Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 38, September 21, 2024
(a) A group
self-insurance fund shall maintain or provide an adequate accident and illness
prevention program and maintain records for this program for the 3 most current
fiscal years. The program shall contain the following elements:
(1) A safety policy statement.
(2) A designated accident and illness
prevention program coordinator.
(3)
An assignment of responsibilities for implementing and evaluating the accident
and illness prevention program.
(4)
Program goals and objectives.
(5)
Mechanisms for employee involvement, which may include establishment of a
workplace safety committee including a safety committee as described in
Subchapter F (relating to workplace safety committees).
(6) Employee accident and illness prevention
suggestion and communications programs.
(7) Methods for accident investigation,
reporting and recordkeeping.
(8)
Methods for determining and evaluating program effectiveness. These may
include:
(i) Comparison of the group
self-insurance fund incidence rate as derived using the OSHA/BLS formula to the
current, published OSHA/BLS industry-wide rate.
(ii) Comparison of the group self-insurance
fund injury and illness rates determined by means of a formula prescribed by
the Bureau to current, published Statewide rates by industry.
(iii) Experience modification
factor.
(iv) Loss ratio.
(v) Other methods used by group
self-insurance funds deemed appropriate by the Bureau.
(9) Protocols or standard operating
procedures, when applicable, to the workplace and worksite environments for:
(i) Electrical and machine
safeguarding.
(ii) Personal
protective equipment.
(iii) Hearing
and sight conservation.
(iv)
Lockout/tagout procedures.
(v)
Hazardous materials handling, storage and disposal procedures.
(vi) Confined space entry
procedures.
(vii) Fire prevention
and control practices.
(viii)
Substance abuse awareness and prevention policies and programs.
(ix) Control of exposure to bloodborne
pathogens.
(x) Preoperational
process reviews.
(xi) Other
protocols or standard operating procedures appropriate for members' workplace
and worksite operations.
(b) Group self-insurance funds shall maintain
records describing the comparison methods chosen from subsection (a)(8) for the
most current fiscal year and 2 preceding consecutive fiscal years. Those
records shall contain at a minimum:
(1) The
annual calculated rates for the methods chosen.
(2) A copy of the calculations used to
determine the annual rates.
(3) A
copy of the sources containing the complete data used in calculating the annual
rates.
This section cited in 34 Pa. Code §
129.454 (relating to reporting
requirements for applicants for group self-insurance fund
status).
