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Employeratlnjury Program (EAIP) <br />The State of Oregon's Employer at Injury Program is a program designed to encourage employers to return <br />employees to modified work when released by their physician. The incentive is that the Employer at Injury <br />Program will reimburse employers for one-half of the wages paid to the employees working qualifying <br />modified jobs fora period of up to 66 working days. The program will also assist with worksite modifications <br />and in purchasing equipment that enables employees to continue their jobs. Although the Workers' <br />Compensation Program processes the reimbursement requests, the funds are returned to the City <br />department employing the injured worker. These funds do not reduce the City's workers' compensation <br />experience since they are paid back to the department as a partial reimbursement of the modified duty wages <br />paid to the employee. In FY07, the Workers' Compensation Program recovered a total of $15,131 in EAIP <br />funds on behalf of Public Works. Over the past five years fiscal years $83,788 has been recovered on behalf of <br />Public Works. <br />Claims Summary by Division <br />The number of workers' compensation claims filed and total claims costs for FY07 are listed below for each <br />Public Works division. <br />ADMINISTRATION: There was one claim filed by a Public Works Administration employee in FY07 for a total <br />claims cost of $1,500. In the last five fiscal years there have been three claims filed <br />with a total incurred claims cost of $2,051, for an average of $684. <br />AIRPORT: There was one claim filed by an Airport employee in FY07 for a total claims <br />cost of $1,500. The average number of claims filed by Airport employees over the flue <br />year reporting period is three with a total incurred claims cost of $251,055 (95% of the <br />total is due to two Airport claims). <br />ENGINEERING: There was one claim filed by an Engineering <br />employee in FY07 for a total claims cost of $161. The total claims <br />costs for the last five fiscal years is $10,230 for an average claims <br />cost of $2,558. <br />MAINTENANCE: There were 16 claims filed by Maintenance <br />employees in FY07 which is the lowest number in the last five fiscal years and none of the <br />claims were disabling. There was a significant drop in the total claims costs to $16,941 <br />which is also the lowest amount in the last five fiscal years. The average cost per claim in <br />FY07 was $1,059. <br />'~ PARKS & OPEN SPACE: Parks & Open Space employees increased their <br />number of claims in FY07 to nine claims for a total claims cost of $29,313. <br />The average cost per claim in FY07 is $3,257 and the five year average <br />cost per claim is $2,467. <br />WASTEWATER: The number of claims filed by Wastewater employees in <br />FY07 doubled to 10 claims. However, none of those claims was disabling. <br />The total claim costs for FY07 is $6,550 for an average claim cost of $655. <br />The five year average cost per claim is $3,336. <br />SAFETY & LOSS CONTROL SERVICES <br />Safety & Loss Control staff continued to work with all Public Works Divisions <br />to provide a productive safety committee structure to address health and safety <br />concerns. Public Works has Safety Committees in the Administrative/ <br />Engineering, Wastewater, Maintenance, Parks & Open Space, and Airport <br />Divisions. Areas of emphasis included driver and vehicle safety, hazard <br />communications, safety inspections, ladder safety, hearing conservation, <br />noise level testing, and respiratory protection. <br />52 <br />