GRIP on Safety Excellence Award

Yes, GRIP encourages all members to participate in the program. The program can be used to identify performance gaps and improve your overall safety program.

Any GRIP Retro member who meets the underwriting requirements of the GRIP retro program, has a total recordable incident rate (TRIR) 25% below the Washington State average based on NAICS Code for most current year, has an EMR at or below 0.8, has not had an employee in-patient hospitalization or fatality in the last three years or in application year, has not received a serious, willful or repeat L&I citation in the last three years or in application year, has achieved a performance score of 90%+ by deadline, and has been reviewed by the program administrator.

Any GRIP Retro member actively enrolled and in good standing, has EMR at or below 0.8, has not had fatalities or in-patient hospitalizations companywide over the past two years or in application year, has not received a serious, willful or repeat L&I citation in the last two years, or in application year, and has submitted an application form with a score of 85% or greater by the application deadline.

Any GRIP member actively enrolled and in standing, has an EMR at or below 0.9, has not had a fatality or in-patient hospitalizations companywide over the past year, or in application year, has not received a serious, willful or repeat, L&I citation in the last year or in application year, and has submitted an application form with a score of 75% or greater by the application deadline.

Although you scored at a high level, you may have not met all the underwriting requirements for GOLD level. For example, your EMR may have been higher than what is required for the GOLD level or another company was chosen because they performed better during the review process.

Contact ERNwest at safety@ernwest.com, who can assist you.

Frequency rate can be calculated by the # of OSHA recordable injuries x 200,000/total manhours worked or click here to go to the BLS incident rate calculator and comparison tool.

No, completing an application will not guarantee a citation-free DOSH visit.

The program administrator will review all applications forms. 

GRIP encourages each company to engage as many employees as possible in the process. Consider using operations, human resources, safety managers, or safety committee members and employees in the process.

No, however companies who actively participate are more than likely to have lower insurance and workers’ compensation costs.

Yes, the information contained in each application form is viewed only by a program administrator and is kept confidential.

Companies who achieve the highest self-performance score will be contacted by the program administrator for a comprehensive onsite program review of their safety program.

A safety review will only be scheduled for companies who meet the GOLD level criteria.  Those that do meet the highest standard, will be asked to schedule a date for a formal safety program review.  The review will include, checking and verifying documentation to objectively confirm elements are in place, employee and supervisor interviews on safety practices, meeting with owner and site walk-through of project or location.

Yes, all companies who submit application forms that meet the specific program criteria outlined at a minimum will receive a certificate for participating and achieving their safety status level that can be posted at your place of employment and will be mentioned in GRIP communications and newsletters.

Tie breakers will be determined by reviewing the employers’ workers compensation 3-year loss ratio.  The company with the best overall loss ratio for that period will be chosen.