Want to Keep People Safer? 3 Things to Look for In a Claims Management System

Keeping the people around us safe is always a priority. You follow safety codes, you employ the best procedures, but, you wonder, “Is there room for improvement?” Where can you find it?

There is help. A good web based claims system can help you learn from claims and incidents recorded throughout your program.

Do you know that with the right system technology, incidents can be tracked to improve your safety and prevent further accidents similar to past occurrences? A good web based insurance claims management system will allow you to capture accidents and incidents so as to be able to track them.

What should you look for in a claims management system?
A goal of all occupational safety programs should be to instill a safe work environment. This means you need to capture the right information associated with incidents.

A claims management system should include these three abilities:
1. Collection of all the incidents/accidents, locations, causes, parties involved, times, body parts and a full description. Being able to do this is primary in being able to define and impose programs of prevention in the future.
2. The ability to break down the hierarchy of your organization and the incidents that happen throughout. A claims management system that can do this will successfully monitor your program specific to individual departments and will assist in establishing measurable goals and objectives.
3. Allowing you to run ad hoc reports, in case standard reports are not providing you the information you are searching for.

You can only prevent accidents when you address the underlying causal factors causing accidents. You need to capture the necessary information to analyze your data.

Why would you need to relook at and resort data you’ve already systematized?
You may, over time, have events that are only occurring in one area of your business. Could there be incidents that seem disconnected, but always seem to involve someone’s hand. For example, it may not be the location, or so much what they are doing, but which staff are doing it. The larger the organization the less likely that someone would notice a pattern. Depending on “who” accidents are reported to or “how” they are reported there is a chance that the most likely person to see a pattern isn’t even aware accidents are happening.

You may find that your part time staff needs more training on equipment they infrequently use. It may come out that certain equipment is responsible for certain accidents that you have not been watching for. Being able to log all the information and sort it into meaningful groups is a job for a good claims management system.

Being able to run a new “ad hoc” report will allow you to consider connections between your data you may not have been set up to look for previously.

Want to be safer?
Then it’s important that you know there are claims management systems that can help you look for patterns in accidents because employing one will be your first step to making safety improvements.

Keeping the people around us safe is always a priority. You follow safety codes, you employ the best procedures, but, you wonder, “Is there room for improvement?” Where can you find it?

JDi Data Corporation has provided insurance claims software since 1992. JDi Data offers web based workers compensation software and also claims systems to administer property, casualty and general liability claims. JDi Data has built a reputation in quality claims management software with special emphasis on specialty lines and complex litigation.

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