18
Jamie Bryant	March 20
Michael Edwards	March 31

March Workiversaries!   

WE ARE SO GLAD YOU’RE CAREER JOURNEY BROUGHT YOU TO RRI WEST!

Bikas Shrestha	March 5	33 years!
Terry Fitch	March 8	26 years!
Brittany Burch	March 9	13 years!
Kevin Furst	March 16	15 years!
Tamara Ross	March 23	10 years!
Jeremy Allen	March 29	4 years!

OSHA 2024 WRAP UP!

P&C sent out your OSHA 300a logs at the end of last week.  Please make sure you are posting these if you’ve not already done so.  Under OSHA regulations, the logs must be posted from 2/1/2025 to 4/30/2025.  Don’t worry… we’ll remind you in April when you can officially take them down.  

Year end Results: We do great at keeping our employees safe!  Some stats for you in 2024:

• 8 Work Comp Incidents (notice only)

• 23 Work Comp Claims (both categories went up slightly from 2023)

• Top 3 kinds of claims:

  • Cut / Lacerations: 6

  • Slip / Trip / Fall: 5

  • Needlesticks: 3

• Total medical paid in 2024: $10,079.08

  
  

One area of improvement we can make – and that we ask of you – is making sure that any medical notes, documentation, etc. that is related to a workers compensation claim gets sent to your P&C team so that we can make sure it gets uploaded into the record appropriately and timely. This will help with our monthly review of claims and, certainly, at the year end. 

When does an “incident” become a claim?  Your job as the GM is to make sure you are entering any employee incidents into RM Pro.  That triggers the information to be funneled to the P&C team (and our awesome safety consultants at Lockton) so that the case can be reviewed.  Tamara and Stephanie will determine if the incident should be “flipped” to a claim and officially sent to Sedgwick, our workers compensation insurance carrier.  According to OSHA, here are reasons that determine a claim:

• Days missed away from work

• Job duty restrictions

• Medical treatment beyond first aid

• Needlestick or cut from a sharp contaminated with blood or other potentially infectious material

• Removal from the worksite for medical reasons

• Tuberculosis infection

• Substantive hearing loss

• Death

• Loss of consciousness

Let’s keep safety top of mind in 2025!